Pregnant I left him To His First Love novel Chapter 174

“In light of new evidence that has appeared, this court hearing will be adjourned by two weeks and we will reconvene at exactly 11am,” Judge Bruce slams his gavel.

“All rise,” The clerk announces as he leaves and everyone begins to file out.

Trent storms out of the courtroom in fury, muttering curses and Carmela runs after him, reaching him in the corridor of the courtroom.

“Father, wait.”

“You bloody fool,” Trent snarls at her. “I thought you said you and that incapable bastard went through everything that they could use against us today, why didn’t you know about the bloody masts?”

“I’m sorry, I thought we had it all covered, but don’t worry, we will still get them, they’re not going to win this,” Carmela replies in a petrified tone.

Trent scoffs coldly. “I shouldn’t worry?” He grabs her chin and shoves her against the wall, squeezing it painfully, his eyes cold and deadly as he narrows them at her.

“I made a fool of myself today and I don’t like making a fool of myself. I’ve worked too hard and too long to get to where I am today for anyone to ruin it,” he lets her go roughly as tears pour down Carmela’s eyes but he isn’t done.

“My word directly contradicted proven evidence today and if this kind of thing happens again, fingers will start pointing towards me and if that happens, it’s over for you as well. You shouldn’t have come to me with evidence to frame Liana if you didn’t have everything covered.”

He whispers, his voice low but full of palpable rage.

“I’m sorry,” Carmela mutters in tears, her heart clenching with pain.

Her father is quick to chastise her but he has everything that he wanted, power, wealth and status while she has nothing but a ring and a phoenix title that the pack members are becoming disenchanted with.

Tatum doesn’t even love her, despite the fake mate bond and he doesn’t hide it. He won’t even—

Her heart thuds with fear as a thought suddenly comes to her mind.

The evidence she found against Liana was not of her doing, she found it laying on Tatum’s office table carelessly that day and she took pictures of it.

Now that she thinks about it, sensitive archived information about the pack’s high ranking members are well protected, did Tatum leave it there on purpose for her to see, knowing she would take advantage of it?

“Good, keep taking the medicine, we’ll kill the bitch after we send her mother to jail,” Trent replies and walks away from her.

As he leaves, Carmela sees Leila staring at her with a victorious smirk on Leila’s face and she almost flips in rage.

“What the fuck are you looking at?!”

The smirk on Leila’s face morphs into a thin smile before she takes Kelvin’s hand and is about to leave the building when Carmela yells again.

“We haven’t forgotten that you killed the pack witch, you murderer! After your mother, you’re next!”

“Leila don’t—”

Before Kelvin can stop Leila, she is already walking towards Carmela but there is no sign of anger or annoyance on Leila’s face, rather a smug smile.

“You know what I see when I look at you Carmela? A mouse, caught in a trap, knowing it has no way out, so all it can do is squeal and squeal and squeal, hoping someone will come to rescue it but that is foolish of the mouse because the cat, no, the phoenix is on the prowl and she’ll get you, just you wait,” Leila says in a low tone, almost like a whisper, her face rid of any form of hostility.