Chapter 357

Cassian

The courtroom doors opened, and the vultures circled. They’d been waiting for this, my fall. A hundred cameras, shouting voices, and questions fired like bullets. I walked down those marble steps in silence, the weight of the verdict pressing against my spine like the barrel of a gun.

“Mr. Moretti! How does it feel losing to a courtroom lawyer?”

“Do you deny enabling the abuse?”

“Will this