Chapter 350

Edith wasn’t going to listen easily. She scanned the room and suddenly shouted, “Martin!”

A young man stepped out from the crowd, his hand over his face as if trying to remain unnoticed.

He yelled, “What the hell did you do this for, Edith?! You’re killing me! If I’d known you were just here to pull this shit on Taylor, I never would’ve brought you! Your sentence is only being deferred, for God’s sake!”

I recognized him immediately. He was Martin Brown, Edith’s cousin and Sally’s nephew.

Soren turned to him, his gaze icy. “You brought her here, Mr. Brown?”

Martin waved his hands defensively. “I didn’t know she’d do this! She’d been recovering at home, complaining about boredom. My aunt suggested I take her out on an excursion, and I-”

Soren cut him off, turning suddenly to me. “How do you want this settled?”

the acid might have damaged his shirt, maybe even hurt him. His abrupt

law

that might seem like I was exploiting Soren’s power or influence.

probation. After this, she was definitely going to prison. I didn’t need to do anything

to everyone you dragged into this!” I added. “If they need medical or psychological treatment, you should cover

you, so they should all

slapped his hand over her mouth. “Apologies to everyone here today. We’ll

my cousin! How dare you join everyone here to gang up on me!” Edith screamed, her voice

still shouting when

understood this was something that had

us to the

mouth to respond, but I cut him off, “Please, can we go to

one of the

to go with the police. She struggled so violently that it took three officers to pull

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