The Teacher They Tried to Erase
The two men who had crewed the false ambulance admitted, in exchange for consideration, that they had been paid to transport a minor to a clinic outside every rule of law.
Piece by piece, the thing Griselda had counted on no one ever being able to prove was assembled into a case that could not be waved away as the fantasy of a delusional boy — which had been, all along, exactly the defense she had prepared.
Chapter 35 — The Self-Sacrificing Woman
At the hearing, Griselda tried to wear the mask she had worn for years.
“I raised him,” she said, again and again, to the court.