When Love Walked Away novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Friday
Courtroom 4C smelled of carpet cleaner and cold coffee.
I sat at the left table in the navy suit I wore to fire people.
My lawyer sat beside me, a woman with reading glasses on a chain and no patience at all.
Gabe sat in the first row behind us, in a collared shirt that still had the fold lines from the package.
Across the aisle, Brodie sat beside the narrow man in the gray suit.
Gladys sat in the row behind them with her handbag in her lap and her pearls on.
She did not look at me once.
"All rise," the bailiff said.
The judge was a woman in her sixties with short white hair and a face that gave nothing away.
She read for a full minute before she looked up.
"This is an emergency petition about the burial of a five-year-old girl," she said. "Mr. Dalton's attorney, go ahead."
The narrow man stood and buttoned his jacket.
"Your Honor, on the day in question, Mrs. Dalton was in a meeting and ignored four calls from her own child."
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