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CHAPTER 546
The judge studied the man in the aisle, her eyes narrowing as her brows arched.She listened in silence as words flew back and forth between the man and the lawyer, then raised her gavel.“Enough!”Judge Halloway slammed it down three times, the sound cracking through the courtroom like thunder.“Mr. Sterling, sit down. Bailiffs, hold your positions.”She leaned forward over the bench, her sharp gaze boring into the man.“You are making a very serious claim, sir. You are saying that a witness, previously believed to be incapacitated, is currently en route to this courtroom in a wheelchair?”“Yes, Your Honor,” the man replied, his voice finally steady. “And he isn’t coming just to talk. He’s coming to show you what Otis Griffin did to his body before he tried to turn him into a ghost.”Sterling was practically vibrating with rage.“This is a stall tactic! A fairy tale!” he snapped. “Your Honor, you cannot allow this trial to be held hostage by a man who isn’t even on the witness list!”
CHAPTER 545
At the mention of a witness, Otis’s gaze flickered. His brows rose, and a faint smirk tugged at his lips.He had been careful, meticulous when he lured her. There was no way a witness could exist.Even Gerald’s lips curled. He had helped his son bury the truth. Only Elena knew what had happened that night, and no matter how deeply they dug, they would find nothing.Elena lifted her head, her eyes red and streaming.“There were people there…” she whispered. “But they were all his friends. They were Griffins, too. They just watched. No one… no one will help me.”Sterling let out a sharp, mocking laugh that echoed off the high ceilings.“Exactly!” he barked. “No one, because it didn’t happen! You are standing here alone, trying to extort a man whose shadow is worth more than your life.”He turned his back on her, waving a dismissive hand.“Your Honor, unless the prosecution has a magic trick up its sleeve, I move to strike this entire testimony. There is no witness. No one is coming th
CHAPTER 544
It wasn’t just a statement; it was a confession of a nightmare.“We were at the penthouse,” Elena whispered, her eyes fixed on the floor. “The music was so loud… I remember thinking the walls were vibrating. Otis offered me a drink. He was smiling. He looked so… normal.”Her voice faltered.“But the moment I finished that glass, the world started to tilt. I tried to leave, but he caught my arm.”She choked back a sob.“He dragged me into the library. I kept saying ‘no,’ but he just laughed. He told me that in this city, a Griffin’s ‘yes’ was the only thing that mattered. He said… he said I should be honored that he chose me. And then—”She couldn’t finish.She buried her face in her hands, her sobs filling the suffocating courtroom.Sterling rose immediately.He moved like a vulture, his silk suit shimmering under the fluorescent lights. He didn’t stay behind his desk; he paced the floor, closing the distance between himself and the broken woman on the stand.“Miss Vance,” he began,
CHAPTER 543
Kyle began to speak.At first, he paused, describing the moment he was grabbed, held up in the cafeteria, the kidnapping at his home, the darkness of the van, and the smell of the warehouse.But when he looked at Otis, the man who now looked more like a monster than a person, his voice grew steady.He described the threats, the coldness in Otis’s eyes, and the absolute certainty that he was going to die.Otis glared at him as if daring him not to speak, as if the courtroom itself should silence him. Kyle hadn’t seen Tedmond since that day, and he was going to make sure Otis felt his stare.“He told me I was nothing,” Kyle said, his voice echoing through the silent room. “He said the Griffin name made him a god, and that no one would ever find my body.”“Objection!” Sterling shouted, leaping to his feet. “Hearsay and inflammatory! There is no recording of this alleged conversation. This is a fabrication designed to manipulate the jury’s emotions!”“Overruled,” Judge Halloway snapped.
CHAPTER 542
The summons hadn’t just reached the Griffin estate.Across the city, in a quiet, somber apartment, the same legal machinery was in motion.Kyle sat at the kitchen table, staring at the official document before him. His hands, still scarred from the ordeal, trembled slightly.Beside him sat his attorney and a representative from the District Attorney’s office.“They’re moving fast, Kyle,” the attorney said gently. “Cases like this usually take months to reach a preliminary hearing, but the prosecution is fast-tracking it. They don’t want the Griffins burying witnesses.”Kyle looked up, pale. “They want me to testify… this week?”“You’re the primary victim,” the DA representative explained. “The star witness. Your testimony is what will keep Otis Griffin behind bars. You need to show the court exactly who he is. The man who tried to ruin your life.”Kyle closed his eyes. The cold warehouse. Otis’s mocking voice. The terror.He didn’t want to see that face again. But he knew the danger
CHAPTER 541
Otis was walked back through the bare, fluorescent-lit corridors of the detention facility.The numbness that had settled over him during the agonizing visit with his father and uncle remained, a shield against the pain, the humiliation, the despair. His father’s broken cries of “Goodbye!” still echoed faintly in his ears, but Otis had already severed that connection.He was alone now.And entirely focused on survival.The officers didn’t escort him to the empty cell the lawyers had secured. Instead, they led him to a different block and stopped outside a reinforced steel door.It clanged open.Otis was shoved roughly into the small concrete space. The air inside was heavy and stale.Three men were waiting.They were large, intimidating figures in standard-issue jumpsuits, their postures radiating ingrained dominance. They sat on the narrow benches bolted to the walls, occupying the cell with deliberate menace.Otis stumbled, catching himself against the cold wall. A sinking fina
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