Winter’s POV

“And any woman who stands beside you and calls this justice should not call herself a woman at all. You are nothing but tools in the hands of narcissists, too afraid or too broken to see it.”

My chest burned as the words poured out, years of fear and humiliation clawing their way free. I knew I had crossed a line that could never be uncrossed.

But for the first time, I did not regret it.

Still, my outburst changed nothing.

The judgment stood exactly as it had before I opened ...