That is what they did to Gaby.

Not a blow.

A slow rewiring of a woman’s own mind against herself.

And that is why recovering her house was the easy part, and recovering her belief in her own worth was the work of a year, because you can reverse a fraudulent deed with a court order in an afternoon, but you cannot reverse a year of that reconditioning with anything but time, and love, and the patient, repeated proof that the verdict was always a lie.

Chapter 9 — The Smear