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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.

to

mood in the office

air was thick with

back to the screen, eyeing the unfamiliar boy

for Thomas

power did he

exhaled, trying

burning, but his head was cooling. He had

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

spit in

But even so-

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

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In the courtroom-

shoulder a light pat, her lips curling into a satisfied, almost

she announced to the

courtroom buzzed with

“Who is that?”

hell did this

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only people on scene were Sarah and Asher… okay, maybe Thomas too, because of

No mention of him till

dragged someone in off the

rippled through the crowd, and the chat lit up with

Jean

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

leaned forward too,