Chapter 10

Esme...

The case had been scheduled for the day after, and as much as the shreds of evidence weren't ready, there was no evidence.

The couple had planned to make the deceased fall from the building and sustain injuries that'd get him enough compensation to pay their son's medical bills, and he hadn't looked downward when he jumped not noticing the woodcutter beneath the ground which unalive him at the moment.

It was the only logical explanation and Rita who sat opposite me widened her eyes in awe of how I made the explanations.

" I'm sure we'd win the case", she said and I nodded. We had to.

The next day, I donned an all-black dress together with a black heel to court.

All the families of the plaintiff were seated including the dying son.

A triumphant smile played on her face and she once again took a ridiculing glance at me.

Everyone else did what she did as well, looked at me like an amateur, too young to represent the Ergo and how the Ergo was losing its value, but all that soon ch