This had taken on a whole different dimension.
What had been a man and his wife sitting down with the lawyers had descended into something a judge had to preside over. Bill sat me down in the hallway, briefing me before I entered the lions den. Olivia stood beside him, talking on her phone in hushed tones. Trey stuck around but Sydney made her excuses and left. My eyes were trained on the door, even in the midst of Bill Waterman outlining that what we'd done with regard to misleading the school was tantamount to fraud. I still wanted her here. As Bill explained the process to me, Trey sat beside me, slapping my shoulder comfortingly and giving it a squeeze.
I watched as Alan Mitchum led Caroline into the building, closely followed by Charles and Martha Cunningham her parents. The girls e
