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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,

the

The air was thick with dread, uncertainty, and

screen, eyeing the unfamiliar

he, for Thomas

power did he

exhaled, trying to level

but his head was

agreement. He’d gone rogue. He’d

spit in

But even so-

believe Edgar could ruin everything. A teenager’s statement couldn’t be considered hard evidence, not in the eyes of

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Just

In the courtroom-

pat, her lips curling into

she announced to the judge, “is our new

buzzed with

“Who is that?”

the hell did this kid come

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Sarah and Asher… okay, maybe

wasn’t in the footage. No mention of him

in off

rippled through the crowd, and the chat lit up with doubt

in the gallery, Jean returned to her

arm, eyes wide with alarm and curiosity. “Jean!

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