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Chapter 175
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Irene's smirk did not leave her face.She looked at Claire and then at Jeff and the smirk widened into something that had genuine pleasure in it, the pleasure of a woman who had been waiting a very long time to say something and had finally arrived at the moment."Zane." She cocked her head and said the name with relish.The room went very quiet."Zane is Matt's son." She said it clearly and without hurry. "He has always been Matt's son. From the very first day."Jeff stared at her and his legs threatened to give way.He did not speak because he was so furious that he was choking on it.He stood at the foot of the bed and glared hard at Irene, the colour of his face changed slowly, not all at once, but gradually, and Claire watched it change and felt the full weight of what was happening in the room.A part of her pitied him, he had been living with both Matt and Irene's son without knowing it.How rotten can a person be? Irene is that rotten to the core.Irene looked at Jeff's face a
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Claire walked into the hospital room at the exact moment the doctor finished speaking.She caught the last words just as she pushed the door open, we were unable to save the baby, and she saw Jeff standing at the foot of the bed, saw his face and then the doctor's face and she understood everything before anyone said another word.Jeff did not move when the news landed.He stood absolutely still with his hands clenched at his sides and his face doing nothing at all, not grief, not shock, just the complete stillness of a man who had been hit by something so large his body had not yet decided how to respond to it.The doctor said something else, something about Irene being stable, something about blood loss and recovery, and Jeff stood through it, he was hearing it but his brain was unable to comprehend, unable to go past the word, "we were unable to save the baby."He said nothing and the doctor left and the room was very quiet.Irene was in the bed with monitors attached and her face
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Callum Harte stood for the cross examination and every person in the courtroom felt the shift.The morning had belonged to the prosecution. Kirby, Mendez, the phone records, the bank transfers, all of it laid out with the precise unhurried confidence of a case that knew exactly what it was. Now it was Harte's turn and he stood with his quiet voice and his carefully constructed calm and the courtroom watched him the way people watched something they were not entirely sure about."Detective Huang." He said. "The recordings obtained by the private investigator. You described them as central to the prosecution's case.""They are significant evidence." Huang said."The investigator was paid by Claire Clark. The alleged victim.""Yes.""Placed deliberately inside my client's circle with the intention of gathering information against her.""He was employed to document criminal activity." Huang said. "Which he did.""He was employed by a woman with a direct personal interest in the outcome of
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Joe Kirby was the first witness.He was a small man in his fifties with a mechanic's hands and the face of someone who had not slept properly in a long time and when he was sworn in he looked at the floor rather than the courtroom.Ms Cartwright took him through it methodically.His name, his trade, his relationship to Matt Richardson."Mr Kirby." She said. "Can you tell the court what Matthew Richardson asked you to do in March of last year."Kirby looked at his hands."He asked me to cut the brake line on a vehicle." His voice was very flat. "A specific vehicle. He gave me the registration. He told me where it was parked.""Did he tell you why.""He said someone needed to be scared off." Kirby said. "He said it wouldn't kill anyone, just scare them.""Did you believe him."A pause."I didn't ask." Kirby said finally."Did he pay you.""Yes.""How much."Kirby named the figure."Mr Kirby." Ms Cartwright said. "Did Matthew Richardson tell you who had instructed him to arrange this?""
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The courthouse steps were already crowded when Jeff found Claire.She was standing to the side of the main entrance with Richard, her coat buttoned against the cold, her face composed in the particular way it went composed before something difficult, and when she saw Jeff coming toward her she said something to Richard who nodded and moved away.Jeff reached her and stopped in front of her."I need to tell you something." He said. "Before we go in."She looked at him and waited, from the look on his face, she felt she wouldn't like whatever it was that he wanted to say."I called Richard three days ago." He said, not exactly meeting her gaze. "About Irene. About the conditions for when she gives birth. I asked him to file an application for a minimum security medical arrangement. So she doesn't give birth in prison."Claire looked at him.The composure on her face did not change but something behind her eyes shifted and Jeff almost shivered at the coldness in her gaze."You did that."
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Zane had eaten more at dinner than Jeff expected.The food had done what food always did for children, brought him back into his body after the emotion of the afternoon, he had worked through his plate with a focused quietness that told Jeff the crying in the car park had taken everything out of him.He went to bed without being asked at half past eight.Jeff stood in the kitchen doorway and listened to his footsteps on the stairs and the quiet close of his bedroom door and then the villa was completely still.He made coffee he did not particularly want and sat at the kitchen table and let the stillness sit around him for a while.He thought about Zane's face in the back of the car.She's going to have the baby in there. My baby sister is going to be born in a prison cell.He thought about the way Zane had grabbed his jacket with both fists like holding on hard enough might make Jeff change his mind about something.He thought about the promise he had made.Then he picked up his phone
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