Dorothy wasn't sure if Everett had taken her words to heart, but he had indeed stopped showing up.

To confirm this, she even made a point of shopping for wine at a remote supermarket.

It took a few trips before she was convinced that Everett had stopped having her followed.

Good riddance.

She was finally free.

Holding a bottle of wine, Dorothy cracked a half-smile and filled the glass in front of her to the brim.

The verdict had cunexpectedly.

had braced herself for at least a month’s wait given

a month had passed when Ephraim's call

his opening words, Dorothy guessed the outcome. She pulled out a bottle of chilled Chardonnay she'd bought the day before, poured a glass, and settled onto the

getting out of it! It's just..." Ephraim hesitated before continuing, "It's just that I didn't expect Heather to suddenly change her statement, claiming she coerced Mrs. Lopez with past favors, and that she was completely unaware of the whole affair, let alone the consequences of that drug injection!" "It was the Lopez family pulling strings to meet up with Heather, wasn't it?" "That's what I think too." Ephraim sighed, "But don't be discouraged. We still have a chance! I will find the gaps in Heather's testimony—"

eerily calm, her voice steady without a trace of fluctuation. It was

charged, swho would faint

his first

the other lawyers at the firm were quite upset too. How could the client herself be so detached? "Our evidence is solid! Honestly, this verdict caughtoff guard! I won't spell out the dirty tricks... you know the score. But if we appeal, we'll be going

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