#Chapter 49 Coaxing

Mira I was restless all night. Tossing and turning, sometimes accidentally hitting Dominic in my attempts to get more comfortable or clear my head of the theories spinning around it. Dominic and I were up early since we had promised his father that we would all meet first thing and make our way back to the courtroom as a family. Davos was diplomatic and pleasant, clearly not trying to display too much emotion for the public to take the wrong way. I was grateful for his ability to stay calm, something Dominic must have learned or inherited from him. Irene was not as tactful, and wore her disdain proudly for all to see. Lucian looked bored and like he had somewhere else to be, but still smiled at me and tried to get me to sit with him in the courtroom. I politely declined his invitation and stayed close to Dominic. Tessa wouldn’t look at me. And when she did, it was only to continue to glare daggers at me, shaking her head as if I was the biggest disappointment in the