Stepdad and His Friends Bred Me During the Birthday Blackout novel · Chapter 44 of 48
Chapter 44: The Truth, Again
On the twentieth the courthouse steps in Prescott were full of people in good coats.
I counted too many to count, and I'm bad at math.
Forty members of the Copper Room had driven up in carpools and one rented van.
The cook was there in a church dress.
The woman with the silver bob was there, with a cane I'd never seen, and she took the seat directly behind our table without asking anyone.
The apprentice from Renner Electric had borrowed a tie.
"It's a public hearing," Breck whispered, delighted. "She asked for it herself."
Dorothea came in last, with her lawyer.
She stopped at the end of the aisle.
I watched her read the gallery. Forty strangers in wool and silk, filling every row on our side and spilling into hers.
She had asked for an open court so the room could see the Third Floor.
The room had come to see her.
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