Roman’s arrogant grin flickered.

And I sat very still, and I let my face show nothing at all, because I knew what was on that page, and I knew that the scales of that entire hearing had just, silently, tipped all the way over, and that not one of the three people across from me had felt it move.

Chapter 5 — An Intriguing Development

Judge Alvarez steadied himself, cleared his throat, and looked up over the tops of his glasses at Roman with his brows raised.