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CHAPTER 77: THE REVIEW OPENS

Author: Sire Bliss
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-09-14 02:37:40

I wore blue this time, not grey. Sophia had picked it out. "You wore grey when you lost," she said. "We're not doing grey."

The courtroom was the same room, the same soft municipal light, the same judge. But everything else had changed, and I felt it the moment I walked in, the way you feel a room that already knows how it's going to end.

Alexander was at his table. He looked smaller than he had three months ago. Not physically. Just diminished, the way a man looks when the thing holding him up
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    Alexander's POVI stood, and I buttoned my jacket, because my hands needed something to do, and I looked at the judge, and I understood that for the first time in my life I had no strategy.That's the thing no one tells you about the bottom. There's a strange quiet down there. All the calculating stops, because there's nothing left to calculate. Every angle I'd have worked, every room I'd have read, gone. Elara's testimony had taken the last of it. My own words, read back to me in her voice. As long as she stayed blind. I'd said that. I'd meant it. And I'd just heard it land in a courtroom like a stone dropped down a well, and there was no version of me clever enough to climb back out."I do, Your Honor," I'd said.Now I had to actually speak, and I didn't know what I was going to say until I started saying it."I'm not going to argue for custody," I said.Prescott's head came up sharply. That wasn't the plan. There was still a plan, some threadbare version of one, fight the witness's

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    She began with the affair."I was in a relationship with Alexander Whitmore," Elara said. Clear. Steady. "For approximately two years. Beginning before his wife lost her sight, and continuing after."I watched Alexander at his table. He'd gone very still. The kind of still that costs a man everything he has."And during that relationship," Damian said, "were you aware of financial arrangements involving Mrs. Whitmore's inheritance?""Yes.""Describe them.""Alexander moved money out of Clara's trust over several months, through companies connected to my family. My uncle, Reginald Hayes, set up two of them." She didn't soften it, didn't spare herself. "I helped make introductions. I moved paperwork. I knew what it was for."The judge was writing fast now."Ms. Hayes," Damian said, "I want to be careful here. You've been granted a cooperation arrangement. Are you aware that testifying to your own involvement exposes you?""I'm aware.""And you're testifying anyway.""I'm testifying beca

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 77: THE REVIEW OPENS

    I wore blue this time, not grey. Sophia had picked it out. "You wore grey when you lost," she said. "We're not doing grey."The courtroom was the same room, the same soft municipal light, the same judge. But everything else had changed, and I felt it the moment I walked in, the way you feel a room that already knows how it's going to end.Alexander was at his table. He looked smaller than he had three months ago. Not physically. Just diminished, the way a man looks when the thing holding him up has been taken away. Prescott sat beside him, and there was something in the set of Prescott's shoulders that told me he'd read the same file I had.Elara was not at Alexander's table. That alone said everything."We're here for the three-month review," the judge began. "Mr. Blackwood, you may present."Damian stood.He didn't rush. He built it the way he'd built everything, piece by piece, in that steady methodical voice, and I watched the room absorb each piece as it landed."Your Honor, sinc

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 76: THE NIGHT BEFORE THE REVIEW

    The night before the review, Damian wanted to go through the file one more time, and I told him no."We've been through it forty times," I said. "If it's not ready now, one more read won't fix it. And if it is ready, one more read won't help. I know every page. Go home. Sleep. I'll see you in the morning.""You're sure.""I'm sure. I don't want to walk in there tomorrow having spent tonight staring at documents. I want to walk in rested and clear." I paused. "For four months I lived inside that file. Tonight I want to think about something else."He understood. He gathered his coat."Clara," he said at the door. "Whatever happens tomorrow, you did everything right. Every single thing. I need you to know that before we walk in, in case the day gets away from us.""I know," I said. And I did. "Thank you, Damian. For all of it. However, tomorrow goes.""It's going to go well." He said it quietly, no salesman in it. "Get some sleep."He left.Sophia came instead. She'd said she would, and

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    Elara’s POVGet out of my study, he'd said. We were on the same side when it was winning.I went up to the master bedroom, Clara's bedroom, and I sat on the edge of the bed I still couldn't quite call mine, and I did the arithmetic one final time, all the way to the bottom, no flinching.Alexander was finished. Not struggling, not embattled. Finished. The board doesn't come back once it distances. The story doesn't die once it's on the front page. And the custody case he'd built his whole future on was going to collapse under the fraud the moment Clara put the two in the same room, which she would, because she was patient and thorough and she'd told me herself, in that kitchen, with her seeing eyes, exactly what kind of woman she was.So the only question left was the one I'd been circling for weeks and finally had to answer.Did I go down with him, or did I get out.I already knew. I'd known since the night I lay in this bed and understood I'd walked into a burning building. But know

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