Just when Margaret believed the past had finally settled, the peace of their home was shattered again. Three weeks before the court hearing, the security gate buzzer rang unexpectedly. Margaret assumed it was a delivery truck bringing supplies for her tea business. Instead, she saw Vanessa standing outside accompanied by a lawyer. Vanessa looked older but carried the same cold confidence Margaret remembered. After entering the house, she immediately presented legal papers demanding full custody of the twins. Margaret felt her stomach tighten as she read the document. Vanessa argued that Margaret only had temporary guardianship and that as the biological mother she now had the right to reclaim her children. When Margaret contacted her own lawyer, he warned that courts sometimes favored biological parents who claimed they had reformed their lives.
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