I had a daughter to protect.

So I chose the strength that looks like weakness, the patience that looks like defeat, the silence that looks like surrender — and I held the bucket steady, day after day, while two arrogant people filled it, drop by drop, with the proof of what they were.

And when it was full, I did not spill a drop.

I carried it, quietly, into a courtroom, and poured it out all at once.

Chapter 10 — Mira