When They Beg I Rise (Lemira) novel Chapter 1094

Lemira met her glare with icy composure. "Then I'm afraid you're going to be very disappointed today."

Shortly after the session began, Amelia Sinclair was led into the courtroom wearing a prison uniform.

She looked far more haggard than the last time, her complexion pale and sickly.

When she spotted Amanda in the gallery, a wave of stark terror flashed across her face. "Are you really going to push for my execution?" she cried out. "We were best friends for years!"

Amanda simply stared at her with a chilling apathy, refusing to waste a single breath on a response. She was saving all her energy for the moment she took the stand to expose her former friend's treacherous poisoning.

After a brief struggle and a stern warning from the bailiff, Amelia was finally forced into the defendant's seat.

She kept her head bowed, trembling violently as if consumed by some unseen horror.

Watching this from the gallery, Sophia frowned in confusion. What was going on? Was there something else her mother had been hiding?

Susanna also sensed the shifting atmosphere. "Sophia, what else did Mom do?"

"How the hell should I know?"

Sophia snapped, her anxiety mounting. Whatever it was, it couldn't be good.

It didn't take long for the truth to drop like an anvil. Moments into the proceedings, Sebastian Bennett brought forward the explosive allegation of Amelia poisoning Amanda, backing it up with irrefutable evidence.

The attending physician whom Amelia had bribed took the stand, detailing step-by-step how Amelia had orchestrated the poisoning.

Hearing the doctor's testimony, Sophia was rocked to her core.

"Poisoning? How is that even possible?"

The moment she had learned her closest friend had been slipping her poison, their decades of friendship had been dead and buried.

The next witness called to the stand was Hale.

However, the defense attorney quickly pivoted, bringing up the claim that Evelina had been pregnant with Evander's child, attempting to paint Hale's testimony as inherently biased.

In response, Sebastian calmly produced the official paternity test results, proving definitively that the child Evelina had been carrying belonged to no one in the Langston family.

Hale's eyes widened in sheer disbelief when he heard the revelation. "If the baby wasn't a Langston, then whose the hell was it?"

Lucian offered a mocking smile. "It certainly wasn't ours. We only realized recently that Evelina had been spinning a web of lies."

A dark, frantic realization flashed through Hale's eyes. "I need to see Evelina. Now."