Ella
The final week of trial passed in a blur of testimony, cross-examination, and the particular exhaustion of sitting each day in a courtroom that had, by now, become a kind of second home neither Kylian nor I had chosen but had learned to navigate all the same.
Lucas testified about the financial trail he'd traced, methodical and unshakeable under cross-examination, walking the jury through months of shell companies and diverted merger funds with a clarity that made even the most complex transactions feel damning in their simplicity. Danika followed, presenting the falsified weather report from my parents' accident alongside the maintenance records that contradicted the official explanation for Sophia's brakes, careful to note where evidence was conclusive and where it remained circum
