The courtroom smelled of paper and disinfectant. I wore an iron-grey silk suit.
Across the room, Adrian sat beside his lawyer in an ill-fitting suit. He kept rubbing the frayed edge of his cuff.
His lawyer stood and wiped his forehead. "Your Honor, these were two people who shared a life for three years. A marriage."
My lead counsel, Mr. Davies, rose. "The plaintiff relies on a documented pattern of fraud and theft."
He opened the evidence binder.
"Exhibit A: Financial records showing the transfer of four hundred thousand dollars from a Blackwood Group corporate account to a holding company whose sole owner is Ms. Chloe Jenkins."
"Exhibit B: A diamond bracelet receipt for twenty-eight thousand dollars from the afternoon of October 14th, when Mr. Blackwood missed my client's cardiac s
