A Vengeful Occasion

Tobias Hale is surrounded by rumors, most of which are true. Underneath that three-piece suit is a cold, callous man who rules the courtroom with an iron tongue. Judges hate him with the same passion he hates me. He hasn’t always been that way, though. We were once star-crossed lovers who sat by the water’s edge—me wearing his jacket and him dreaming about a future far away from my family.