Chapter 61 The Verdict
The defense rested on Friday after two weeks of methodically destroying the prosecution’s case.
Closing arguments were scheduled for Monday. Then the jury would deliberate.
Ariella spent the weekend in a fog, barely eating, barely sleeping, replaying every moment of testimony in her head. The ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 June Morning
2. Chapter 2 The Frost Palace
3. Chapter 3 The proposal
4. Chapter 4 The Impossible Offer
5. Chapter 5 You Matter
6. Chapter 6 Breaking Point
7. Chapter 7 Whatever you Decide
8. Chapter 8 The Contract
9. Chapter 9 Like yesterday
10. Chapter 10 meaningless syllables.
11. Chapter 11 How Marriage Works
12. Chapter 12 Let me go
13. Chapter 13 Collision Course
14. Chapter 14 The Performance Begins
15. Chapter 15 Where was your first kiss?
16. Chapter 16 The First Crack
17. Chapter 17 Good at pretending
18. Chapter 18 Moving Day
19. Chapter 19 Beautiful prison
20. Chapter 20 An invitation
21. Chapter 21 The Masks Crumble
22. Chapter 22 Partnership
23. Chapter 23 Stronger Together
24. Chapter 24 Slow-Burn Bonding
25. Chapter 25 A New Era
26. Chapter 26 The Midpoint Kiss
27. Chapter 27 The ghost of his kiss
28. Chapter 28 Something stupid Or honest
29. Chapter 29 The Big Secret Drops
30. Chapter 30 Soldiers in a Revenge plot
31. Chapter 31 A Dying manipulator
32. Chapter 32 The Unraveling
33. Chapter 33 A reason to hate him more
34. Chapter 34 I hope you save each other
35. Chapter 35 The Funeral
36. Chapter 36 Is this the beginning of space?
37. Chapter 37 No decisions yet.
38. Chapter 38 Separate Paths, Day one
39. Chapter 39 Day Two
40. Chapter 40 Day Four
41. Chapter 41 The Truth Comes Out
42. Chapter 42 Home
43. Chapter 43 The Fallout
44. Chapter 44 The Price of Justice
45. Chapter 45 The Cage Tightens
46. Chapter 46 The Arrest
47. Chapter 47 The Bail Hearing
48. Chapter 48 Breaking Point
49. Chapter 49 The Witness
50. Chapter 50 Glimpse of Hope
51. Chapter 51 The Reversal
52. Chapter 52 The Media Blitz
53. Chapter 53 Protective Custody
54. Chapter 54 Trapped Together
55. Chapter 55 The Long Wait
56. Chapter 56 The same Routine
57. Chapter 57 The Trial Begins
58. Chapter 58 What if we lose
59. Chapter 59 The Testimony
60. Chapter 60 Planting Doubts
61. Chapter 61 The Verdict
62. Chapter 62 This isn’t over
63. Chapter 63 Sentencing
64. Chapter 64 A Choice
65. Chapter 65 Moving Forward
66. Chapter 66 One Year Later
67. Chapter 67 Thanksgiving
68. Chapter 68 The Unexpected
69. Chapter 69 We are broke
70. Chapter 70 Elena
71. Chapter 71 Abandoning the plan entirely
72. Chapter 72 The New Normal
73. Chapter 73 Is this Enough
74. Chapter 74 The Letter
75. Chapter 75 Verification
76. Chapter 76 The Visitor
77. Chapter 77 The mole
78. Chapter 78 The Safe House
79. Chapter 79 More Threats
80. Chapter 80 The Recording
81. Chapter 81 The Exchange
82. Chapter 82 The Aftermath
83. Chapter 83 Death Threats
84. Chapter 84 Saints and Monsters
85. Chapter 85 The Contingency
86. Chapter 86 Dead man’s switch
87. Chapter 87 The Trade
88. Chapter 88 Emergency succession
89. Chapter 89 The Broadcast
90. Chapter 90 New Threat
91. Chapter 91 Omega
92. Chapter 92 Omega 2
93. Chapter 93 The Reckoning
94. Chapter 94 Normal Milestone
95. Chapter 95 The warning
96. Chapter 96 The Inside Man
97. Chapter 97 The Search
98. Chapter 98 The Trap
99. Chapter 99 The Game Ending
100. Chapter 100 Struggle for life
101. Chapter 101 Recovery.
102. Chapter 102 The First Birthday
103. Chapter 103 Three Years Later
104. Chapter 104 The original contract
105. Chapter 105 The Hidden Room
106. Chapter 106 Find me
107. Chapter 107 I've been waiting
108. Chapter 108 The Flaw
109. Chapter 109 Protocol Terminus
110. Chapter 110 Protocol Terminus Activation
111. Chapter 111 This is Danger
112. Chapter 112 The Spotlight
113. Chapter 113 Day Seven
114. Chapter 114 Borrowed time
115. Chapter 115 Fractures
116. Chapter 116 The Contingency Vote
117. Chapter 117 The Offer
118. Chapter 118 The Name
119. Chapter 119 The Alliance
120. Chapter 120 The Leak
121. Chapter 121 The Alliance
122. Chapter 122 The Anniversary
123. Chapter 123 After
124. Chapter 124 The Letter
125. Chapter 125 The results
126. Chapter 126 Integration
127. Chapter 127 Big Brother
128. Chapter 128 Five Years Later
129. Chapter 129 Epilogue: Ten Years After
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