Mason began with the first date.Not as a question. As a statement, another memory offered across the courtroom like something retrieved from a shared box. The restaurant. The thing she had ordered. A detail about the walk afterward that was accurate and specific enough that Grace understood immediately what he was doing.He was establishing that he had known her. That there had been something real between them. That the jury should understand his relationship with Grace not as predator and victim but as two people who had loved each other and come apart.She answered each statement when it became a question. Directly, without emotion, without warmth.Yes, she remembered the restaurant.Yes, she had ordered that.Yes, they had walked afterward.He moved through the early marriage the same way. Specific memories, accurate details, the texture of a life they had shared. He was good at this — she had always known he was good at this — the construction of intimacy as a legal strategy, the
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