I Regret Loving You for Five Years novel · Chapter 31 of 32
Chapter 31: Five Years
I went.
Not for him.
Because I'd spent five years being the person who wasn't in the room, and I was done with that.
Boone flew back to Seattle with me and sat on a bench outside the federal courthouse with two coffees.
"I'll be right here," he said.
"You don't have to wait."
"I'm a mechanic. Waiting's half the job."
***
The courtroom was small and wood-paneled and full of reporters.
I sat in the back row.
Marshall stood at the defense table in a gray suit that hung off him now.
He didn't turn around.
I don't think he knew I'd come.
The prosecutor read the facts in a flat voice.
The recall. The stickers. The certification signed on a glass counter beside a tray of rings.
A woman at the South Pole whose heart had stopped.
The judge asked Marshall if he wanted to say anything.
He stood up straighter.
"Only that it's true," he said. "All of it. I signed without reading because I didn't think anything I signed could hurt anyone I'd have to look at. I was wrong. I'm not asking for less."
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