FIRE AND ICE 🔥~~~~~~EPISODE 8
"I can't believe this. She really killed her grandfather and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole? Her lawyers must have been the most useless set of humans to live on earth. Even me, an idiot of law, could have handled her case better. Even though I couldn't prove her innocence, I could have appealed for a lesser punishment and labeled her crime as a mistake or self-defense. What type of a–"
"Call Smith," an emotionless voice sounded in Rex's ear.
"Eh, brother, did you say something?"
"Smith, call." He repeated in a more cold voice.
From his voice, Rex understood that he was angry and someone must be punished for his anger to subside and he wasn't going to be that idiot, so he hurriedly called Smith.
Fifteen minutes later, a man wearing a black suit, holding a black leather briefcase strode into the large sitting room that was lavishly decorated to give a cold and dull vibe.
"Mr. Maverick, young master Rex." The lawyer bowed to the two young men sitting on different brown couches.
"Hey, barrister Smith, it's been a long time we–"
"When did you return from Country A?" His cold and unfriendly voice cut Rex's words short.
Smith and Rex both turned to look at the man who had one long leg over the other with arms folded on his chest and emotionless eyes fixed on Smith.
"I– I couldn't make it on time and I was just about to board a plane to country A," He answered.
"Where did you go?" He asked.
"I was handling a complicated case in city F."
"So you are in the country." He nodded, then asked again. "Whose lawyer are you?"
"Your lawyer, Mr. Maverick."
"Do I pay you less?"
"No, Mr. Maverick."
"Did the case you ignored me for, paid you more than I pay?"
"No, boss, I'll bring Miss Jeslyn out of prison immediately, please give me one more week," he begged.
By now lawyer Smith was already starting to sweat. He knew he shouldn't have done that, but greed didn't let him abandon the case he was fighting.
He didn't even do research on the young lady he was told to rescue. After the call, he placed the phone down, hoping to tell his assistant to work on Miss Jeslyn's case, but it slipped his mind.
He actually thought Miss Jeslyn's case was long, so he was hoping to immediately handle it after he was done with the case he was on.
He just came back from city F and was making his findings on Miss Jeslyn's case when he discovered that the case was rushed and she had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Inside his briefcase lay documents that he intended to file for an appeal to the supreme court of country A with, but now, with Mr. Maverick looking like this, Smith feared that his future was dim.
Seeing his older brother looking this way, Rex lit a candle in his heart for lawyer Smith.
Although he didn't know what was going on, he was sure that Smith had done something unforgivable.
"Rex, call inspector Fin. Hand him the criminal record we have on lawyer Smith."
"Roger that." Rex didn't bother to ask anything or feel anything. He knew that whoever offended his brother wouldn't be going scot-free, but wait!
He slowly turned to look at his brother, like something just struck him.
"Brother, how d—did you know Jeslyn Lee?"
Maverick turned to glare at him and Rex immediately shut his mouth and pulled out his phone to make the call that would destroy lawyer Smith's life while his heart swelled with ecstasy to fish out more gossip from his brother.
The lawyer fell on his knees and begged. "Master Maverick, please I beg you, forgive me, I'm sorry, I promise to bring her out, please forgive me." He begged fervently, but Maverick wasn't paying him mind but was rather chatting with someone on his phone.
Lawyer Smith knew that asking for forgiveness from this devil in front of him was no use. He had never heard where a devil forgave someone before but only wanted to try his luck.
He turned to the smiling angel who was about to make the call that would ruin him and begged. "Young master Rex, please save me."
"Hehehe… you have handled some minor cases for my brother and you were privileged enough to know a few things he's capable of, yet you took him for granted because of greed. Handing you to the cops is because of his benevolence, so you should thank him. Hehehe…hello."
Lawyer Smith felt his knees had lost their strength and slowly fell back on his butts, looking dazed.
What did he say? Benevolence? His criminal case is numerous and he knows that the only outcome for him is a life imprisonment sentence.
However what these two brothers didn't know, or they know is that he had sent a whole lot of bad guys, including good guys to prison, so what will become of him if he meets them in jail? And Rex is telling him to be thankful? Isn't dying once better than getting tortured daily in jail?
Of course, Maverick knows and that's the exact reason he is sending Smith to prison. One was to experience how life in prison is for making Jeslyn, his wife, stay there, and the second is to punish him for disobeying him and putting others before himself.
Meeting those bad and good guys he sent to prison with his wicked mouth would be the best punishment for him.
Smith is one of the second-class criminal lawyers in Country M and has a lot of bad records that no one could find because he was under Maverick's protection, but now, he was doomed to condemnation.
"Brother, inspector Fin is glad and will be here with his men in a while."
Inspector Fin has been on lawyer Smith's case for a long time and he kept hitting a dead end, so getting such good news was certainly going to make him overjoyed.
