Stepdad and His Friends Bred Me During the Birthday Blackout novel · Chapter 45 of 48
Chapter 45: The Wire
Rand stood up and buttoned his jacket.
"Your Honor, the respondents move to dismiss the petition, and I'd like fifteen minutes to show why."
"You have ten," the judge said.
"Then I'll be efficient."
He pressed a button on a small speaker on the table.
Dorothea's voice filled the room, clear and pleasant.
"I'd pay him to be a father who doesn't live in the house. Many men are, dear. Most of them aren't paid."
The lawyer across the aisle half-rose.
"Your Honor, I object. That recording was made without..."
"Arizona is a one-party consent state," Rand said. "I was the party."
"Overruled," said the judge. "Play the rest."
Rand played it.
When the tape reached the end, and the cold, soft voice said, "Then the county will teach you," nobody in the gallery coughed.
Dorothea sat with her hands folded on the table.
Her face was perfectly pleasant, and her knuckles were white.
"Next," Rand said, "a bank record."
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