I Married The Wrong Brother
I answered like a woman with nothing to hide, because I had nothing to hide, and for the first time since the lobby, being boring felt less like a strategy and more like the truth finally being allowed to speak in its own voice.
Daniel testified last, and if I'd hoped for one honest moment from him under oath, I didn't get it. He was charming in the careful, practiced way that used to work on rooms full of people who didn't live with him, painting himself as a father blindsided by his wife's sudden closeness to his own brother, a man simply trying to protect his son from instability he hadn't caused.
“I never wanted any of this made public,” he told Halloway, and managed to sound, briefly, l