I never told my in-laws that I was the Chief Justice’s daughter. When I was seven months pregnant…

“See?” David asked with a cruel, shark-like grin. “You have no witnesses. Har

I’ll have you locked up, Anna.

I’ll say you’re mentally unstable. Postpartum psychosis before you’re even born.

I’ll lock you up in a prison where no one will hear you scream. You’ll never beat me. I know the bylaws. I know the loopholes.

I looked at him. I really looked at him. I saw the cheap suit. The desperate ambition. The smallness of his soul.

“You’re right, David,” I said. My voice was calm, but it wasn’t shaking. “You know the bylaws.”

I sat up, leaning against the cabinets.

“But you don’t know who wrote them.”

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