She walked back to our table, resting her hand lightly on the back of my chair. I felt the solid strength of her presence, a protective barrier matching the heavy warmth of Liam sitting right beside me.
"Look at the evidence, not the theater," Paige concluded, her eyes burning into the jury. "We will show you the paper trail, the financial payoffs, and the cold, hard timeline of a kidnapping. We will show you that even when someone tried to do the right thing, Jason Vanderbilt used his power to bury them. We will show you how Liam Thorne tried to tell the truth, but was brutally blackmailed into silence by Jason—who held the details of the hit-and-run of Maxwell over his head like a noose."
She leaned in closer to the jury box, her voice dropping to a gravelly, intense whisper.
"This wa
