TDYDK, Chapter 1: Humility and Fairness

Judgment is a spectacle, and Leo Kovac is the main event.

Step into the courtroom where Leo stands trial for a brutal act of violence. To the world, he is a hardened criminal, wearing a mask of cold indifference as he endures the stares of a city that has already condemned him. His only defense is his best friend, Julian, a lawyer fighting with the desperate loyalty of a brother.

Julian’s strategy is a dangerous one: to win the court's mercy, he must tear open the sealed, violent history of Leo’s past. He exposes a childhood of unimaginable trauma to the one person Leo can’t bear to show weakness to—Julian’s sister, Elara, who is watching from the gallery.

As the cold, hard facts of Leo's life are laid bare, the line between monster and victim begins to blur, and the judgment in Elara’s eyes transforms into something far more dangerous: pity.

But the judge's final verdict is not the freedom it appears to be. It's a different kind of cage, one that will put him on a collision course with the only "family" he has left—the one that operates in the shadows. The gavel falls, but the real trial is just beginning.

Press play to hear how one man’s second chance becomes his most dangerous threat.