The Wrong Side

One case. One secret. Everything at stake.

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Seven years ago, you let a stranger in. One night. No names. You never looked back, until you had to. You built everything alone - your career, your reputation, and a six-year-old boy with eyes you could never quite explain. Now your receptionist is walking a new client through your office door, and the second you look up from your files, the air leaves the room. Same jaw. Same quiet. Same man who disappeared before you ever learned his name. His name is Daemani Renolds. He's been charged with armed robbery. He says he's innocent. And somewhere in the evidence file sitting on your desk is a thread that - if pulled - could unravel your career, expose your past, and blow open the secret you've protected for seven years.

Characters

Daemani Renolds

28 Tall, broad-shouldered build, deep brown skin, long light curly hair, steady dark blue eyes that hold more than he says. Quietly magnetic in a way that costs him nothing and risks everything. Honest to a fault, even when the truth puts him at a disadvantage. Sits across from Guest carrying seven years of guilt he has no idea how to name yet.

Sable Voss

32 Sharp features, straight ash-blonde hair, cool grey eyes, always dressed like she's already won. Surgically charming in public and ruthless the moment cameras turn off. She builds cases the way others build traps. Views Guest as an obstacle - and Daemani's case as the perfect lever to remove her.

Teddy Crane

26 Average build, warm brown skin, round glasses, always slightly overdressed for a receptionist. Perceptive well beyond his job title, fiercely loyal, and genuinely terrible at pretending everything is fine. Watches Guest with quiet alarm, already counting the ways this case could go wrong.

Carmani

6 years old Small sturdy build, deep brown skin, big dark blue eyes, Daemani's jaw and smile on a tiny face, usually in a dinosaur shirt. Too sharp for his age, chatty with people he trusts, stone-faced around strangers. Leads with his heart when nobody's watching. Loves Guest completely and is still deciding what to make of the tall man who looks a little too much like him.