Chapter 141

• Every muscle in my body went rigid. The sound in the room seemed to fade, but her words still pierced through like needles.
• “I know what they did to her. What her father was doing to her, I know about it,” she continued. “And maybe that’s why she acted the way she did. I wanted to be there for her. I really did. I thought I could help her, but I came to learn… I wasn’t really helping her. A part of me feels lost. What she did, what she went through… It confuses me. But I don’t blame her… I still care for her. I just wish she hadn’t taken it out on those who were close to her.”
• The courtroom went dead silent. Internally, I felt like screaming. I felt like raging. I was tempted to stand and yell at her, make a scene and point fingers. But I held back, because a scene was definitely something they wanted to happen.