Dad jumped to his feet, his face flushed. “Who the hell are you people?”
The man calmly removed his glasses.
“My name is Marcus Bell. I’m an investigator with the South Carolina Bar’s Innocence Review Network.”
Ethan went completely still.
Marcus turned toward me.
“Maya, we apologize for arriving like this. We tried to reach you privately this morning, but your phone was off.”
A knot formed in my throat.
“What is this?”
Marcus glanced at Ethan before returning his attention to me.
“Your fiancé saved my son from serving twenty-five years for a crime he did not commit. Every person standing here is connected to someone Ethan Cole defended when no one else would listen.”
A woman standing nearby broke into tears.
Marcus faced my father once again.
“You called him a nobody. Sir, half this room is here because that ‘nobody’ gave our families their names back.”
