Rosalie laid on the cold floor for a long time. When she slowly felt her strength coming back to her, she picked up the bottle of the ointment and placed her elbows on the floor to support herself up. She walked into the bathroom and cleaned her face and body from the dirt and bloodstains.
As she was wiping the blood between her legs, she could not help but sob loudly.
All this while, she had been keeping her precious virginity for Credence. She wanted to keep it until their marriage. However, she had never expected this to happen.
The underground parking lot incident of her being humiliated that she had made up had aroused Credence’s distrust and suspicion. He had even secretly arranged for a doctor to check on her body without her knowledge. He had been able to ensure that she was still a virgin.
When Credence had thrown the medical reports at her feet, she knew that he had found out that she had entirely been slandering Dorothy all this time. Those thugs had not been hired by Dorothy at all.
She had thought that he would not harm her since she had loved him for four years. Who knew that cruel man was even willing to spend money on thugs to ask them to humiliate her…
He had even stood in the corridor outside the room and listened to her heart-wrenching cries for help, yet he had stayed rooted to the ground and left her to scream and cry!
How could there be such a cruel and heartless man in this world?
“Credence, Dorothy, I hate you all. Go to hell, both of you! I want the both of you to go to hell!”
Rosalie cried until her throat was hoarse and she ran out of energy. She gradually stopped crying, her eyes red and swollen. She took out the mobile phone from her leather bag. There were around twenty missed calls from Linda.
She returned the call with tears in her bloodshot eyes. As soon as the call was connected, Linda’s panicked voice came from the other end, “Rosie, I’ve been so anxious. I’ve been calling you for so long. Why didn’t you pick up? What happened between you and Credence? Why is he suddenly pressuring the Fisher family’s business and shares again? The price of our stocks is falling continuously. It’s devastating. Your father said that if our stocks continue to fall like this, we’ll all be bankrupted.”
Credence. The culprit was Credence again. What on earth did he want?
After hearing Linda’s cries, Rosalie clenched her phone tightly. She answered coldly with her red and swollen eyes, “Mom, we had a small dispute. Don’t worry. I’ll go to the company to look for Dad first. It’ll be fine.”
After hanging up on the call, Rosalie stared at her own reflection in the mirror. She could not understand why everything had turned out like this, although every step of her plan had been carried out meticulously… She was losing her place in Credence’s heart. On the contrary, Dorothy, who had an affair with Juelz and even bore his child, was still carving an even deeper place in Credence’s heart.
At that moment, Rosalie knew that she could never forgive Dorothy. She would make sure that Dorothy ended up in jail!
…
It was a Monday morning, and the time was half past nine in the morning. The hearing about Dorothy’s murder was finally about to start.
Not a single sound could be heard in the court, and the atmosphere was incredibly solemn.
Under Credence’s deliberate arrangement and intervention, there were a few spectators apart for the parties involved and the lawyers.
However, only a selected few top-level officers from the police station knew about this.
At that moment, Dorothy was dressed in a loose prison uniform. Her face was calm, and her long black hair was casually tied behind her head. Her protruding belly was so big that even her loose clothes were not able to hide it.
During her period of time in the detention room, Juelz had occasionally sent her all kinds of supplements and nutritious food. It was also probably because of her pregnancy that her appetite had increased. She had grown a little chubbier and fatter than before. Her skin was bright and fair. When she stood there, she looked as beautiful as a picture of gorgeous scenery.
Dorothy looked at the judges, who sat down one after another on the high platform. She did not know what the final verdict would be, thus she felt uneasy at that moment.
At that moment, Juelz quickly ran towards her, but he was stopped by several policemen outside the yellow line. He was so anxious that his face and neck turned red from his cries, “Dory, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m so useless. I couldn’t find the best lawyer in Talco City to help you with your lawsuit, but you can rest assured that I will definitely strive to let you get the minimum sentence.”
“Even if you get sentenced to a decade of imprisonment, I will continue to wait for you. I will wait for you until your release.”
Dorothy looked at Juelz who was anxiously jumping up and down and shouting, completely disregarding his identity as Mr. Juelz of the Sherman family. Her heart was filled with warmth, and she could not help but stare at him with bloodshot eyes and she smiled, “Juelz, thank you.”
“Thank you for supporting me in my loneliest days. Thank you for helping me survive this purgatory.”
Ding! Ding! Ding!
A series of crisp rings rang out, then a judge who sat in the middle of the platform stood up and said solemnly, “The court hearing will start soon. Everyone, please remain silent. I repeat, please remain silent.”
Upon hearing that, Dorothy looked away from Juelz and straightened her back. She stared forwards with a calm look.
“Kingston, Mr. Yates!”
“That’s great, Dory, do you see that? Kingston is going to help you fight your case. You are sure to win. This time, we’ll f*cking destroy that b*tch, Rosalie.”
Dorothy heard Juelz cheering the name of that famous lawyer. She was dumbfounded when she saw him standing handsomely beside her and reading her case file.
It was obvious that Mr. Kingston had not been invited by Juelz. If so, who was the one who had invited him?
Could it be Credence who had done so?
No, it could never be him.
Dorothy shook her head and mocked herself from the bottom of her heart for overthinking.
When the court hearing started, she flitted her eyes across the entire place, even the corners of the court to search for him. However, there was no sight of Credence at all.
Credence had not even shown up, so that meant that he did not even want to attend the hearing at all. He wanted nothing to do with her affairs. How could he be kind enough to get her a lawyer?
Although Kingston was a famous lawyer, he was not serious and stern at all.
Dorothy looked at the smiling Kingston, and he reassured her with a warm smile, “Miss Fisher, I have been entrusted by someone, thus I will try my best to help you.”
“Thank you.”
Dorothy smiled politely at him. She really wanted to ask him who had entrusted him to her, but she then realized that if he wanted to tell her the truth in the first place, he would have told her who the person was a long time ago. There would be no need to wait for her to inquire.
She thought that even if she asked who the person was, he would probably only laugh her question off.
Soon, Rosalie, Linda, and Caleb all arrived with a gloomy face. Under the guidance of the police, Linda and Caleb went to one side to sit down. Rosalie stood opposite Dorothy.
“Dorothy, how have you been all this time?”
Her tender voice contained jealousy and hatred, which caused Dorothy to be taken aback for a long time. Then, she turned around and saw Rosalie, who was standing a distance of about five meters away, wearing plain makeup.
“You’re here…”
Her body stiffened as she subconsciously searched for Credence’s figure.
Sure enough, at that moment, there was an uproar at the entrance. Amidst the crowd, she saw a handsome man. In her blurry vision, he slowly walked in step-by-step with a cold face.