Branch One Hundred and Thirty Four

Xavier had made it clear that neither he nor Jessica wished to settle. He said that if he did not make Emma and her friend in crime examples to the city then others would go ahead to commit the same crime of slandering people without remorse.

Emma who had been on a high horse suddenly felt her world crash before her. She was going to have a record left on her clean slate because she tried to get back at her.

"See what you dragged me into," Steve said calmly that it was almost scary.

"I dragged you into this" Emma laughed with a hinge of a howl. "You wanted to do it if you did not want to do it when I suggested it you should have backed out," she told him narrowing her eyes.

She could not stand adding more blame to what she was already feeling. As it stands she was already so out of it that she did not need any extra drama.

"If we have to pay the penalty money you would have to be the one to pay. You were the source of the information" Steve said again.

He ran his hand through hi