Ellie's POV
"Just dress up," she ordered, rather dismissively. "The trial begins in less than one hour, and you are expected there."
"For what?" I challenged her, most probably the first time managing to speak. My head was spinning. This was impossible. She must have known something was off, something had gone awfully wrong with whatever Daniel did. But all I could fathom in her eyes was disappointment, even disgust.
"No one wants to hear what you have to say, Ellie. "Regulatory injunctions, and exceptions – Daniel's testimony is what matters," she answered sharply and irrefutably.
Before I could lick my wounds, you would have thought two officers were criminal composites of me as they stepped into the restrooms. One of them inched closer to me and my arm was apprehended quite painful
