Doubt (Caroline Auden) by C. E. Tobisman

Author:C. E. Tobisman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781503936829
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2016-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

Three long New York blocks later, Caroline’s feet screamed in protest at her heels. Business attire sucked, she decided. Fortunately, her destination was ahead—a hulking gray structure with overwrought gray pillars and a statue of Lady Justice mounted before it.

Tourists clogged the sidewalk, all wearing matching shirts or caps, clustered around docents carrying flags bearing the names of different tour companies. Apparently, the historic courthouse was on an architectural walking tour. Weaving through the throngs of people, Caroline scanned the exterior of the building for an entrance.

Finally, she saw it glowing in the pale-yellow sunlight of early morning.

She jogged toward it and stopped at the security checkpoint. A line of litigants and lawyers stretched out onto the sidewalk, all waiting to pass through a single metal detector manned by a bored-looking marshal whose bloodshot eyes scanned a small screen.

She glanced at her watch. She had only ten minutes before the hearing. Louis would be wondering where she was. Forcing herself not to panic, she waited for the marshal to wave her through.

When she’d passed the checkpoint, Caroline entered the green marble rotunda.

She found the list of courtrooms posted on a dog-eared piece of paper on a pillar. Judge Todd Jacobsen’s courtroom was on the second floor.

But while Caroline saw the down escalator located across from the exit to the courthouse, she didn’t see an up escalator anywhere. She huffed in frustration, contemplating writing a sternly worded letter to the architect. While she appreciated the efforts of those who’d tried to locate the escalators in a manner that retained the building’s original decorative details, it would have been nice to have up and down in the same general location.

Resisting the urge to check her watch again, she began to methodically check each hallway and corridor, hunting for the up escalator. She found it on the far side of the building, over a quarter mile away from the down escalator.

Finally, she stood at the doors to the courtroom.

She reminded herself this would all be over soon. She remembered her guided meditation from one of her favorite tapes. She imagined roots forming from her feet, traveling down into the loamy soil, gripping, grounding.

Then she entered.

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