CHAPTER EIGHTY
(part six)
Wednesday morning – 10 A.M.
Sandy sat near the front of the courtroom with Nash on one side of her and Noelle on the other. She marveled at how easy the day had started. She made love to Aden. Like most mornings, he had talked to the baby. He was so sure they were [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY
(part five)
Honey pointed to her shoulder and neck. When she looked up, she saw that everyone in the courtroom had a kind of stunned expression on their faces. Confused, she looked for MJ. His face was grim but he smiled at her. She looked up at Ann Campbell’s face. The Assistant DA worked to [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY
(part four)
Wednesday morning – 9:11 A.M.
“Mrs. Scully, have you ever seen any burns like this?” Ann Campbell asked.
The Assistant DA picked up a photo of the back of Jill’s head after she had been burned with acid.
“I saw Jill when she had those burns,” Honey said.
“Any other time?”
“I had those burns when I was [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY
(part three)
Wednesday morning – 6:25 A.M.
“Aden?” his secretary’s voice came over the speaker on his office phone. “Your lawyer’s on the phone.”
“Lipson or personal?” Aden looked up from the share report he was reading.
“Samantha Hargreaves.”
“Thanks, put her through,” Aden said.
Aden took a drink of water before he answered the phone. With any luck, the [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY
(part two)
“Hmpft,” Honey said. “Well, according to Ann, they’re planning on saying that you and she were lovers and planned the entire thing to get me out of the way. She stabbed me for you. Now that she’s in prison, you’re pretending to be with me so no one suspects.”
Not knowing what to say, [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY
(part one)
Tuesday evening – 7:15 P.M.

Sighing, Honey looked out the window of the SUV.
“Tired?” MJ asked.
He slowed to turn onto Seventeenth Avenue from Race Street. They were making their way to St. Joseph’s Hospital to visit Heather and her new baby.
“Tired? Yeah, I’m tired,” Honey said. “I was just thinking about what [...]

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