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My six-year-old nephew dragged his broken leg across seven blocks of pavement to reach my porch, with his starving three-year-old sister clinging to his shirt. I was fixing a loose hinge when I heard scraping on the steps and turned to see Drew crawling toward me, pale, shaking, and whispering, “She locked us downstairs again.” I called 911 before I even understood the whole story. But when he told me about Reena’s punishment room, I knew my brother had died believing a terrible lie.

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are you giving it to me?”

She stared through the open doorway into the house.

“Because yesterday Gerald told Aaron that once the baby was born, he could use custody to force you to negotiate.”

My blood turned cold.

Patricia pressed the drive into my hand.

“He said a mother with fraud allegations and unstable finances could lose her child.”

“I don’t have continue reading …

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