He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 26
That afternoon, Adrian’s lawyer called me to the stand.
“When you left the estate, you took a large quantity of prescription medication with you, correct?”
“Yes.”
“And when Mr. Julian Blackwood died, his room was locked from the inside, and his phone was missing.”
My fingertips went cold.
In the gallery, Lily shot to her feet.
The doctor immediately pulled her back down.
The lawyer fixed his eyes on me.
“Before Mr. Blackwood’s death, you publicly shouted, ‘I’ll kill you,’ did you not?”
“Yes.”
“So you hated him.”
“Yes.”
“And you hated Mr. Adrian Blackwood as well.”
“Yes.”
As if he had finally found his opening, his voice rose sharply.
“And that is why you set a trap in Cold Spring and induced him to say those things.”
I looked at Adrian.
There was no triumph on his face. Only a deep, buried pain.
So he had known his lawyer would use Julian’s death to blackmail me.
That was why he had told me I would regret this.
He thought I was still the old Nora.
That as long as my sister stood trembling behind me, I would swallow every word and back down.
I looked away from him.
“I did hate him.”
“But I never put a single word in Adrian’s mouth.”
The lawyer frowned.
The prosecutor submitted the full, unedited recording from Cold Spring to the court.
In the sound of the falling rain, all I had asked was why the children should belong to the Blackwood family.