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160: The Verdict Looms

Author: Risa Mint
last update publish date: 2025-08-15 23:28:38

Chapter 160

The courtroom air turned heavy with suspense, the kind that made hearts pound and breaths shallow. Tania Costa sat rigid at the defense table, her fingers clenched tightly around the edges of the polished wood, her knuckles white.

Her eyes flicked to the door, to the murmur of shifting bodies, to anything but the gnawing fear that had started to stir deep within her gut.

Then the doors creaked open.

And all hell broke loose.

"No! He can't be alive! I shot him!" Tania’s voice pierce
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