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“Me too,” Ollie adds

“Make sure we’re not being followed,” Carter demands

“I’m on it,” Johnson says

I close rateful for the familiarity of these three men

“Hey You can’t sleep”

I force my eyes open “Huh?”

“You can’t sleep You ht have a concussion I’er”

“She’s never going to see it that way She needs sooat I don’t think she’s going to coh”

“What happened in there?”

“I was leaving the courtroom, and she launched herself like a damn missile I had no clue who it was Once I was on s up under ain, I socked her in her eye”

“Jesus”

“I sy”

“No, you did the right thing, sassy I’m just sorry that it happened”

“Me too I’ to taint the trial I need this to be over I want to move on with my life, and I can’t while we’re wrapped up in this insanity”

He nods his head “I know It’s all I can do to keep it together while his lawyer tries to play on the client’s conscious with the no father, working mother with little money, and fell in with a bad crowd story How anyone can look at that man and not see pure evil is beyond me”