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“Life is cruelest to those who least expect it.”
Phoenix
Phoenix
“That’s the last time we’ll make you an offer. My
advice… take it. The only reason it’s even on the table is
because you saved my wife’s life,” the DA says, pushing the paper in my
direction as I stare at it numbly, hating this office more and more with each
passing second.
The clock ticks loudly in the office, grating on my nerves with tick tock
tick tock as if mocking me for taking my time when my destiny is already
decided.
Reminding me that my entire life depends on the decision I’m about to
make, that time is running out, but how can I sign the paper that will forever
destroy me?
The DA huffs in exasperation, adjusting his glasses on his nose while
giving me a stern look that reminds me nothing of the man who paced the
hospital hallways while I ran several tests on his wife’s brain during my last
year of psychiatric residency. I noticed a pattern. She had been diagnosed
with schizophrenia for years, but it just didn’t fit with all the results until I
found out the other doctors had made a mistake, and all the hallucinations
she kept on talking about were caused by the tumor hidden in her brain.
My lawyer painfully nudges my side with his elbow, snapping me out of
memories, and I shift my attention to him.
He is a bald, middle-aged man wearing a black suit that’s too tight and
scuffed leather shoes that have seen better days. His briefcase has several
holes; it’s a wonder it doesn’t fall apart.
Mr. Rick drums nervously on the table, clearly fed up with my behavior,
and who could blame him? He got assigned to me by the state of New York,
none of the famous lawyers wanted to work with me. As one of them told
me, it would have been social and career suicide. Even my very own
lawyer, who promised to stand by me through anything, refused me.
My very own lawyer being my husband.
No one wanted to protect a cold-hearted murderer.
Or so everyone thinks about me anyway.
He addresses me, his voice void of any emotion as always, although I
don’t miss his upper lip curled in disgust whenever he looks at me. “Ms.
Hale, this way you will have ten to fifteen years instead of life without
parole. They have the best lawyers in the world; not to mention, everyone is
on their side. The judge and jury won’t let you out of that courtroom a free
woman. Especially considering you are not confessing. So why would you
put us through that hell for nothing?”
“They” being the Kings, one of the most influential families in the
world, whose net worth varies from ten to fifteen billion dollars. They’ve
made it their mission to punish me as much as possible.
They think I deserve it for killing their precious daughter-in-law, the
wife of Zachary King.
A day won’t go by that you won’t regret what you did. Prison is just the
beginning, Phoenix.
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