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Chapter 283 Just Wait and See

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Selena had heard the crash. Startled, she glanced at the screen and fixated on the boy standing at the center of the courtroom.

She didn’t recognize him. Not his face, not his name.

But what shook her more than the stranger’s appearance… was her brother’s reaction to him.

“Thomas… do you know that guy?” she asked, voice trembling with unease. “Is something wrong?”

Thomas’s knuckles were still clenched

hite.

His molars were grinding, jaw visibly tense, and his face was drained of color. He looked furious–cornered.

But he didn’t answer.

His entire focus was pinned to the screen, to the boy.

Selena, confused, looked between him and the monitor. She didn’t know Thomas had ever dealt with this teenager. She had no way of knowing what Edgar represented.

After a long, brittle silence, Thomas finally spoke, voice dry as dust.

“It’s nothing.”

He offered no more than that. Then he clamped his mouth shut, refusing to say another word.

knowing better than to press, slowly

in the

earlier smugness was gone. The air was

back to the screen, eyeing the unfamiliar boy with

he, for Thomas to react

did he

exhaled, trying to level out

heart was still burning, but his head was cooling. He had to stay

agreement. He’d gone rogue. He’d chosen

spit in

But even so-

statement couldn’t be considered hard evidence, not in the eyes of the

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In the courtroom-

Edgar’s shoulder a light pat, her lips curling into

the judge, “is our new

courtroom buzzed

“Who is that?”

hell did this kid come

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I thought the only people on scene were Sarah and Asher… okay, maybe

in the footage. No mention of him till

dragged someone in off the

through the crowd, and the

the gallery, Jean returned to

and curiosity. “Jean! Who is that guy?

leaned forward too, visibly