You never trusted me.” “No,” I said quietly.

And I looked at my son, and I told him the truth, which was the one thing he had never been able to bear from me.

“I stopped trusting you when you gave me reasons not to.” He had no answer to that, because there was none.

Chapter 13 — Were You Aware?

When court resumed, Judge Bennett did not turn to me.

He turned to Gregory Walsh, and his questions were quiet and very precise, the questions of a judge who has begun to suspect that an officer of his court may have been used.