Evelyn’s POV

Evelyn didn’t realize how tightly she’d been holding herself together until the courtroom doors closed behind her. The sound was soft, controlled, almost polite, but something inside her loosened all at once. Her shoulders dropped before she could stop them, her fingers, clenched since the moment she’d taken her seat inside, slowly curled open at her sides.

She stood there for a second too long, just inside the hallway, staring at nothing in particular.

People were ...