Reborn: I Let My Mother Suffer the Price of Her Favoritism novel · Chapter 28 of 32

Chapter 28: Why the Bed

Callie's POV

I testified for two hours on the fourth morning, and the prosecutor did not let me cry once.

She walked me through the hallway wall and the hot tea, and the three dinners with a bruise under my makeup.

She walked me through the west room, and the paring knife, and the call I made.

I said it all in the plain order it happened.

I did not say anything about a first life, because nobody in that room could use it, and I had promised myself I would only tell what a jury could weigh.

"No further questions," the prosecutor said, and sat.

The defense lawyer rose and took his time buttoning his jacket.

He had been patient all week, but there was nothing patient in him now.

"Mrs. Lund."

"Haldane is fine."

"Miss Haldane. On the afternoon of the wedding eve your sister put your head through a hallway wall."

"She slammed it into the wall."

"And you said nothing. You didn't call the police. You didn't tell your fiancé."

"No."

"But that same evening you asked your mother to sleep in the bridal suite."

"Yes."

"The big west bedroom, with the good bed."

"Yes."

"The bed you were meant to sleep in."

"Yes."

"You also stood in the upstairs hall that night with your phone recording."

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