Quieter Than Triumph

Chapter 269. What Comes After.

SIENNA

The judge granted emergency temporary custody on a Tuesday morning, over the phone, in a hearing that lasted eleven minutes.

Zainab had warned me it would be fast, given the circumstances, given a public park full of witnesses and a six-year-old's stitches and a father already in custody facing charges that made the custody question almost an afterthought, the