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Chapter 255
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2026-05-25 22:43:08
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From Trash to Titan Chapter 142
Twenty minutes after the hearing ended, Edmund Harcourt’s car pulled up outside Harcourt Group headquarters.He had left the courthouse through a side door with his lawyers closing around him like a wall, and he had not spoken a word since. The courthouse had been swarmed with the media and so he did his best to not make himself noticeable. Now the driver opened the rear door, and Edmund stepped out with his back straight and his chin lifted. Not one line on his face showed what he felt.He had ruled this building for nearly twenty years. He would not walk into it looking beaten.But the moment he entered the lobby, he felt a lot of eyes turn towards him.Employees stood in clusters near the reception desk with their phones in their hands. Some did not even notice that he had walked in, because their eyes were fixed on a screen. A few were watching on their work computers with the volume on high. On every screen, an old man was pleading with a judge, and Edmund knew exactly which old
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Behind Dorian, Gideon had a faint but smug smile across his face. Hazel moved half a step closer to Maxwell, and Kieran stopped grinning, looking annoyed. Dorian glanced towards the witness stand. “That poor old man,” he said. “A tall gentleman, was it? I do hope he was not describing anyone I know.”“You have a lot of nerve coming over here, Mr Zenith,” Natasha said coldly.“Miss Park. Always a pleasure,” Dorian replied, with a polite nod.“Why are you here?” Maxwell asked.“Is a man not allowed to watch the law at work?” Dorian said lightly. “The gallery is open to the public, I am told.”“You didn’t come for the law,” Maxwell said.“No,” Dorian admitted, and his smile widened. “I came to watch an old family come apart. One so rarely gets a seat at the front.” His eyes drifted to the Harcourt table, where Edmund still sat with a hard glare on his face, then came back to Maxwell. “Do enjoy today, Maxwell. I doubt the Harcourts will trouble you for much longer.”“Is that all?” Maxwel
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Walter’s face went from pale to grey.“And if any part of your testimony is untrue, lying to this court is a separate crime, with three more years on top,” the judge continued, looking at him over his glasses. “That is ten years, Mr Hale. You are sixty-three. I will ask you once, and I want you to think carefully. Is your testimony true?”Walter looked at Edmund. Edmund glared back at him with burning eyes. Walter looked at the judge again, and his lips began to shake.Ten years! At his age, he would walk out of prison a very old man, if he walked out at all!And worse, he could already see that this was a losing battle. Sterling’s lawyer had torn his story apart, and the judge no longer believed a word of it. If he kept lying, he would go to prison for nothing, while the Harcourts watched from the gallery!“No,” Walter said at last. His voice was low, and it shook only a little. “It isn’t true, my lord. None of it.”The Harcourt lawyer jumped up. “My lord...” he said.“Sit down, coun
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The new judge was a lean, grey-haired man who had not spoken a word to either side before he sat down.“I have read both submissions in full,” he said, looking from one table to the other. “I will be asking questions of both parties. Sterling’s counsel first.”Maxwell’s lawyer stood up. Before he could finish his opening sentence, the judge interrupted him.“Counsel, your client terminated a contract of eleven years without notice,” the judge said. “Why shouldn’t this court see that as precisely the kind of harm this restriction was meant to prevent?”It was a hard question, and the lawyer answered it calmly, citing Clause 8.4 and the three hidden Zenith agreements. The judge nodded slowly and wrote something down.Although he did not say whether he agreed.However Maxwell was at ease this time. This was going to be a fair trial, and the Sterling lawyer had the stronger case to make here, meaning they should be winning this comfortably. This was not Judge Pembroke. The man was on nob
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At a quarter to two the next afternoon, Maxwell’s car stopped in front of the courthouse, and the steps were packed with reporters again.Hazel, Natasha and Sterling’s lead lawyer followed him through the crowd without answering a single question. Maxwell pushed through the swinging wooden doors of the courtroom and stopped.Edmund Harcourt was already seated at the Harcourt table.He had come early, and he had not come alone. Dominic sat on his left with a pale face, saying nothing. Janice Harcourt sat in the first row of the gallery directly behind them. And lined up along the table and the benches beside it, in identical dark suits, were lawyers. Last time, the Harcourts had brought two or three. Maxwell counted at least ten!Natasha leaned close to his ear, her eyes sparkling with amusement.“Count them, Maxwell,” she whispered. “The old man thinks a dozen lawyers will save him. It’s desperation.”“He told me he would bring every lawyer his family owns,” Maxwell said quietly.Nata
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Maxwell thought about all the possible reasons Edmund Harcourt of all people would be calling him at this time of hour. And he couldn't really think of a better excuse. Although it was very late, Maxwell did not wait until morning. He pressed the number and lifted the phone to his ear.Hazel read the look on his face and set the plates down without a word. She carried the pan of chicken to the dining table and left the kitchen to him. Whatever this was, he would tell her when it was over.The call connected before the first ring ended. Edmund Harcourt had been holding his phone in his hand.“Mr Sterling.” The old man’s voice was stiff, the voice of someone forcing himself to be polite. “Thank you for returning my call. I would like to meet you in person today, before the hearing. Just the two of us. No lawyers and no cameras. I believe I can...”“I’m not meeting you tonight,” Maxwell said.“You have not heard what I am offering.” Edmund said. His voice was unusually humble. “I don’t
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