Leilani.
I couldn’t sleep a wink last night and the first thing I ca up with as soon as I got out of bed was that: I needed to et Darius.
Plain and simple.
I do not care one bit about what everyone says he is. I do not care that he was a dark knight or a blue slave. All I cared about was why he’d singled out from my siblings and why for so reason, he shared more features with than any other mber of my ’family’ did.
Another thing I had to know was why father—Mr Blackthorne was ’owing’ him a debt. And at the sa ti, hated more than the thorn on the sole of his feet.
I dragged myself out of my house and got into my car that’s been idle for a couple of days now; And by the ti I arrived at the front of the court, I wasn’t so surprised to find Jarek already waiting for there whilst leaning against his shiny black mustang.
A few tres away from us, my estranged family stood— well, besides Gavin— clustered in a small circle. They would occasionally turn to stare at then look away, but I didn’t miss the sadistic grin on Chalice’s face or the way she continuously gave the stink eye.
The dumbo probably ca today with the video as her only evidence, and I was here to see how far she could go with this.
I was however stunned out of my mind when another car drove into the parking lot, and then Maya and Gavin stepped out. Her eyes t mine briefly and she smiled. But she didn’t co over. I frowned.
"Baby, you should go in now. Don’t worry, I’ll co in exactly two minutes after you." Jarek whispered soothingly, his warm fingers caressing my face as he spoke.
I nodded to him and then turned to nod at Maya before walking off, and true to his words, he ca in as well exactly two minutes later accompanied by Maya with Gavin walking a few steps behind them.
The court settled into an awkward silence shortly afterwards— one that was suddenly interrupted when the large doors at the back opened and Zevran and Kael walked in.
Their eyes t mine for a very brief mont before they looked away, leaving to wonder why everyone was here today, and why a hearing that should’ve been private had been made public this way.
The judge started off as usual, followed by my lawyer who rose to introduce the ’case’.
However, as soon as she did, Father’s lawyer, the stony hard woman rose to her feet, picked up my previous evidences and said in a loud voice;
"It has been established that every evidence that was brought to us by Ms Leilani Blackthorne— now Sinclair, is false. She was disciplined, not mistreated. And that is because, growing up, she was a very difficult child."
My eyes widened as soon as those words settled into my ear and I nearly rose to my feet, if not for my lawyer who imdiately held back.
If I was angry before, then my anger was definitely over the moon when she continued by saying; "She was a nace as a child and teenager who was accused of a lot of vile behaviors, including harming her grandmother."
"Objection my lord!" My lawyer growled, and goddess, I could swear that I had never seen her this mad before.
The judge glanced at her briefly and nodded. "Objection granted."
"It has been established that my client never hard her grandmother, and in fact, the perpetrator of this cri is in the sa room as us, coddled up by these sa parents who pride themselves as disciplinarians!"
"Objection my lord!"
"Objection overruled!" The judge snarled, not even sparing a glance at Father’s lawyer as she turned to and continued; "Are there any proofs to these claims?" She asked, causing a maniacal grin to spread across my face as I slowly passed the flash drive to my lawyer.
While doing this, my eyes and Chalice’s t and I flashed her another smile when her face fell. She seed to mouth sothing to but I paid no attention to it and called out; "Yes!"
"Good then, let’s see it!"
My lawyer then rose to her feet with the flash drive in hand and we all watched as the infamous video played out right in front of us for the second ti this month.
By this ti, Chalice’s face was completely white. She was trembling slightly; But that wasn’t all.
Now, the judge was glaring at my family like they had sprouted second heads, her disdain obvious in her gaze.
"Do you not know about this and are clueless or did you just decide to tender false information to the court of law?" She seethed, and goddess I hoped that this was the part where they would go speechless.
The part where they would finally admit their fault.
However, to my utmost surprise, their lawyer rose to her feet again, that is after whispering incoherent words to Father and his wife. She announced; "My clients insist that the video is fake. Moreover, they still stand on the fact that she was disciplined and not mistreated. There are tons of evidence that point to this fact—"
"The video above is a footage from your house. Your own house! Are you still insisting that it is fake despite knowing this?!" My lawyer growled, but was silenced by a look from the Judge.
After several minutes amid intense back and forth, the judge suddenly leaned into her chair, cast a wary glance at all of us and drawled; "First off, that video has been taken in for scrutiny and it has been established that it is real. Is there anything else you have against Ms Sinclair because I’d like to see the said evidence that proves that she was a difficult child."
And at that, my father was called forth, his eyes gleaming with malicious delight as he stated; "We have a video."
The room fell into silence.
"We have a video, and proof that she had deliberately betrayed the pack for selfish reasons. She brought in rogues that threatened our safety, all because she has a personal vendetta against her sister."
"That is a serious cri. Are you sure of what you’re saying?"
"Yes!" Mother seethed but stopped when father glared hard at her.
He cleared his throat and continued; "Yes. She was always known to bully her sister until she took it too far."
A small smile spread across my face when I heard that, because to , that was why I had co here in the first place. It was the only thing they felt they had against .
And I was glad.
Glad that they were stupid enough to take the bait.
Glad that they were about to ruin their precious daughter’s life simply because they wanted to protect her by all ans.
My eyes t the projector and held when the well known video soon began to play, and even though I was sure as hell that it wasn’t in it, my heart still raced at the vulgarity in which it displayed.
Also, there was only one problem now:
The fact that I had no proof that it wasn’t .
The fact that the girl in the video looked exactly like , so much that it would be difficult to convince the court otherwise.
When my eyes t Chalice’s again, she grinned at , causing my rage to boil over until it nearly consud whole. However, her smile fell when Gavin suddenly rose to his feet whilst holding a large brown manilla envelope over his head.
He growled; "And I have proof to show that the lady in the video isn’t Ms Leilani Sinclair. She was also not responsible for the rogue attack and every other thing she’s been accused of. My evidence is not tampered with and can be taken in for testing."
My blood roared in my ears as I looked up to et his gaze and goddess, sothing akin to warmth blood in my heart and guts when he smiled softly at before he continued;
"She was indeed mistreated, not disciplined. And I know this because I used to be one of those saddled with the responsibility to beat her up, sotis on my own accord, and oftentis because my father made do it."
The court room descended into awkward silence as soon as he said that,
—And then there was chaos.
So much chaos.
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