His 47 Seconds Of Silence Cost Him Everything Chapter 23
“You’re the one who told me she wasn’t pregnant!”
Evan sat in the witness chair, his face ashen.
“I did not.”
“You said she was just trying to use a baby to trap you!”
“I never said that.”
“Then why did you help me plan the test? Wasn’t that your message in the chat, saying we should make her really think something happened?”
The courtroom went still.
In her rush to throw blame onto Evan, she had personally authenticated the group chat and confirmed that what she called an accident had been staged from the very beginning.
My lawyer didn’t interrupt.
Only after Cassidy realized what she had said did he project the full group chat onto the screen.
Every instruction from her came right after Evan’s replies.
*Put the shoe on the dock.*
*Throw the life jacket farther out so she’ll believe it.*
*Linda, you go first. Mark, block her from going back inside.*
I had photographed those lines one by one in the clinic café.
When Linda was called to testify, she cried too hard to speak in full sentences.
The judge told her to take her time.
“Did you know the plaintiff was pregnant?”