Chapter 147: No Way Out

Meanwhile, Lily was sitting in her prison room as she had cried her eyes out. She already had dark circles under her eyes, and she just sat there thinking to herself, “Now I'm really fucked up. My mom and my dad are not even ready to help me. James left me, and I lost the one opportunity I had with him. Now. Now dad won't even agree to bring me out of this prison yard. I wish I was just free. I would have found a solution to all of my problems. Now there's nothing I can do, stuck here in this prison room. Nothing at all. I wish I had been a little bit polite to my dad. But then, who does he think he is? I wouldn't even be here to beg him. I really wouldn't beg him if he thinks that's what makes him keep me locked up in jail. I’d rather stay here than apologize to him. I bet sooner or later he will get me out of here, and I will be free from this place.”

Once again, her thoughts to herself were interrupted when a prison guard, whom she always relied on for information, came to knock at her door and informed her that the judge had decided to rush the case and the final hearing would be aired tomorrow. She was really happy, and she immediately realized that her dad had decided to help her and she was going to come out of prison very, very soon. “If possible, I might come out of this place tomorrow,” she thought to herself as she felt very happy and cleaned her tears.

She decided to sleep so she would look much better tomorrow and get rid of the dark circles that were under her eyes. “I thought to myself,” she mused as she drifted off to sleep.

The following day, she was awakened by the prison guard who came to take her to the court for the hearing, and she was surprised. “Why is the judge really rushing the case like this to call for a hearing this early?” she thought to herself. “I should remember that my dad might have already threatened the judge with something that made him fear him like this. I was trying to rush the case immediately in order to get her out of prison,” she thought as she was being escorted by prison guards to the courts.

She was feeling very happy as she would be free again like she once was. “I’ll go back to a comfortable bed and a comfortable room, and I missed my room so much. The first thing I'm going to do is find out a way to apologize to James and regain his love back,” she thought to herself as she was smiling to herself inside her prison room.

Then the guards took her and she was escorted into the court as she met James and Alex at the steps of the court's entrance. She glanced at James and smiled as James just looked at her with disdain in his eyes while Alex also looked at her and scoffed.

“I just entered the prison. James, don’t worry, I'm coming to get you,” she muttered to herself as she was being escorted into the court.

The hearing began, and the judge immediately asked for the victim of the case, but she was nowhere to be found. Alex immediately stood up and answered that Isabella was in the hospital as she was not feeling fine. He didn't want the court to know that Isabella was in a coma so as not to affect the hearing. “I believe that sooner or later she will wake up before the court hearing comes to an end,” he thought to himself and decided to just mark it off as she was not feeling fine to the judge.

The judge looked at him, but before he could even say anything, the prosecutor stood up and said, “My lord, she is not in a state to appear in court today. But I promise you, let’s just try to adjourn the case, please, until my client is well and healthy to come to court.”

He said to the judge as the judge immediately dismissed him. “No, I can't accept that. This is the final hearing. This case has gone on too long, and I'm ending it right here and now. Today I'm going to dismiss this case if the victim does not appear in court right now,” he said.

The prosecutor was dumbfounded and couldn't say anything. He just looked at Alex's direction in despair and couldn't say anything to the judge anymore as he felt that they were losing this case already, and there was no way back. He immediately understood that Lily's father might have already bribed the judge,” he thought to himself. That could only describe the judge's behavior as to why he wanted to end the case when it was not yet time for him to end it.

James immediately stood up and begged the judge, “Please, just adjourn the case. Isabella is in a coma right now. She can't really appear in court.”

He said to the judge, pleading with him to adjourn the case, maybe just for two or three days, as Isabella would likely come around by then. James tried to explain to the judge, but the judge wouldn't buy any of it. “I'm not going to give it another day. This case is going to end today, and I'm giving my judgment right now,” he said.