Chapter 74:
Miss Okonkwo starts with the easy questions.
Name. Age. Where I live.
And then she says, "Mrs. Sterling. You were married to Marcus Sterling. Is that correct?"
"Yes."
"For how long?"
"Two years."
"And during those two years, did your husband ever lay his hands on you?"
Margaret Sterling's lawyer objects.
Judge Mathison overrules.
And I tell the truth.
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It takes two hours.
Two hours of me sitting in a witness chair with my hands folded in my lap and my voice steady and my eyes on the jury.
I tell them about the wedding night. The list of rules. The first time he hit me because I laughed on the phone with my mama.
I tell them about the butter. The window. The parking ticket. The phone he took away so I couldn't call my mama before she died.
I tell them about th
