(Caroline's POV)
A day before the hearing, I stand outside the villa Samuel put Hailey in—a nice place, nicer than she deserves but less than she probably wanted—for a full ten minutes, arguing with myself.
This is crazy. I know Hailey will never help me. She's the reason I'm in this mess in the first place.
But tomorrow is the custody hearing. And despite everything Jasmine has compiled, despite the documentation and the witnesses and the evidence, I'm scared. I'm terrified that Samuel's money and lawyers and public relations machine will take Charlie away from me.
So I force myself to come out to see her behind Aunt Jasmine.
When I knock, she answers the door in a silk robe, her hair messy, a glass of wine in her hand at four in the afternoon. She looks at me like I'm something that
