“Did you have to degrade me,” he hissed, “in front of everyone whose opinion I care about?”

“I simply told the truth,” I said, “in front of the people whose respect you valued more than mine.

If the truth degrades you, Logan, the problem was never the telling of it.”

Chapter 19 — Under Oath

Our court mediation took place two weeks later.

Logan arrived with dark circles under his eyes, looking like a man who had not slept in some time, and I felt, watching him, no triumph and no pity, only a kind of distant, settled calm.