The Beast on Her Leash novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Hearing
On Monday morning, the hall outside Courtroom 4 was full of tow-truck drivers.
They wore their yard jackets with CROWE INDUSTRIAL on the back.
There were more than a hundred of them, in work boots, standing shoulder to shoulder against the marble walls.
When Bram came through the doors in his black suit, they took off their caps.
It was done without any signal, one cap and then twenty, a rustle down the hall.
Bram stopped.
A heavyset man with a gray mustache stepped out of the line.
He looked at his boots, and then at Bram.
"Eleven years I drove behind that truck," he said gruffly. "I never asked where it went. I should've."
"You didn't know," said Bram.
"I knew something. Thank you for saying it."
He held out a hand, and Bram took it.
Nobody cheered.
They filled the benches in silence, row upon row.
The courtroom had an old paneled ceiling and a judge with reading glasses on a chain.
Lyle sat at the defense table in a county jumpsuit and a haircut that had lost its sparkle.
His lawyer was a tall woman in a gray suit, and she had not stopped frowning since she sat down.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The Beast on Her Leash are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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