Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

Chapter 1704: He wouldn't let anyone-even the law-tell him otherwise.

Exhuming a newly buried body just to quench curiosity was something Zoren would do even without the grieving family's consent. That didn't matter, though. What mattered to him was knowing whether he had put the man to death or if it was pure coincidence.

Another night came, and Zoren idled on the balcony of his room. He stared out, watching the black panther run around the vast lot surrounding the residence.

On the small round table before him was a half-filled bottle of wine and an untouched wine glass. In his hand, meanwhile, were the lab reports about the tests done on the body. There was a high possibility that they could no longer trace the poison in the lawyer's system, but he hoped they could. After all, the man had a heart attack and crashed, dying even before he could be put into a

coma.

The tests had been done not long after the funeral.

Unless the poison left the human body's system fast, the results would be nothing.

But it wasn't like that.

Zoren read the lab reports again, his eyes focusing on just one part: positive.

"Does this mean if the person who ingested it dies instantly, the poison will leave traces?" he whispered to himself, rocking his head as he thought about it. "Putting the victim into a coma still keeps him functioning. Hence, I assume it's how the poison leaves their bodies."

It was a mere theory he came up with since he had been thinking about it since he first heard of it. Perhaps Mint, with this added information, was also coming up with the same theory. Zoren heard she had been investigating it, but she often reached a dead end.

"That means..." he trailed off, putting down the document and then picking up the wineglass. When he leaned back, he swirled the wine and stared at it. "... I did put him on death row?"

He stared at the wineglass blankly, wondering what he should feel at this moment. Someone as brilliant as that lawyer had died because of his orders. And yet, he couldn't feel anything at all. Not guilt, not shame, not even pity.

for any strong emotion to come, but none

wine. Cocking his

he breathed out, reopening his eyes as heat immediately

let out a shallow breath. "Penelope

Or was he wrong?

as a defense lawyer. He might be the best, but also, the people he had defended were all morally gray. So, that was something

sleep or resting on the bed, he sat on the couch. He tossed the reports aside and picked up the remote control, turning on the television to watch some news from earlier that

news item in

also the first one where she was begging while being escorted into the station And right now, these so called experts and news anchors were discussing the rejection of her baif and where she was going to be held until her

blinked ever

watched the boring discussion and how they were all making such

the case But from Zoren's perspective,

noticed, now the boredom in his eyes was peeking through. "And they're doing

since he found something

boldly. This, however, was a different approach, one he hadn't seen in a while. And thus, he found it

in this case that wants it to end the way they want it," he

Penny's case was one thing. Of course, Zoren was already planning to get to the bottom of that. After all, he might

it would still

only thing was that now, it was clear

person who could purchase

costly poison to end the lawyer who could change Penny's case, and also, someone who could manipulate the media