Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 146

Chapter 146: Loss.

Caelum.

My guilt was eating deep into me. In fact, it was drilling holes into my soul as I watched Leilani’s lawyer deliver the blow that was nothing but the truth.

"...We are also suing for bullying which made my client here suffer from emotional, physical and psychological distress..." She had said, and those words, every damn one of them was nothing but the truth.

We had been mean to Leilani— more than mean to her and had treated her in the worst ways possible, especially me.

Whenever I remembered the things we— I— did to her, the way I hurt her time and time again because of Chalice, I couldn’t help but feel like a complete fool; like a shameless bastard... and I couldn’t even look her in the eyes because of it.

My heart lurched in my chest when Leilani’s lawyer walked up to the front where the judge sat, she handed him a large brown Manila envelope and said loudly; "These are the evidence of her abuse."

I froze.

Like my entire body completely went stiff because I knew then and there that we would lose this case. I knew the extent to which we had hurt her... knew how inhumane our methods had been, and if she had kept those... all of it for a time like this, then this case was completely lost because no judge with a thread of conscience would not protect her from us.

No one would see the things we did to her and let us go freely.

Without thinking, I rose to my feet, ignoring the way my brothers watched me with eagle eyes and said; "I don’t think we need to go into that."

The judge cocked his eyebrows at me but said nothing. Truthfully, we had the resources to overturn this case, but I’d rather hang from the Statue of Liberty than hurt Leilani one more time by doing something like that.

I said; "We plead guilty."

Kael and Zevran froze. Even Leilani looked like she couldn’t quite believe her eyes— not like I could blame her.

"We did the things that she said we did and more. So let’s bring this to an—"

"Do you know what you’re saying?" Our lawyer hissed from beside me, his tone sharp as he stared pointedly at me. If I was a lesser man, I knew that by now, he would be lecturing me about the cons of my actions, but now, he could only shake in his boots as he pointed to a paragraph in a document I had zero interest in looking at.

"She’s suing you for two hundred million, and if you agree... you’d need to pay that money ASAP. Do you understand that?"

I looked away. "I do."

"Good. So let me do my job, Alpha, please. This isn’t worth losing that much amount of money for."

His words and the condescending manner with which he seemed to talk about this issue with Leilani rubbed off on me in the wrong way; and in annoyance, I grabbed a fistful of his collar and spat;

"She is worth losing that much money for. And just so you know, we’re not really ’losing’ it. We’re paying for the things we did to her. This is our karma."

Truthfully, I had half expected Kael and Zevran to not agree with me so when they both rose to their feet, saying almost the same things I’d just said but with different words, I was momentarily stunned.

Leilani’s eyes widened as she turned to us, but after that initial shock, she showed no emotion afterwards.

She didn’t look happy or sad. Or angry or even frustrated.

She simply turned to her lawyer and whispered something to her.

Her lawyer nodded briefly and turned back to the judge, her voice cold as she spat; "The restraining order is necessary and should be signed too, because it is the only way my client feels she will be safe from them."

I froze.

Safe from us.

How? Why?

What does she even mean by that?

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