He Made Her His Bride to Punish Me for Jealousy novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: Thirty-One Days
The petition said I had followed Margo for six weeks, screamed at her in public and sent her threatening messages from an unknown number.
I had never sent her one message from anywhere.
The only exhibit was the twenty-second video from her birthday dinner, and the hearing was ten days away.
Constance's lawyer read all thirty pages at her dining table on Friday morning with a red pen.
She was a small, brisk woman in a grey suit, and she finished on the last page and set the pen down.
"It's thin," she said. "It's mean, and it's thin."
"Thin enough to lose?" I asked.
"Thin enough to win, if you have the messages Dawson forwarded and a witness who can say you never contacted her."
"I have the messages."
"Then bring them. And do not say one word in that courtroom except yes, no and thank you."
My mother, at the end of the table with her tea, said, "That last part's going to be hard for her."
"Mom."
"I'm only saying."
Constance's housekeeper, a new one, a young woman in a blue cardigan, came in with the morning mail on a silver tray.
She set it down by Constance's elbow.
"This was hand-delivered, ma'am," she said. "There's one for Miss Hargrove as well."
It was a cream envelope with a gold seal.
I turned it over.
My name was written in Margo's perfect handwriting, the handwriting that had labeled every seating card at my own wedding.
Inside was a card on heavy paper.
Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Thornbury request the pleasure of your company at a reception in celebration of their marriage. The Providence Biltmore Club. Saturday, the twenty-first, at six o'clock. All families welcome.
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