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The one where she makes a plea

~ Bella ~

Eliza gasped. My heart broke. I didn't even hear the rest of the judge's statement. I couldn't hear it over the roaring in my ears.

It was all I could so to put my hand around Eliza who was sobbing with renewed vigour.

I looked over her shoulder at Benedict and Clarisse and saw that they were both crying in earnest now too.

They looked so small and frail...so broken, so different from the children who took to the stand earlier with brave faces.

It was so obvious now that they were devastated even though they'd asked to stay with their dad.

It made me wonder just what he'd said to them to make them say that on the stand.

Obviously they didn't like him or want to stay with him. He couldn't have threatened them, could he? They were just children for god sake!

Marcus got up and started walked towards us. Eliza immediately cowered down again.

It broke my heart that she was living in such fear.

'How had she survived these past seven years?' I wondered.

To have to live in such c
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