Rise of The Unknown Billionaire

Chapter 77

Philip fidgeted in his seat, tugging at his collar. Across the table, Ethan sat with perfect composure, regarding Philip with those intense blue eyes. He looked so calm, so confident.

It made Philip want to leap over the table and wrap his hands around Ethan's smug throat. But of course, he maintained his decorum. This was a court of law, after all.

Still, Philip couldn't stop his leg from bouncing with pent-up nerves. He loosened his tie, feeling like it was strangling him.

Where was that information from Brick? Surely Maya would have cracked by now. Philip just needed something, anything, to implicate Ethan and turn this whole case upside down.

But his phone remained silent, his pocket empty of the evidence he desperately needed.

"If both parties are ready, we will begin," the judge said in his monotonous voice. He glanced at Ethan's lawyer, an imposing bald man with a trim salt-and-pepper beard. "The prosecution may begin."

"Thank you, Your Honor." Ethan's lawyer, Mr. Everett, r