Chapter 7

The headlines were screaming the following morning:

BAY FAIR LAWYER BEATS RENOWNED D.A. IN DEBUT CASE!

ROOKIE LAWYER SENDS MAFIA LORD TO JAIL

MITCHELL EDWARDS, FRESH FROM LAW SCHOOL, WINS FIRST DEBUT CASE AGAINST D.A. BY SENDING PHILANTHROPIST KYLIAN BASSETT TO LIFE IN PRISON

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WASHINGTON DISTRICT ATTORNEY NOW?

BRUCE JONES VINDICATED

Mitchell had left the courthouse the minute Kylian Bassett had been given his life sentence. She would have preferred that he had gotten the needle. If it were Greek law, that would have been indisputable. But what had happened to him was justice enough. And what had happened to Damon Russell was a side effect. A devastating one, of course, but a side effect nonetheless. After slipping out through the back door in order not to be besieged by the reporters she disliked so much, Mitchell had gone back to her hotel room. For the first time in months, she had slept for twelve straight hours. Even when sh