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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.

better than to press,

in the office had

earlier smugness was gone. The air was thick

screen, eyeing the unfamiliar

Thomas

did

trying to

still burning, but his head was

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

in the

But even so-

be considered hard evidence, not in

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Just Wait

In the courtroom-

gave Edgar’s shoulder a light pat, her lips

announced to the judge, “is

buzzed

“Who is that?”

did this kid

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Sarah and Asher… okay, maybe

wasn’t in the footage. No mention of him

just dragged someone in off the

rippled through the crowd, and the

Jean returned to her

instantly grabbed her arm, eyes wide with alarm and

leaned forward too,

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