Chapter 13: What He Wanted, Part Two

Theo Vale walked out of the courthouse a free man and gave the press line a peace sign. The DA declined to appeal. There was nothing to appeal. He posted a selfie with me on the steps and captioned it my lawyer is hotter than yours and it got four hundred thousand views, which is how the legal press found me, which is how, six weeks later, I was standing in a rooftop restaurant with a glass of something expensive being asked the same question for the ninth time that night. "Ms. Adair, the...