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“No.”

“Has she ever done any of that to you?”

Galvin snorted. “She’s never so much as called me by my first name until recently and we were discussing something about your son. That’s the first time she’s ever even called me ‘Scott.’ No, she’s never been anything other than completelyprofessional with me, and no one has ever seen anythingbutthat.”

“Thank you.”

“I would have thought he’d pull that out when the ex-wife was testifying,” Corbin muttered, sharing a look with others.

“It’s Dain. He has a plan. There’s a reason,” Sander argued.

I would have thought the same though… Actually, on both points. It was Dain and he did have a plan.

But most attorneys would have pulled it out when she was testifying.

Except Dain did have a different plan. He called her up next when others would have waited until later. He used that she would be irate that her ex-husband defended another woman and bad-mouthed her.

And it worked. She sounded like a lunatic. It was also smart of Dain because she now changed her story that there wasanotherwoman who threw herself at Galvin that night, a blonde woman that she’d never brought up before and knew it was me.

Dain went over all of the evidence with her and she said it was all fabricated—completely made up. Statements from my bosses and more of when I’d been undercover. Proof of it… Somehow all of it lies because we were FBI and that was what we did.

“No, that is what movies do or maybe the CIA if they wanted to overthrow a government—”

“Objection,” her attorney practically snarled.

“Withdrawn,” Dain said, looking contrite.

But he’d made his point.

She ended up exploding and accusing Dain of using magic to influence the jury and judge even. That was the only way this nonsense and more was allowed and he should be punished.

“That’s a fucking death sentence. Is she like insane?” someone whispered.

Yes, clearly, she was.

The judge wasfuriousand made it clear that if she ever made a wild accusation again that she would be held in contempt.

To which she doubled down, threatening to talk to the First Lady and get them both in trouble, so the judge threw her ass in jail.

“Holy. Fucking. Shit,” I whispered. I glanced over at Sander. “I think that’s good?”

“It shows that she’s really in cahoots with the First Lady and has her on speed dial. Give me a minute to get over my shock.”

Yeah, fair.

It continued without her, but it seemed clear that it wasn’t going well for their side. Not long after they were done for the day, I received a text from Dain saying they wanted to settle.

No. Not a chance, and it wasn’t about the money. I wanted thatjuryto find that she was full of bullshit and I said as much. She didn’t just get to settle after all she’d putusthrough.

I was glad when he agreed. I did also tell him that he was amazing and thanked him.

I thought nothing could be crazier than that.

I was wrong. The director of the CIA was called into a last-minute congressional hearing where he admitted to the world on live television that the recording of the president was real. He swore under oath that the part he was there for was real and he had no doubt the rest was too.

Oh, and he’d heard the president say multiple times that he wanted all the supes of the world to be sent to Greece and then blow the country off the map.

Apparently, it couldalwaysget crazier.

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