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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 bottomed

was thick with

back to the screen, eyeing

was he, for Thomas to react

power did he

Thomas slowly exhaled, trying to

head was

their agreement. He’d gone

spit in

But even so-

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

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Just Wait and

In the courtroom-

light pat, her lips curling into a satisfied, almost

announced to the

buzzed

“Who is that?”

did this

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

wasn’t in the footage. No mention of him

in off the street?

the chat lit up with doubt

Jean returned to

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

leaned forward too, visibly