Our Parents Pain Came With Love

Chapter 49

-KYLE BESS

“Honey”

I say walking into Clark’s office, her hair is tied up into a messy bun and she’s eating the back of her pen looking frustrated with whatever she is looking at

“Hey babe”

She says looking up at me, I walk over and sit opposite her

“Everything ok, you look stressed. What’s eating you?”

She exhales

“this”

She says sliding a file over to me, I scan it

“A woman killed her husband in cold blood after her husband had been abusing her for years. It's gruesome”

She explains

“And she admitted to having killed him?”

I ask her and she nods

“It was self defence”

 I shake my head

“That’s not how the court will look at it though, I mean from what I am seeing it's going to look premeditated babe”

She nods

“I know, I need to prove that this was not planned and it she really was just trying to defend herself. I keep going through this file and there's something I’m missing, I don’t know what”

She says throwing the pen on the table, I stand up and walk around the table and stanhd behind her placing my hands on her calves

“How about you breathe in slowly and let it out ok”

I say massaging her

“you really tense”

She sighs

“It's this case, it's frustrating me”

She says

“you going to win this case, you are going to prove her innocence and get her out record free”

I say and kiss her head

“I don’t know babe, I need a loophole or something. I mean look at this, look at these bruises”

She says holding up a picture of the woman beaten almost to death

“He almost killed her”

She says, I let out a sigh

“Can you imagine what she must have went through at the hands of that monster? Death was far too nice for him. he deserved to suffer until death. Look at this”

She says holding up a hospital report

“He raped her more than once and the cops never did anything. Her file disappeared even and now the one time she actually stands up to this bastard she’s the one that’s put on trial? It's not fair”