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.

wait given the

than a month had passed when Ephraim's

guessed the outcome. She pulled

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—" "No need." Her interjection

voice steady without a trace of fluctuation. It was

had seen many clients, semotionally charged, swho

was his first tencountering

a few minutes when he received the verdict, and 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

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