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Chapter 576
Chapter 576:
June lifted her eyes to his. There was no fear in them. There was only a cold, absolute, and entirely dangerous resolve.
“Then let them drag it out,” she said, her voice vibrating with quiet, lethal certainty. “I don’t lack money. And I don’t lack patience. I will see those two in a concrete cell p>
Easton held her gaze. A flash of deep admiration crossed his face, followed immediately by something that looked like pain. He gave her a single, firm nod.
At that moment, the secure internal line on his desk emitted a sharp, piercing ring.
ոо𝗏𝘦𝗅s 𝗶ո 𝘵𝘳𝘦n𝘥 𝗼𝗻 ѕ.𝖼𝗼𝗺
Easton frowned, muttered a brief apology to June, and pressed the speaker.
“Easton.” The voice of the firm’s senior managing partner crackled through — strained, heavy with the particular tone of a man delivering news he wishes he didn’t have. “The judge just signed the bail order. In chambers p>
“What?!” The word came out of Easton like something that had been under pressure for too long. He drove his hand flat onto the desk. “The bail hearing wasn’t scheduled until tomorrow morning p>
“The Dream Team bypassed the standard docket,” the partner said. “Cole’s people have been working this for twenty-four hours, pulling in favors through channels so dark I doubt even Eleanor knows they exist. The judge wasn’t bribed — he was coerced. He signed the order an hour ago. Bail was set at ten million dollars. The wire hit the court’s escrow account five minutes ago p>
Easton cut the call.
His chest rose and fell in a hard, controlled rhythm. The veins along his neck stood out against his collar. He turned slowly to look at June.
The words came out like ash.
“They are out p>
June’s arms dropped to her sides. Her hands closed into tight fists, fingernails pressing deep into her palms. The sharp, stinging pain grounded her. She needed it.
The people who had tortured and killed Snowball had just walked out of prison.
Easton snatched his suit jacket from the back of his chair.
“I have to get to the courthouse right now,” he said, his voice stripped down to pure precision. “I need to find out exactly which judge signed that order in chambers and under what pressure. Wait here p>
He was through the glass door before she could respond, the door swinging shut hard behind him.
The heavy glass door clicked shut, and a suffocating silence settled over the office.
June stood perfectly still before the floor-to-ceiling window, staring out at the concrete canyons of Manhattan. Her spine was straight, her stillness absolute — the eerie, pressurized calm of a black ocean in the hours before a hurricane makes landfall.
Sloane couldn’t hold it. She began to pace, her heels driving into the thick carpet in a dull, repetitive rhythm.
“This is absolute insanity!” she said, throwing her hands up. “Ten million dollars in cash to bail out two psychotic animal killers? Has Cole completely lost his mind p>
June turned around slowly.
Her face was a mask of perfect, terrible composure.