The Final Defense
Bogley
My wife's student, Talon Palmer, hired someone to stab me, leaving me critically injured.
In six years as an attorney, my wife Audrey Taylor had never lost a case. Yet she stayed up all night compiling nearly a hundred pages of trial materials, all to prove Talon innocent.
I stood in the doorway for six straight hours, torturing myself as I watched her work. Finally, I asked hoarsely, "Why?"
She didn't even look up. "You accused Talon of being the other man. All he did was ask that thug to pretend to be his brother and scare you. Everything that happened afterward was the thug's own doing. It had nothing to do with Talon."
I shook my head in disbelief. Hysterical, I rushed forward and tried to tear the documents on her desk to pieces, but Audrey caught my wrist in a cold, unyielding grip.
"Stop it, honey. If you absolutely have to decide who's to blame here..."
Audrey's gaze met mine. I was devastated and furious, but all I saw in her eyes was cruel pity.
"Then I guess you can only blame yourself for being too weak to fight back. And for having the kind of arrogant face that makes people hate you."