“Brock’s defense has settled on its strategy,” he said.

“They intend to argue that Natasha suffers from serious mental illness, that she fabricated all of it, and that her injuries were accidents.” I felt the rage rise in me like heat, because it was the exact lie — the very same one — that Brock had used on the trucker on that highway, only now dressed in a suit and carried into a courtroom.

He had spent years building the story that she was mad; now he would spend money making a jury believe it.

“There’s one more thing,” Montgomery went on, careful.