Chapter 372

Lemira smirked. “Since you’re so concerned about me not finding a lawyer, why don’t you just admit to the judge that it was all your doing? Then I won’t need a lawyer at all.”

Alaric instantly clammed up.

“What, cat got your tongue? Weren’t you all ‘big brother knows best’ a second ago? Now that it’s actually for my benefit, you’re not so keen?”

Lemira’s words cut deep, landing straight in Alaric’s heart.

Taking a deep breath, Alaric said, “Lemira, come on, I’m your brother. Are you really going to throw me under the bus?”

He knew he had messed up before. He also realized Evelina was no saint. Why couldn’t Lemira just give him a chance to make things right?

Lemira laughed. “Let’s get one thing straight. You’re taking the fall for Evelina’s schemes, pushed into the spotlight by Asher. It’s not me trying to lock you away. They are the ones who want you behind bars, to carry their sins.”

Maric’s face paled, struggling to maintain composure. Choking up, he said, “I truly want to make it up to you.”

Lemira felt a wave of disgust. Why couldn’t these people be genuine? Why the facade?

Fuming, she turned to Alaric. “Alright, you want a chance to make amends? Turn yourself in to the judge.”

After Lemira’s suggestion, she saw Alaric’s face freeze, then quickly avoid her gaze. See? This was his so-called ‘making amends.’ Apologies wrapped in insincerity, as nauseating as expired medicine.

Lemira’s lips curled in a cold smirk. “What’s the matter? Can’t do it?”

Alaric stumbled over his words. “It’s not that I can’t, but if I’m locked up, how can I make it up to you?”

“Your imprisonment will be the biggest amends. After that, I might consider overlooking everything you’ve done before. How about it?”

Alaric fell silent again.

Just then, Asher turned around and loudly said, “Alaric, what are you dawdling for? Why bother with someone so ungrateful?”

Alaric sent Lemira a guilty glance before following Asher, his steps awkward. Lemira watched his retreating back with a mocking expression.

The manager approached, his expression complex. “Lemira, how can your family be so deceitful?”

No real apologies. No sincerity in making amends. All these supposed gestures of reconciliation came at the expense of Lemira’s interests. What kind of family was this?

Seeing her colleagues’ expressions, Lemira said, “I’m used to it. I know what they’re like. Let’s go, we should head in too.”

She had messaged Thaddeus earlier, and he had said the lawyer would arrive soon. With that in mind, there was nothing to fear.

Lemira and her colleagues entered the courtroom. Asher and Alaric were already seated, with a lawyer organizing a hefty stack of documents beside them. Lemira and the manager took their seats, but their lawyer was still absent.

The judge asked Lemira, “When will your lawyer arrive?”

Lemira replied, “Any minute now, they’re on their way.”

Asher’s tone was light. “Don’t tell me they’re too scared to show, deliberately stalling? Lemira, you know you can’t win. Why not settle now? What do you want?”

Leinira ignored Asher.

Just then, someone entered. “Sorry for the delay.”

Asher saw a middle-aged man with glasses and exclaimed, “Mr. Alfred?”

Mr. Alfred was known as a legal shark in the lawyer community. Currently, he was the chief legal counsel for the prestigious Everhart family. Why would he take on Maple Group’s case, which was considered small fry?