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Chapter 90: Guilty
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2025-02-26 01:00:25The courthouse was packed — reporters, spectators, and an air so thick with tension it felt like it might suffocate her.
Aurora sat at the plaintiff’s table, her back straight, her face calm, but inside, her heart was a storm. The weight of everything rested on this moment — on the truth finally coming to light.
Joseph sat beside her, his presence steady and reassuring.
Across from them sat Don Ramon Blackwood, his face a mask of cold fury. His lawyers whispered to him in hushed, frantic tones, but Don Ramon didn’t even flinch. He was a man who believed himself untouchable — a man who had built his empire on lies and thought it would never come crashing down.
But today, the reckoning began.
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