Chapter 14 - Flashback To The Night They Cast Me Out Forever
Memory flashed back to the rainy night twelve years ago when I returned home on my first military leave in uniform.
Dad had taken one look at the forged discharge letters Luke planted on his desk and ordered me out of the house.
“We don't need a liar under our roof bringing shame to this family name,” Dad had shouted over the sound of thunder.
Mom stood by the kitchen island, refusing to look me in the eye as she asked if I only came back because I needed money.
I had walked out into the rain that night without a single dollar, carrying my duffel bag toward a Greyhound bus station.
That was the exact moment Catherine Sterling died, and Commander C. Sterling was born from the ashes of rejection.
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Now, standing in the federal courthouse hallway, the circle of accountability was finally complete.
“You made your choice twelve years ago, and I made mine,” I told them quietly. “Now live with the consequences.”
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