All Chapters of The Billionaire's Reborn Curvy Heiress : Chapter 31 - Chapter 38

The third day of the trial brought a clearer shift.We arrived at the same time as the day before. Security stayed close. The hallway was busier. Ethan and Sophia were already present with their lawyers. We took our seats without speaking to anyone.Court started on time. The prosecutor called the next witness—a former low-level employee who had handled small cash jobs for one of Ethan’s old business contacts. The man looked nervous but spoke clearly. He confirmed that he had been paid to buy prepaid phones on two occasions. He identified the same type of phone that had been used for the earlier threat messages. He said the request had come through a middle person he used to trust, and that he had later seen that middle person meeting Ethan at a parking garage.Ethan’s lawyer cross-examined hard. He tried to show the witness was unreliable and had money problems of his own. The witness admitted the money problems but held to the main facts: the phones, the payments, the meeting. The j

The next court day felt heavier before it even started.I woke up tired. The memories from the engagement party had stayed close during the night. Alexander was already awake. He did not ask if I wanted to stay home. He only said, “We can leave whenever you need to.”“I’ll stay for the main witnesses,” I answered. “If it gets too much I’ll step out.”We drove to the courthouse in quiet. The cameras were there again. We walked past them. Inside, Ethan and Sophia were in their usual places with their lawyers. I took my seat and fixed my eyes on the front of the room.The prosecutor called a financial analyst who had reviewed the payments linked to the prepaid phones and the earlier threats. The man spoke in clear, simple terms. He showed how the money moved from accounts connected to Ethan’s old business network to the people who bought the phones. He did not claim the money proved who gave the order. He only showed the path. Ethan’s lawyer tried to break the links by calling them norma

The next important day of the trial arrived with a new name on the witness list.Vivian called early. “The middle man who handled one of the phone purchases has agreed to testify. He wants limited protection language, but he’s coming in. Today.”Alexander looked at me. “You want to be there?”“Yes. If he’s the link between the money and the phones, I want to hear it myself.”We drove to the courthouse under the same gray sky as the day before. The cameras were thicker. We walked through them without stopping. Inside, Ethan stood stiffly with his lawyer. Sophia looked smaller than usual. We took our seats.Court opened on time. The prosecutor called the new witness. He was a thin man in his forties who kept his hands flat on the table. He spoke carefully and slowly.He told the jury he had been paid twice to buy prepaid phones and deliver them to a contact he knew only by a first name. The money came in cash through a chain he did not fully see. On the second job he had grown suspiciou

The defense finished their case two days later.They called no more witnesses. The judge asked both sides if they were ready for closing arguments. The prosecutor said yes. Ethan’s lawyer said yes. Sophia’s lawyer said yes. The final stage of the evidence portion was over.I sat in the courtroom that morning with Alexander beside me. The air felt different. The long parade of witnesses and records was finished. Now each side would try to shape the story for the jury one last time.The prosecutor spoke first. She kept her language plain and steady. She walked the jury through the timeline again: the engagement party, the special champagne request, the envelope, the catering worker’s statement, the parking-garage meeting, the words “no noise,” the prepaid phones, the money trail, the threat messages, the cut tire. She did not raise her voice. She simply pointed at the pattern and asked the jury to look at it as a whole.“This was not a series of accidents,” she said. “This was a plan th