TESSA
After Zane had handed the papers over to me, I had gone home, I didn’t walk, I floated. But it was not in triumph, neither was it in relief because I was just… numb. And it felt like the floor didn’t really exist under my feet.
It was even Justin, my lawyer that had driven me to my bus stop after the whole saga that had gone down with Zane at the courthouse.
I held onto the documents that had been given back to me like they were made of glass. The papers that once took everything from me had finally found their way back. My name, my mother’s legacy, my company… it was all back to being mine again.
And yet the victory didn’t feel the way that I thought it would. The minute the door shut behind me, I dropped everything that I was holding and sank to the floor with my back agai
