Cayden POV

"Is this really the best choice? Is there no other way?" James asked his mother.

We had a few minutes before the trial. Winter had decided to tell James that she planned to plead guilty. I advised against it to avoid unnecessary drama, but she insisted that he understood the stakes.

"This is the only way, and both Cayden and I don't really have a choice here," she told him. "Just in case anything happens to me, I've ...