Jack’s POV
I stared at Mason’s phone screen, rereading the news headline over and over again, trying to process the reality of it.
BREAKING: Margaret Bennett Files for Custody of Ellie Carter—Claims Biological Parents Are Unfit.
Margaret, sitting in a jail cell, had managed to strike again.
Rose sat across from me, gripping a steaming cup of coffee so tightly that her knuckles were pale. She hadn't said much since Mason dropped the news, but the storm brewing behind her eyes was volcanic.
“We need a strategy,” Mason said, scrolling through the article. “The media is already running wild with this. Margaret’s legal team is painting her as the ‘concerned guardian’ who raised Ellie while her biological mother ‘abandoned’ her and her father was ‘absent.’”
Rose let out a bitter laugh, sha
