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Chapter 6

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The courtroom was arctic. White walls, fluorescent lights, the kind of institutional cold that seeps into your bones. I sat at the plaintiff's table in a charcoal suit my grandmother's stylist had chosen—simple, sharp, expensive enough to whisper old money without screaming it.