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Continue to Prologue → THE DESIGNATED VILLAIN — The strange thing about becoming the villain in someone else’s story is that nobody sends a notice. There is no trial, no verdict, and no official declaration. It happens the way weather changes: gradually, quietly, one degree at a time—until you look up and realize you are standing under an entirely different Texas sky. When she arrived at the family farm, she wasn’t looking for war. She was looking for home. A simple, ordinary place where hard work yielded tangible results, fences stayed fixed, and family meant protection. But underneath the idyllic exterior lay a silent emotional economy operating on an unspoken rule: whenever a system collapses under its own internal anxieties, it doesn’t seek self-examination. It seeks a target. From missing tools to dead poultry, every systemic failure suddenly found the exact same mailing address. Every explanation was treated as resistance; every silence became proof of guilt. She ...