Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Wide Awake
Gage read the text over my shoulder in the dark.
"You don't have to," he said.
"I know."
I typed my answer with four men breathing around me.
No. If he has something to say to me, he can say it in open court, in front of everyone.
Then I put the phone face down and slept until seven.
Nobody touched me.
The courtroom was on the eighth floor of the county courthouse in downtown Phoenix.
Every bench was full.
Reporters. Two news cameras at the back. Women from the club in their tennis whites, who'd come to see.
My mother sat on my left in a navy dress.
Gage sat on my right in his class A uniform, because he'd said he wanted his father to see it.
Kipp, Zane and Torin filled the row behind us.
The detective sat at the end of the aisle in her gray suit.
They brought Dwight in through a side door at nine.
Orange jumpsuit. Chains at his wrists and ankles.
He'd lost weight. The golf tan was gone.
His silver hair had grown over his collar, and nobody had combed it back.
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