The little girl hadn’t spoken since the night her mother was found on the kitchen floor! Then the court dog lowered his head-and she whispered one sentence toward the defense table…

night, was he?”

“No.”

“So Boone didn’t see anything happen.”

Lily stroked the top of the dog’s head slowly, from between his ears down to his neck, the way Denise had taught her during nightmares.

“He didn’t see,” she said. “I saw.”

Graham’s expression held. Barely.

“And I told him,” Lily added. “He doesn’t make my words wrong.”

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