I Logged In As The CEO's Mother And Crushed His Favorite Girl novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: Three Years and Six Months

"Let them say it," Holly said.

The elevator doors opened. She stepped in and held them for me.

Chase stood in the lobby with his hands in his pockets and watched them close.

The trial opened the second week of September in a wood-paneled courtroom downtown.

The gallery was full.

Reporters. Half the executive floor of Pembroke Tower, on their lunch hour.

The foreman and four of his crew sat in a row in clean shirts.

Brielle sat at the defense table in a pale pink suit, with her hair in a soft low bun.

She looked like a kindergarten teacher.

Her lawyer was a silver-haired man with a gentle voice who touched her shoulder every time he stood up.

Holly testified on the second morning.

She wore gray and flat shoes and kept her hands folded on the rail.

She told the storm the way it happened. The hard hat on one finger. The black sky. The pit.

She didn't cry.

The prosecutor sat down.

Brielle's lawyer stood and smiled at her.

"Mrs. Pembroke," he said. Holly had taken Ellis's name. "You'd been engaged to Chase Pembroke since January?"

"Yes."

"And you knew he was close to my client."

"Everyone knew."

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