Ex-Convict Nanny and Billionaire Single Dad novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Vacated
The courtroom on the ninth floor had wood paneling and one tall window full of gray May sky.
I sat at the defense table in a white blouse Dot had ironed twice.
My lawyer was a woman with silver hair whom Nate had found for me after I asked him.
I'd asked. Out loud. In his kitchen, with Lulu listening.
In the first row of the gallery sat the family from Mercer Island.
The mother in her camel coat. The father in a tie.
The boy between them swung his feet, a swim-team ribbon pinned to his collar for the judge to see.
Nate sat behind them with Dot.
At the other end of the row, alone, sat my mother.
She was out on bail.
She'd been fired from the church in April, and she'd come anyway, in a gray dress, with her purse on her knees.
Nobody had sat within three seats of her.
The side door opened.
A deputy brought my sister in.
Orange jumpsuit. Hair in a plain braid. Hands cuffed in front of her.
She'd asked the judge in April not to release her before sentencing.
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