Chapter 70

The court proceedings began as the judge took his seat. It was going to be a long day filled with questioning and accusations.

Sheena's heart would be made to bleed gruesomely with repeated accusations leveled against her. She stood in the box, eyes sad, face drawn as she readied herself for the next rounds of drills.

She looked around the room and the only support she had was her father and her sister. Every other person was on the opposite side, against her.

The one person she would have wanted to be there to support her was nowhere to be found. Jake had not returned since after he saved her from the locked room.

She was worried sick about him. She had questioned Elena severally about him. Sheena was always on Elena's neck to inquire from Oscar -whom she had begun dating- the whereabouts of his best friend.

The thought of Elena and Oscar would have made her smile if she weren't so consumed in her problems. She recalled how Elena had countlessly refuted her attraction to Oscar, but l