The Phoenix's Rebirth for Revenge novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Face Them
Courtroom eight was smaller than I'd imagined.
Wood benches, a flag, a clock that ran two minutes fast.
Gran sat in the front row on the aisle with her cane across her knees, in the navy silk she'd worn to the centennial.
I sat beside her.
Ambrose sat beside me in a new charcoal suit that he kept touching at the cuffs.
The reporters filled the back three rows.
My father sat behind them, alone, by the door.
He'd come in after we did and hadn't come forward.
At ten the side door opened, and a court officer brought my mother in.
I didn't recognize her for a second.
No pearls.
The ash-blonde bob had grown out grey at the roots and been combed flat.
A plain blue blouse her lawyer must have brought her, a size too big.
She walked to the defense table and sat down, and folded her hands, and looked straight ahead at the judge's empty chair.
She didn't look at the front row.
The lawyer had promised me she'd look at me the whole time.
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