A Christmas Reprieve

Chapter 229. The Ruling and the Aftermath.

DONOVAN

Zainab had prepared us for this, but not just for the ruling. She was careful because courts in Cook County didn't move that way. And the holiday docket compressed everything further. The judge would take the record, review, and issue a full decision in January. We had known this was the likely shape of it. I had said it to Sienna at one time in t