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Chapter 166 No One Dares to Take It

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Jean weaved through the busy crowds, surrounded by towering skyscrapers and endless streams of cars.

The massive buildings stretched along the street, their dark gray glass exteriors reflecting dazzling light, grand and imposing-

This area was home to several of Blairford’s top law firms.

To be honest, Jean hadn’t decided exactly who she was looking for.

She just wanted to find a lawyer who looked decent enough to trust.

But she hadn’t expected-

To run into Mindy here.

“I already told you clearly. Please leave!”

Through the full glass doors of a law firm’s lobby, Jean spotted Mindy being coldly dismissed by a female employee.

Mindy’s hair was messy and frizzy, her eyes hollow with exhaustion and grief.

She clenched her fingers tightly, her eyes slightly red. “Please… I’m begging you… I really have no one else to turn to… Please save my son…”

her entire body on

instinctively stopped

to touch that mess. Anyone who does will have their reputation and business dragged through the mud. Don’t you get that?” The female employee looked down at Mindy,

still stubbornly clung to her faith in him. “Aren’t lawyers supposed to

employee looked her up and down with thinly veiled contempt. “Don’t think I don’t know you’re planning to

Or I’m

end, Mindy

staggered out of the law firm, her gaze vacant,

pressed her lips together and, after a moment of thought, walked straight into

now. Just as the female employee finished kicking Mindy out, a sharply dressed lawyer came down

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The employee nodded.

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voice layered with subtle meaning, “the price

bad.”

Blairford has already been warned. No

Jean’s eyes flickered.

how it

would represent Asher wasn’t just because

public

than Asher

odds of winning were low–could actually be golden opportunities. If a lawyer managed to secure a lighter sentence, their fame would

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