Accidents do not come with a motive spoken aloud thirty seconds later.

That is a man who wanted a house, and a woman who was in the way of it, and a plan to make her sign once the pain had taught her to.” Derek’s attorney shot to his feet and asked, urgently, for a recess.

The judge denied it instantly, without even looking up.

There would be no pause, no break, no chance to regroup.

The truth was in the room now, and it was not going to be sent out of it.