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The Judgment

Author: Oma
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-04-06 23:50:45

HANNAH'S POV:

The verdict came six weeks later.

Castellan called at nine in the morning on a Tuesday and I was in the design room at the new building working on the winter collection when my phone rang. I saw her name and sat down on the nearest stool before I answered it.

"We won," she said.

Two words and it was so clean and final.

I sat there with the phone pressed to my ear.

She told me everything. The judge had found in favour of the plaintiff on all major counts. Aldric Voros had been foun
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