employees.
Control of family.
Control of me.
Now he had lost all of it in a single morning.
Sloane stood.
“I didn’t know about any of this.”
No one answered her.
The judge gathered his papers.
“Court is adjourned.”
The gavel struck.
Just like that, it was over.
Richard tried to reach me outside the courtroom.
“Caroline.”
I kept walking.
“Caroline, please.”
I turned.
For years I had begged him to listen.
Now he was the one chasing me.
“What?” I asked.
He looked at my stomach.
Then at me.
