She Trusted a Fake Lie Detector, So I Left Her the Truth novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Read Me

Sadie's POV

Dane stopped three feet from the witness box and clasped his hands behind his back.

"Joanna, you've been performing today," he said. "I know your performances. You hold your left thumb with your right hand when you want to be believed."

She looked down.

Her hands were in her lap, and her right hand was holding her left thumb.

She let go.

"Yes," she said. "I do that."

Dane blinked.

"You're not sorry about the boy," he said, a little faster. "You wanted your evenings back. You told me so yourself, in March. You said Milo was exhausting."

"I did say that."

"You said Flynn was a burden."

"I said that too."

The jury shifted in their seats.

I watched Flynn beside me.

His jaw was set, and he looked straight at the front of the room.

I put my knee against his.

"And you know what I did with those words?" Dane said, spreading his hands to the room. "I listened. I'm the only one who ever listened to you."

"You didn't listen," Joanna said. "You collected."

"Is that a lie?"

"No."

"Then."

"I said those things on bad days. I said them, and I was wrong, and I was a coward." She turned and looked straight at him. "Everything you read to me was true. That's what I want the jury to see. You were never wrong about a fact."

"Thank you."

"You were wrong about me. Every single time, you were wrong about what it meant."

The courtroom went so quiet I could hear the clock.

Dane's smile slipped, and he put it back.

"Fine," he said. "Then read yourself, sister. Tell them whether you love me."

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