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Chapter 575
Chapter 575:
Easton stood with his back to the floor-to-ceiling windows, broad shoulders rigid, his right hand gripping a thick stack of legal documents so tightly his knuckles had gone white.
“What happened?” June asked. Her voice was steady, but something in her eyes cooled immediately. She crossed directly to the mahogany desk.
Easton turned to face her. His expression was darker than she had ever seen it.
He said nothing. He simply raised his arm and brought the stack of papers down onto the polished wood with a hard, flat crack.
June picked them up and scanned the top page. It bore the official seal of the New York State Supreme Court. The title read: Motion to Challenge Bail and Jurisdiction.
Her eyes moved to the section listing defense counsel.
It wasn’t a name. It was a dense block of text — over a dozen senior partners, each one among the most expensive, most ruthless, and most consistently undefeated corporate litigators in New York.
“That is the Compton Group’s Dream Team,” Easton said, his voice dropping to something low and tightly controlled. He was grinding his teeth.
𝗜n𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗇t ac𝖼eѕs 𝗈𝘯 𝗀𝗮𝘭ոо𝘷𝘦𝗅𝗌.сo𝗺
Behind June, Sloane sucked in a sharp breath. “Is Cole insane?!” she said, the words echoing in the quiet office. “He is deploying a billion-dollar corporate defense team to bail out two psychotic animal abusers p>
June didn’t look up. Her eyes moved steadily through the text, absorbing the architecture of legal loopholes the opposing counsel had constructed with obvious precision. The document argued that the property rights of the location where Snowball was killed were currently subject to a complex corporate dispute — and therefore the NYPD’s initial evidence collection was procedurally compromised.
“They aren’t simply pursuing bail,” Easton said, his voice tight with suppressed fury. “They’re using this fabricated jurisdictional argument as a wedge. Their next step is a motion to dismiss the animal cruelty charges in their entirety p>
June lowered the document slowly.
She closed her eyes. She drew a long, deliberate breath of cool, conditioned air into her lungs.
When she opened her eyes again, the temperature of her gaze had reached something absolute. It was beyond anger now — it was a deep, stomach-turning nausea, the purest form of disgust she had ever felt directed at another human being.
She had always known Cole was cold. She had known he was selfish and controlled by his obsessions. But she had never imagined his moral floor could be this low.
“He is doing this for a fraud,” June said. Her voice was as flat and precise as a blade. “He is willing to trample on the most basic human decency to satisfy Alycia p>
“He doesn’t have a soul,” Sloane said, shaking visibly.
Easton came around the desk and stopped directly in front of June, his expression carrying the full weight of what he was about to say.
“June, this is no longer a standard criminal prosecution,” he said. “This is capital being used to crush the judicial process. The Compton legal department has an unlimited budget. They can drag every procedural motion out for years — until the DA runs out of resources and drops the case entirely p>