BRAYDON’S POV
“On Count One,” Judge Harmon announces, “kidnapping and unlawful detention of the complainant. The court finds the defendant guilty.”
Katy’s grip on my hand tightens. Before we arrived at court, I always assumed I wouldn’t be nervous, and no matter the outcome, I’m alive and I’ve got everything I wanted. But there’s something that happens when you sit in a room and watch your father be read his crimes out loud. It isn’t grief exactly. It’s closer to finding out the ground you’ve been standing on your whole life was just the foundation to hell.
I have his jaw, his nose and most parts of him. I don’t know what to do with that today, sitting here, and watching him stand like none of this matters.
I know I’m not him. I’ve always known that. But knowing it and feeling it are
