Chapter 3

The table went completely silent. Everyone slowly turned to look at Charlotte. They were now fully convinced she really had been reborn.

Charlotte lowered her head with a heavy sigh. "You can't change fate. Some things are meant to happen. All we can do is accept it."

After saying that, she looked straight at me. "Yelena, I think you, of all people, should understand that."

Caught off guard, I met her eyes. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Charlotte shot Levi a deliberately troubled look. "I know you've been waiting for Mr. Howard to promote you to lead attorney. But unfortunately, he thinks I'm the better fit. I get that you're upset. But some things are just destined."

Levi, who was still in a daze from everything that had happened, blinked like he had just woken up.

It was obvious he had never even thought about the promotion until Charlotte brought it up. But after those two dead-on predictions, he had complete trust in Charlotte.

He quickly said, "Yeah, you're absolutely right, Charlotte. I was going to offer you the position."

Then he turned to me. "You heard her, Yelena. Some things are meant to happen. You can't change fate."

I sneered inwardly and looked up at Charlotte.

"Ms. Lowell, I don't think you're just after the lead attorney position. What you really want are the cases I handle, which make up nearly half of the firm's entire caseload, am I right?"

Charlotte's expression shifted. She hadn't expected me to hit the nail on the head.

She immediately shot back in protest, "That's ridiculous. I'm a reborn woman with bigger things on my mind than your pile of case files. I'm just telling you what's coming."

"Is that so?"

Smiling, I locked eyes with her.

"Next, are you going to predict that I'll switch firms because you stole my position?"

Charlotte's face paled instantly at those words. She instinctively glanced over at Finley. Her panic at being exposed was plain as day.

She quickly composed herself and looked at me again. "Seems like you're blurting out your plan first because you're feeling guilty. Well, since you've already spilled the beans, I won't keep it a secret anymore.

"Mr. Howard, Yelena's been planning to jump ship to our biggest rival, Vera Legal. And that's not all. She's going to use our firm's resources to crush us. By that time, our whole firm will go bankrupt, and we'll all be out on the street!"

"Are you serious?"

Levi's gaze instantly turned cold. His eyes narrowed at me with a sharp edge of suspicion.

Charlotte shot a glance at Finley, who immediately caught on and stepped forward to help her "prove" her point.

"Yelena, so that offer letter in your inbox was from Vera Legal? And here I thought it was just spam and didn't give it a second glance. Looks like you were planning to betray our firm all along!"