“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.
sleep with
that you did just that, using this in her divorce proceedings
it to the judge, Marie Martin noticed her vision blurring
needed to do to force 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 explain her past affairs to her sons when she
on all those projects.” Christian noted in anger before drowning down the coffee in his polystyrene cup as the four of them sat at a table in the court cafeteria. Judge Cook ordered a short recess after Marie
was as infuriated as his cousin was when he responded, “And to think I was absurd when I 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
you dismiss your suspicions, darling?” Lucianne asked innocently as her small hand rested on his
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
in understanding as she
have been
“And what’s the use of that? The damage remains. Nothing can be done to rectify the years of unfair competition. Now,
that can be done.” Lucianne said sternly, demanding
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