He Thought I Was Deaf, I Heard Everything novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: The Notebooks

Tobias's fingers opened.

Peter lifted his hand off his, and the red marks of the grip stood out on my wrist.

The detective reached the dais and took Tobias by the arm.

"Tobias Schuyler," she said, clear enough for every microphone left on the steps, "you're under arrest for attempted murder."

He laughed.

It was a thin, wild sound, and the cameras swallowed it whole.

"On what? A recording? You have nothing."

"I have a recording, a cracked phone, a carrier log and a woman who has agreed to testify. Turn around."

He turned.

The cuffs closed on his wrists with a small metal sound.

Four hundred phones lifted at once to film him.

He looked over his shoulder as they walked him down the steps, and for the first time he looked at me without a single pretense.

I did not look away.

The next morning at ten, a court marshal and a locksmith with a drill stood in the lobby of Schuyler Audio.

There was a court order in the marshal's hand.

Albert's lawyers had written it overnight, and a judge had signed it before breakfast.

Albert himself stood by the elevators in a grey overcoat, with his glasses in his hand.

Peter stood beside me.

The vault was in the basement, behind a steel door as thick as a car.

The drill whined for six minutes.

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