CH.32

The grainy security footage flickered to life on the massive screen in the hushed courtroom.

Serena felt her stomach drop through the floor like a lead weight as the all-too-familiar scene began to unfold in gruesome detail before her eyes.

"Enough!" Alex's voice exploded from the speakers, his tall, imposing figure moving quickly to pull Serena's slender frame away from another woman by violently gripping her around the waist. "Do you want to kill her, Serena? Is that what you want?"

"Let go of me, you sick bastard!" Her own anguished scream tore through the uneasy quiet like a knife as she struggled against Alex's restraining hold with feral desperation.

Serena's lithe body twisted and thrashed, but he was too strong. "I'm going to deal with that lying snake once and for all today!"

On the screen, Serena lifted her knee with vicious force, jamming it directly into Alex's groin.

He crumpled instantly with a grunt of agonized pain and his grip finally loosened enough for her to bre