Todos los capítulos de Betrayed, I Become The CEO'S Contracted Bride: Capítulo 331 - Capítulo 340

Chapter 329The security tray rattled as she pushed her bag into it. The air in the building smelled of floor wax and wet wool. A guard in a uniform checked the screen and pushed the tray down the rollers.Elena Marsh picked up her briefcase from the belt and handed Elara her coat."We are in courtroom four." Elena checked her silver watch. "It is on the third floor and we have plenty of time."She set off at a measured pace and Elara followed her to the lift.They were here for the third name on a list of four matters. She had cleared her whole morning at the clinic to sit in a chair and wait.A long row of plastic chairs lined the wall outside the courtroom for the people waiting. A screen mounted on the wall showed the schedule. Marcus Sterling was listed for eleven.She found a seat near the back of the gallery when they went in.Empty chairs filled the space. Elena sat beside her and opened a thick paper folder."They will handle the first two quickly," Elena said. "These are sim

Chapter 332Elara wrote her signature at the base of the medical assessment and slid the paper into the wire tray. The next patient folder sat on the stack to her left. She had twenty child referrals to clear before the afternoon clinic opened and the round clock on the wall showed she was already falling behind her schedule. She reached for the next file and aligned the edges of the cardboard.The door to the office opened. Hammond walked in and pushed the panel shut behind him, bringing a tablet he usually left to his field officers. He crossed the floor and stopped at the edge of her workspace.The device went flat on the desk. He placed it directly over her open folder, blocking the text."The switchboard recorded this an hour ago," Hammond said. "I need you to hear it."He tapped the glass. A woman's voice came out of the speaker."My name is Leonie Vass."The tone was flat. A roar of an engine swelled and faded behind her words. The pitch of the sound changed as the heavy vehicl

The plastic chair flexed slightly as Elara shifted her weight. She looked across the scratched laminate table and waited for the woman to settle into the seat opposite her. Elara caught the smell of floor polish and old paper.She had four more families to speak to in Turin today before the local staff locked the building and the security guard sent everyone out into the street. Signora Moretti sat with a coat draped across her lap.The mother had brought her own documentation for her son. The papers sat on the table inside a green ring binder. Signora Moretti kept her hand resting on the cover, as if she expected someone to try and take it away from her. Elara could see the tabs separating the sheets into distinct sections. The pages were sorted by date and medical condition, and the sequence was much more thorough than the police copy Elara had pulled from the clinic archive earlier this morning."The final laboratory results arrived yesterday afternoon." Elara folded her hands on t

Signora Moretti pushed the green ring binder across the desk. Elara opened it to the current week and smoothed the thick paper flat. She had twenty minutes scheduled for this appointment and there were already four families occupying the chairs in the waiting room outside.Leo sat on the edge of the examination table. He leaned forward and unlaced his trainers. The boy pulled them off, slid down to the floor, and placed the shoes side by side under the middle of the visitor's chair.Signora Moretti stared at the wall above the sink. Her hands gripped the handbag strap tightly enough to turn her knuckles white. She had said what she wanted to say yesterday, and she had still brought her son in on time."Does he complain about the ankle after a full day at school?" Elara asked."Only on Thursdays," Signora Moretti said. "They have games on Thursdays and he runs on the hard surface.""Does he drag the foot when he gets tired in the evening?""A little. I always have to remind him to pick

Elena Marsh turned the page of the application and made a mark in the margin.The bundle covered the table between them. Nine days remained until the hearing, and the final version of the paper had to be filed before the court closed on Friday.Elara watched her work through the stack. Elena went at a steady pace, and she only spoke when there was a mistake on the page."The fifth of May." Elena tapped the paper. "Not the sixth."Elara checked her own copy of the timeline. "That is a typo.""I will have it amended." Elena tapped the top of the next sheet with the end of her pencil. "Exhibit four is out of sequence. It needs to sit after the clinic registry."Elara pulled the document from the stack. She shifted it down the pile and squared the edges of the paper against the table. The master list had thirty exhibits on it, and every page had to match the index before they could submit the bundle to the court."There is a duplicate page in the second bundle." Elara pointed to the stack