Can’t Win Me Back

"Everyone heard the recording played in the courtroom just now!" Javier was so pissed off that his breathing had become uneven.

He growled, "Others might not have recognized your voice.

But of course I could! "Right from the start...

you were fully aware of Sophia's actions.

You knew she hired a hitman! Not only did you conceal it from me, but you actively assisted her in keeping it a secret.

You must be out of your mind!" Betty denied, "No.

That's not it." "Don't you know that you were harboring a criminal? You are an accomplice! Did you want to follow in Sophia's footsteps and end up imprisoned?" Betty was scared shitless.

She was flustered.

She knelt by Javier's feet.

Tear stains marked her face as she gazed up at him.

She pleaded, "Dad! I was wrong.

I now know that what I did was wrong! "All those things.

She made me do them! She's my mother.

do, I didn't dare to go against her! I

"Please,

cannot let me end up in

you bear to see me end up in prison? "Also, can our family afford to have another family member go to jail? The

to

pupils constricted as he yelled, "Bugger off!" Betty scooted to the side hurriedly and made

watched as he

footsteps sounded as others walked by her,

person stopped to

This made her feel

"Damn it.

it!" Betty punched the ground with

and cursed in

the courthouse, not a circus! Go outside to scream instead!" Two police officers approached her

hateful expressions on

flushed red

up her strength to

She stumbled awkwardly.

aback the moment she stood

end of the hallway, bathed in a stream of sunlight, stood the

had observed her humiliating

once relished provoking Alyssa whenever she crossed her path, now refrained from uttering a