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Jean entered the courtroom quietly, each step soft and soundless, her presence nearly unnoticed.
But she wasn’t alone.
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Following just behind her was a slender teenager dressed entirely in black, his face partially obscured by a dark baseball cap.
As if sensing something, Jolene turned at just the right moment–her gaze catching Jean’s briefly in the air.
And then, her attention shifted.
She spotted the boy behind Jean, stared at him for a couple of seconds–then slowly, knowingly, curved her lips into a smile laced with meaning.
Then she turned to the judge and declared calmly, “Your Honor, I have new evidence.”
The courtroom stilled.
The livestream chat exploded.
“New evidence?”
“Jolene’s just grasping at straws. If she had anything, she’d have shown it already.”
“This is a courtroom, not a circus! Stop wasting time.”
“I’m just here for the clown show at this point.”
“Stop dragging it out! I just wanna see that verdict and go to bed.”
“No way this turns around. If Asher’s innocent, I’ll eat my keyboard.”
Meanwhile- Thomas narrowed his eyes at the livestream feed.
The moment Jolene mentioned “new evidence,” his unease sharpened into something colder, more focused.
Jean hadn’t returned to the courtroom after the recess. And now…
His eyes flicked to the screen just as the camera panned across the back row.
Jean.
She stood there, relaxed and radiant. There was a confident curve to her mouth, a knowing light in her eyes that cut straight through the lens.
That was not the face of someone bluffing.
A pulse of dread pounded in Thomas’s chest. His fists clenched tighter.
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Jean simply smiled and stepped aside.
Revealing the boy standing behind her.
“Wait, who’s that?”
“When did he come in??”
“Does he have something to do with the case?”
The whispers started flooding the courtroom.
The livestream chat exploded in parallel.
“Who the hell is this guy? All mysterious and stuff?”
“This is the ‘evidence‘? Bro, come on.”
“If you’ve got something, spit it out already.”
“I swear, they just grabbed a random dude off the street.”
“Get on with it!”
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In this country’s judicial system, submitting new evidence mid–trial–whether a witness or an object–was allowed. The protocol wasn’t particularly rigid.
Last–minute witness entries weren’t common… but they weren’t impossible.
And right now, every eye–on–screen and in the room–was locked onto the teenager in black.
His head was bowed, cap pulled low. The only visible detail was his sharp, pale jawline.
But he didn’t stop in the aisle for long.
Wordlessly, he walked forward, straight through the stunned crowd, and stopped beside Jolene.
Then, in one smooth motion–he took off his hat.
And revealed a face that was striking, defined, and unmistakably familiar.
In front of the livestream screen, Thomas’s pupils shrank.
His breath caught.
“Edgar!” he gasped.
Then–Bam.
His fist slammed into the desk hard enough to shake the whole thing.
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standing right in front of the judge, prepared to speak.
The tides had turned.
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