The following day, Elizabeth hired a lawyer, Mr Saul Sharp. He was a middle-aged man and a good lawyer. He took this case to settle the scores against Mr Eric Duma.
Unbeknownst to him, he was against the ruthless Taylor family. Later, when the prosecutor told him he would face the Taylor family legal team, his heart nearly stopped. It was a career suicide. He was no match for Taylor’s elite legal team.
Mr Sharp went to the hospital to confront Miss Parker. He looked at his client fuming with anger and asked, “Why did you lie to me?” Elizabeth was taken aback and asked, “When did I ever lie to you, Mr Sharp?”
A surge of anger rose in Mr Sharp’s heart, and he asked, “Why didn’t you tell me that it was the ruthless Taylor family who had pressed the charges?” Elizabeth was dumbfounded.
She looked at her lawyer and explained, “I am truly sorry, Mr Sharp. It was not my intention to mislead you. I assumed that it was my ex-husband who pressed charges against me.
Yesterday, after we discussed our plan to kill my grandson. My son, Aiden, visited his father at the company. I don’t know what went wrong. I was shocked when I saw the police officers in my private ward.”
Mr Sharp’s anger dissipated and said, “The Taylor family has the best legal team in the country. They are ruthless and brutal.
Why didn’t you hire Eric Duma to be your lawyer? He is the only lawyer who can give the Taylor family legal team a run for their money.”
Elizabeth shook her head and replied, “Eric Duma is like a son to my ex-husband. When his relatives turned their backs on him, my ex-husband took him under his wing.
He sent him to the most prestigious schools. Also, both my ex-husband and Eric loved Avery so dearly.” Mr Sharp looked at Elizabeth and asked, “Why did you divorce such a good man?”
It was a sore subject in Elizabeth’s heart. Even though she didn’t love her ex-husband, it was not her intention to divorce him.
She looked at her lawyer with eyes brimming with tears and replied, “My niece pushed me to divorce my husband out of revenge. I gave my brother and my sister-in-law a honeymoon package to Paris.
When they were coming back from their honeymoon, their flight collided with another flight in the air, then they passed away. My niece is blaming me for her parents’ death.
She also colluded with my ex-boyfriend to kill my baby when I was six months pregnant. She put medicine in my food, which led to a miscarriage.
When I heard that Avery had given birth to a baby boy, I became jealous. Even though she was not involved in my baby’s death, I wanted her to feel what I felt when I lost my baby.”
Mr Sharp shook his head and asked, “Why do you hate your daughter this much? Did she hurt you?” Mr Sharp met Avery at the opening of her company. She looked like a sweet child. Could an evil person join the Taylor family?
Elizabeth shook her head and replied, “I didn’t love my ex-husband. So, I didn’t want to have children with him. However, I agreed to have one child.
When my son was three years old, I got pregnant again. I wanted to abort her, but my ex-husband threatened to divorce me. I hated my ex-husband for forcing me to give birth to her. She destroyed my marriage.”
Mr Sharp shook his head, but he didn’t utter a word. He put the voice recorder on the hospital bed and asked, “Are you going to take action against your lover and your niece for killing your baby? Why didn’t you abort your lover’s baby?”
Elizabeth looked at her lawyer with eyes full of sadness and replied, “Yes, I want both of them to rot in jail for betraying me and for killing my child.
When I was carrying Jamie’s child I felt joy that I had never felt when I was carrying my other children.
I love my baby with all my heart, and I was willing to raise him alone. Because of the love we had shared with his father, I had a feeling that one day Jamie would come back to us. Unbeknownst to me, Jamie was following my niece’s instructions.”
Mr Sharp looked at Elizabeth and said, “We can put a spin on this case to our advantage. I will argue that you were heavily drugged after a life-threatening Cervical Spinal Cord injury.
You mixed up the names of your daughter and your niece by mistake. Have you ever hurt your daughter?”
Elizabeth nodded her head and replied, “I pushed her when she was five years old and she broke her arm. It wasn’t intentional. I was annoyed because she was always on my face.”
Mr Sharp looked at Elizabeth and asked, “Is there anything you want to share with me?”
Elizabeth shook her head. She felt ashamed of telling her lawyer that she had nearly killed her daughter. What if her lawyer refused to help her with the case?
Mr Sharp felt that Elizabeth was hiding something from him, but he let it slide and asked, “Do you trust your son that he would testify for you?”
Elizabeth nodded her head and replied, “Aiden is such a sweet boy. He will surely be on my side. I believe he was tricked by my ex-husband and ended up spilling the beans.”
Mr Sharp indicated that he would have a meeting with Aiden close to the court date. Then he left the hospital. He needed divine intervention to win Elizabeth’s case against the Taylor family’s elite lawyers.
Mr Sharp went to the police station to press charges against Jamie and Lily. The police officers found Jamie at the Havana Club. He was arrested in front of his lover who had been taking care of him for years.
After Jamie was arrested, Detective Stevens went to police custody to meet the suspects. Lily was brought to the interrogation room to meet Detective Stevens.
She had puffy red eyes and her face was haggard. She was cursing the day she started drinking alcohol. If she was sober she would never have landed herself in jail.
She was alone and everyone who used to love her dearly turned their backs on her after her parents passed away because of Avery. She was the root of everything bad that had happened to her.
Detective Stevens looked at Lily and said, “I am Detective Stevens, is it alright if I ask you a few questions, Miss Parker? Or do you want to have your lawyer present?”
Lily shook her head and replied, “I don’t have a lawyer yet. Please go ahead, I don’t have anything to hide.” She decided not to hire a lawyer because her future was bleak. She would need every cent to survive.
She answered all the questions truthfully and told Detective Stevens that she would be a State witness. She forwarded a voice recording where Jamie was instructing her to give Aunt Elizabeth the medicine during her pregnancy.
Then Jamie was brought to the interrogation room. He refused to utter a word without his lawyer present. He had asked his love to hire a lawyer for him, but she had refused. She told him that she would never forgive him for his betrayal.