POV: Kesley

I had been in courtrooms exactly twice in my life before today.

Once at twenty-two, when my father signed over a portion of the company holdings and needed a witness.

Once at twenty-six, for the reading of his will, which had been less a legal proceeding and more a very formal kind of grief.

Both times the room had felt serious and large and slightly outside the normal rules of the world.

Today it felt like a theatre...

I arrived with Leo on one side and Gabriel Haynes on the other, Elizabeth Carter behind us with her leather folder and the expression of a woman who had slept...