“Ms Martin, did you or did you not have an intimate relationship with Joseph Rig?” The prosecutor pressed when silence ensued.
“I-I don’t remember.”
The prosecutor sighed in frustration and walked back to her deputy, who handed over a picture of Joseph Rig. ‘Oh, Goddess, just kill me now’, Marie thought. The prosecutor returned to the witness stand and asked, “You don’t know him, Ms Martin?”
“N-No.”
The prosecutor then flipped the paper over to show another man before she asked, “And what about this man?”
Marie was getting paler by the second. “N-No.”
“Ms Martin, you’re just making things worse for yourself if you choose to lie. Perjury does not carry a light sentence. Isn’t this the man you had an affair with weeks before the government granted the hydroelectric project to Techno Builders?” The shocked gasps and disgusted looks everyone in the courtroom was throwing her way did nothing to ease her anxiety.
d-didn’t sleep with
divorce proceedings with her now ex-husband? She even had this picture to prove
handed it to the judge, Marie Martin noticed her vision blurring before her head slumped on the stand with a loud thud that stunned
the court to grant an adjournment was to faint on the stand, she would’ve done it much sooner. At least then she wouldn’t have to
anger before drowning down the coffee in his polystyrene cup
thought she or the others who backed her up shared some form of relationship with the companies they voted for. It was so obvious that those companies weren’t
you dismiss your suspicions, darling?” Lucianne asked innocently as her
her black orbs before saying, “Because we did a background check, and we couldn’t find any blood relationship between our ministers and the companies they voted for. And the ministers all had a mate at that time. Martin’s own mate died from a car accident only around…three years ago, I think. I never thought someone could bribe any of them by using sex. And since the audit department didn’t put
she uttered,
have been justified all
that? The damage remains. Nothing can be done to rectify the years of unfair competition. Now,
can be done.” Lucianne said sternly, demanding her mate’s attention before she
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