A Call That Changed Her Entire Life novel Chapter 257

Tina's conviction got quashed very quickly after the courts declared that she was not guilty by reason of insanity. Therefore, she was only liable for civil compensation and not criminal liability. The judges sent her to a famed mental institution in Jingshi City.

The prosecution charged Mark as an 'accessory after the fact' for covering up and dumping the bodies for Tina. However, after Mark's shrewd attorney managed to disprove the prosecution's half-hearted evidence, Mark was acquitted of all charges.

This wouldn't be the first time in legal history that something like this had happened. A few years ago, the same attorney represented a murderer in court and managed to turn the conviction and restore his client's reputation. Compared to that, since the evidence against Mark wasn't competent enough, this case was going to be a walk in park for him.

Since most of the clients this attorney represented were morally questionable, his actions had been the subject to some controversy and criticism from fellow attorneys. While this earned him a bad reputation amongst his peers, it also gained him notoriety in the press.

With his help, Mark Tao was acquitted of all charges. However, by then it was already too late for the Tao family, as they had lost public trust within the people of the city and their stock values suffered the steepest fall in their company's illustrious history. Mark's arrest damaged the Tao company's reputation so severely that it would difficult for them to recover in such a short amount time.

Emily was furious when she heard the news. 'What?! No criminal liability because of the mental illness?!

Then who is going to take the responsibility for my parents' death?! Is that it? Who wants Tina's compensation?

I am never going to get my parents back!'

Honestly, Emily could have killed Tina for a thousand times. Emily wanted to know if Tina had a heart. 'Is she even human? If she really is human, then how could she be so cruel?' she wondered.

The news of the Tao's trial did not satisfy Jacob either. Discontented, he said, "Trying to escape judgment by hiding in a mental institution? Wretched woman! Tina, I will make you regret living in this world"

The worst kind of punishment was the kind which made the victims beg for death.

After Mr. and Mrs. Bai's funeral was over...

Jacob arranged for the nicest caskets and the best funeral service in all of Jingshi City. He spared no expense to provide Emily's parents with a proper and respectable burial, as they were buried next to each other upon Emily's request.

Emily stood in front of their headstones with tear-soaked eyes, and swollen cheeks. She knelt down and laid a white rose on their graves.

"Mom...Dad..." her voice trembled. With no more words, she looked at the picture on the tablet tenderly. They looked so peaceful, and she didn't want to disturb them.

Jacob stood next to her in silence. He still had a grudge against Emily's parents for not treating her well, so he decided not to kneel before them.

However, out of respect for the dead and Emily, just this once, he tried to show his respect for the couple who had raised Emily to be such an upstanding woman. His silence, was his way of showing his respect.

Jacob was right next to Emily at her saddest moment, and from now on, he was all she had.

Soon, rain dropped from a sky of white velvet, soft and steady.

Emily was feeling tired. The cold washed over her skin to meet the warmth of her blood, wicking away body heat faster than it was replaced. Her parents had left a void in her heart that needed to be filed. A never ending dark void that consumed her, leaving her feeling nothing.

Kissed by the rain and glistening, the wet ground was cold under foot. Jacob took off his coat and placed it over Emily's head, before picking her up from the ground. "Time to go, Emily," he said.

Emily took one last look at the picture on the tablet and whispered, "Mom, Dad, I have to go now.

In the next life, I pray that you never come across Tina... Nor me."

Jacob took Emily to the car and sat her down in the passenger's seat. Softly splashing water droplets hit the car windows as they drove onwards. She gazed out the rain blurred window to see the dark sky and the street lights reflecting in every single drop, making it look like a speck of gold.

Moments later, Emily's voice broke the silence, "How I wish that Karma was real."