Redeemed

My father always used to tell me that I would change the world…

When I finally started law school, he was so excited.

He kept my acceptance letter in his wallet.

Showed it to strangers on the subway.

Even told his coworkers that his little girl was going to be a world-class lawyer one day.

Six weeks later, he had a heart attack.

The development company who owned our building decided it was worth more with us gone.

I found him on the fourth-floor landing.

Still in his work boots.

Still carrying the letter he’d written begging them for more time.

But they never wrote back.

I buried him four days before we had to be out.

I was forced to drop out of law school.

Work three jobs.

And hold my mother through countless panic attacks.

I spent the next ten years rebuilding my life from the wreckage of that notice.

Now I’m one semester away from finishing what I started.

And I’m in love with a man who looks at me like I’m the best thing that ever happened to him…

Someone who makes me believe I deserve something good.

Then a case file lands on my desk…

Thirty-seven families facing the same nightmare I did.

Same tactics.

Same company name.

Devlin Holdings.

I open the documents ready to fight—and find Archer’s signature on the authorization memos.

The man who tells me he loves me everyday, is the same man who signed my father’s life away.

And he knew who I was the entire time.