The Famous Mafioso Hired Me to Hear Him, and the Man in the Cell Is Not Who They Convicted novel · Chapter 12 of 24

Chapter 12: For the Record

Gianna Brancato sat at the end of the steel table in a navy suit, with her ringed hands folded on the wood and a smile that did not move.

It was Monday, and the deposition had been moved from the lake prison to the front room of the house on Hertel Avenue, where a camera on a tripod faced a plain chair, and the red light was on.

The lawyer sat to my left with her legal pad and her lapel pin.

Two guards stood by the door.

Teo sat across from me in his gray shirt with his hands in his lap and his ankle monitor showing under the cuff of his slacks.

My father had gone home on Saturday, but the Deaf club had not.

I had seen the pickup truck at the end of the street that morning, and a second one behind it.

I did not know what they meant to do.

I knew they had come.

"We will begin with the last question," Gianna said.

She said it to the camera, in the warm voice she used with bakery customers.

"My husband has waited a very long time to answer it."

The lawyer cleared her throat.

"Miss Dunphy."

I looked at her.

She did not meet my eyes.

She was looking at her pin, and her hand was shaking.

I realized that she did not want to be here.

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