He Came Back for Both of Us novel · Chapter 26 of 32

Chapter 26: Void

Nobody in that courtroom made a sound for six minutes.

Somewhere behind me a woman whispered, "Oh my God."

A man near the back said a word the bailiff pretended not to hear.

Ollie had his hand over his mouth.

The judge took off her half-moon glasses.

Jameson's mother had her eyes shut.

Jameson didn't look away from the screen once.

The clip ended on a frozen frame. Lisette's face, lit from below by the lamp, smiling at a picture of me.

My lawyer set the remote down.

"Nothing further, Your Honor."

Lisette's lawyer stood up.

He opened his mouth. He looked at his client.

He sat back down.

Lisette got to her feet on her own.

"That's not what it looks like," she said.

The judge didn't answer her.

"I was protecting him," Lisette said. Her voice had gone high. "She was nobody. She was a girl who played piano in a hospital lobby for a scholarship."

"She'd have ruined that family. I saved that family."

"Sit down, Ms. Grimball."

"I built that account!" She turned on me across the aisle. "I built him! Every follower that boy has, I got him!"

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