After Rebirth The Scums All Cry For Forgiveness novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: Hands You Can Trust

By seven in the morning the video had two million views.

I read the comments standing at the kitchen window with a cup of tea going cold in my hand.

*Quack.*

*Arrested her yet?*

*Poor kid, trapped in a house with that psycho.*

Someone had found my face and posted it next to a photo of a doctor in handcuffs.

Rowan rolled into the kitchen behind me.

He had put his shirt on wrong, and the collar stuck up.

I had never seen him anything but perfect.

"Don't read them," he said.

"It's forty seconds long."

"I know. I've watched it a dozen times." He stopped beside me. "The hand shoving him is a hand pushing a patient flat so you can place a needle. The cut starts a second before and ends a second after. Someone edited it very well."

"Delphine can't edit video."

"She doesn't have to. Leland has people."

I put the cup down.

"I could release the one from the corridor," he said. "Leland and the handkerchief."

"Not yet."

"Why not?"

"Because they'd say it was a kitchen mistake. I want him to lose in front of someone he can't buy."

He studied my face.

Then he nodded slowly.

A sound reached us from outside.

At first I thought it was rain.

Then I heard doors.

I went to the window and looked down at the gate.

There were sixty people standing in the road.

They had come in cars and in pickup trucks and on a small yellow bus.

A woman in a green coat was holding a sign made out of a cardboard box lid.

It said, *SHE FIXED MY HUSBAND'S HAND.*

I knew her.

I had not seen her in two days, and it felt like years.

Her husband was beside her, in a baseball cap, waving his right hand at the house as hard as he could.

"Rowan," I said. "That's my grandfather's waiting room."

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