He Abandoned Our Wedding, I Destroyed His Life novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Discovery
"He knew," Finn said.
He said it again on the train to New York nine days later, staring out the window at Connecticut.
"He knew in April. Before she sued. He knew, and he filed anyway."
"We don't know what's on it."
"We know he took it and deleted it. You don't delete the part that helps you."
I didn't argue with him.
He was right.
The hearing was on a Thursday, in the same courtroom on Centre Street.
My father had asked me that morning, at breakfast in the hotel, whether I wanted to argue it.
"You know the log better than I do," he said. "And he'll hate it more."
"Is that a legal reason?"
"It's a fatherly one."
So when the judge looked over her glasses and said, "Defense, it's your motion," I was the one who stood up.
Chris sat at the plaintiff's table in his charcoal suit.
Jade sat behind him in the front row of the gallery, in the boot.
A little cluster of her followers had taken the train in to support her.
One of them had a sign in her lap that said JUSTICE FOR JADE in pink glitter.
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