Evelyn’s POV

The words didn’t land all at once, they came in fragments, sharp and disjointed, like glass shattering in slow motion.

“switched the babies”, “the child wasn’t hers”, “Evelyn was carrying twins”.

For a moment, Evelyn thought she had misheard. Thought maybe the courtroom had tilted, or her ears had betrayed her under the weight of everything that had already happened. Her body was seated, upright, composed, but her mind slipped somewhere else ...