My Father Went to Prison for Their Money, So I Married Their Heir novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: The Hearing
Sabra's POV
The courtroom on the eleventh of October held a hundred and ten seats, and by eight in the morning there were two hundred people in it.
They stood along the back wall and sat on the radiators.
They filled the hallway outside, in church jackets and union caps, leaning on canes.
Opal had come at six, in her good hat, and held the second row for the whole street.
"I brought a thermos," she told me. "Don't make that face. They'll want coffee."
The judge was a tired woman with reading glasses on a chain, and she looked at the gallery for a long time.
"Is this a hearing or a revival?" she said.
Nobody laughed, but somebody in the back said amen.
Winston's lawyer went first.
He was a smooth man in a three-thousand-dollar suit.
He walked the court through the contract I had signed in a boathouse a year ago.
He read the five terms aloud.
He read them slowly, so the room could hear each one in my own handwriting.
"Twelve months," he said. "Separate rooms. No touching in private. This was no marriage, Your Honor. It was an arrangement for a purpose, entered under false pretenses, to secure a fortune."
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