Chapter 61 The Verdict
The defense rested on Friday after two weeks of methodically destroying the prosecution’s case.
Closing arguments were scheduled for Monday. Then the jury would deliberate.
Ariella spent the weekend in a fog, barely eating, barely sleeping, replaying every moment of testimony in her head. The ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 June Morning
2. Chapter 2 The Frost Palace
3. Chapter 3 The proposal
4. Chapter 4 The Impossible Offer
5. Chapter 5 You Matter
6. Chapter 6 Breaking Point
7. Chapter 7 Whatever you Decide
8. Chapter 8 The Contract
9. Chapter 9 Like yesterday
10. Chapter 10 meaningless syllables.
11. Chapter 11 How Marriage Works
12. Chapter 12 Let me go
13. Chapter 13 Collision Course
14. Chapter 14 The Performance Begins
15. Chapter 15 Where was your first kiss?
16. Chapter 16 The First Crack
17. Chapter 17 Good at pretending
18. Chapter 18 Moving Day
19. Chapter 19 Beautiful prison
20. Chapter 20 An invitation
21. Chapter 21 The Masks Crumble
22. Chapter 22 Partnership
23. Chapter 23 Stronger Together
24. Chapter 24 Slow-Burn Bonding
25. Chapter 25 A New Era
26. Chapter 26 The Midpoint Kiss
27. Chapter 27 The ghost of his kiss
28. Chapter 28 Something stupid Or honest
29. Chapter 29 The Big Secret Drops
30. Chapter 30 Soldiers in a Revenge plot
31. Chapter 31 A Dying manipulator
32. Chapter 32 The Unraveling
33. Chapter 33 A reason to hate him more
34. Chapter 34 I hope you save each other
35. Chapter 35 The Funeral
36. Chapter 36 Is this the beginning of space?
37. Chapter 37 No decisions yet.
38. Chapter 38 Separate Paths, Day one
39. Chapter 39 Day Two
40. Chapter 40 Day Four
41. Chapter 41 The Truth Comes Out
42. Chapter 42 Home
43. Chapter 43 The Fallout
44. Chapter 44 The Price of Justice
45. Chapter 45 The Cage Tightens
46. Chapter 46 The Arrest
47. Chapter 47 The Bail Hearing
48. Chapter 48 Breaking Point
49. Chapter 49 The Witness
50. Chapter 50 Glimpse of Hope
51. Chapter 51 The Reversal
52. Chapter 52 The Media Blitz
53. Chapter 53 Protective Custody
54. Chapter 54 Trapped Together
55. Chapter 55 The Long Wait
56. Chapter 56 The same Routine
57. Chapter 57 The Trial Begins
58. Chapter 58 What if we lose
59. Chapter 59 The Testimony
60. Chapter 60 Planting Doubts
61. Chapter 61 The Verdict
62. Chapter 62 This isn’t over
63. Chapter 63 Sentencing
64. Chapter 64 A Choice
65. Chapter 65 Moving Forward
66. Chapter 66 One Year Later
67. Chapter 67 Thanksgiving
68. Chapter 68 The Unexpected
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