I Was His Waiting Room novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: The Hearing
She brought them.
On Monday a television van sat outside City Hall with its mast up.
Its cameraman was waiting by the hearing room door.
Kiera had her phone clamped to her chair arm, streaming live. Hearts floated up the screen.
She wore white, and her hair was perfect.
There was fresh gauze on her right forearm, though the bite under it was two months old.
The committee chair was a gray-haired woman with half-glasses, with the grant officer at her elbow.
My lawyer sat beside me with her reading glasses on their chain and a stack of folders she called "the boring part".
Every seat behind us was full.
The veteran was there, and the chemistry teacher, and the boy's parents, and the teenager's father.
Kerry was there too, after promising twice not to speak.
Niall and Brendan in the second row. Ronan at the end of it, in a gray suit that didn't look like him at all.
The aide sat by the door in her raincoat with her hands folded on her purse.
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