His Love Was My Poison novel · Chapter 33 of 48
Chapter 33: The Hearing
Micah turned the television off with the remote, very slowly.
"He wants to grow up just like the woman who ruined my life," he repeated.
"Don't."
"I'm not doing anything. I'm saying it out loud so it's real, and then I'm going to hit something soft."
My phone rang before he could.
Royce said he had watched the interview in his study, with Kit in the next room.
Kit had come to the doorway when it ended.
"He asked me why she said that about you. I said I didn't know."
His voice was low.
"Then he asked if she was proud of him. I said yes."
"Is she?"
"I think she's proud of the photograph."
I didn't say anything for a moment.
"June fourteenth," Royce said. "The hearing is at ten. Will you come?"
"I'll be there."
The courthouse in Lexington was brick, with white columns and a bell tower.
I had walked past it a hundred times when I was twenty-one and never gone in.
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