"I don't want to see him, send him the record," Maverick said and stood up to head towards the stairs.
Rex sighed. "When are you two going to make up?... Ah, Smith, your end makes me laugh. But before your end comes, tell me the spicy news you have heard so far. What's going on with the…."
Maverick shook his head when he heard his brother forcing a dying man to tell him the latest gossip.
He dialed a number on his phone and waited for the person to answer before he said, "I have a case for you."
…
At the prison, Jeslyn was sitting with her friends when a wardeness called her.
"Prisoner Lee…69, you have a visitor."
Jeslyn was surprised. It's been a week already and nobody had come to pay her a visit, so who just remembered her?
"Little bunny, I hope that isn't your shitty family?" Yellow asked with a yawn.
"I doubt that." She got up from the grass she was sitting on in an open field where they were brought out to have fun and headed towards the wardeness.
Getting to the visitor's room, Jeslyn paused in her step when she saw the people waiting for her.
She turned around to leave, but the wardeness pushed her back in and locked the door from the outside.
Jeslyn chuckled. That's right. The Lee family, Zhou family, and Chen family are three rich families that have the power to bend the law in Rose City.
The Lee family is the richest in Rose City and the Chen is the fourth richest with the Zhou family being the seventh, of course, they can make the prison officers turn their eyes and outrightly destroy the rules governing visitation to inmates.
"Where are you going, sister?"
Jeslyn took a deep breath to calm down. This is her first confrontation with her family over the events that had happened. She isn't sure if she could remain firm but she has to do it. Nobody is on her side, so she should no longer care about who is hurting because of her.
She turned around and walked to sit on the empty chair in the dimmed room.
"Christine finally had the time to come see me today, I'm so honored." She said with sarcasm.
"You should be honored, sister. After what you have done, you should be honored that the family came to see you," Christine replied.
"When you mean family, you mean…?" Jeslyn slowly glanced over at the husband and wife sitting beside Christine and shook her head.
"Insolence!" Yelled the woman.
"I'd appreciate it if you don't yell my ears off. It's already difficult living in prison. Making me deaf would make it worse than it already is and I don't welcome that."
"Jeslyn! You are becoming more impertinent and I'm glad you are here. You can learn manners the hard way since your slutty mother forgot to teach you well–"
"Bang!"
"I dare you to say that again!" She slapped the table hard and stood up while giving Mr. Wales a death glare.
"It's not like it's not true though. Your mother was a promisc–"
Jeslyn cut the woman off and attacked her before she could say another bad word about her sweet mother.
"Only a ho* like you would know who a slut is. You should be hiding your ugly face behind coal rubbed on your face. Getting into a happy family with your flat butts and loose twat should make you a supreme b!tch–"
"Paah!"
The slap forced her face to turn. She touched the inside of her right cheek with her tongue. That heavy slap from her father was a tough one.
Her eyes stung with tears, but she had made a vow in court to never let these low-life people see her tears ever again.
So she stood brave and smiled at the man with blood trickling down the corner of her lower lips.
"Your slaps cannot silence me, nor will they silence the people. Everyone knows that your sweetheart is a wh*re!"
She said it! Jeslyn said it again in full this time.
Mr. Wales raised his hand to slap her again but he heard Christine say.
"Father, let it be. You and mother should excuse us for a while, I need to talk to sister."
Jeslyn rolled her eyes. Why did she not know that this hypocrite would make up with their father and his mistress?
Of course, she needs a mountain to rely on since none of the properties were given to her.
Jeslyn suddenly felt joy bubbling in her heart. Her mother and grandfather were good Judges of character. It was only a shame she didn't learn that from them.
Mr. Wales glared at Jeslyn before he pulled his angry wife and left.
Now, with Jeslyn and Christine alone in the room, Christine stared at Jeslyn for a long time before she sighed.
"Sister, how did you suddenly become so brave and could even say such vulgar words without batting an eyelid? You used to shy away from using such explicit words. Has a week in prison turned you ugly?"
"Thanks to you, dear sister, using explicit words has become a norm. But I tell you, that's not the only thing you should be worried about. Pray, I don't get out of here, or else, I will make every one of you pay for ruining my life.
You might have been convinced or confused but you are old and sensible enough to know that testifying against your only sister would ruin her forever."
"You are right, sister. Because I'm worried about you getting out of here somehow, that's why I made them freeze your account, and also, how wouldn't I know that testifying against you in court would ruin you? I'm 23, sister, so of course, I know that, but then, who again did you say told you that you were my only sister? Is your selective amnesia clouding that fact too?"
Jeslyn stared at her sister in disbelief. Yes, they have an older sister, born from their father and his mistress before he married Ms. Alice, but what shocked Jeslyn was that Christine had a hand in freezing her account!
Seeing how shocked Jeslyn looked, Christine laughed. "That's not the only thing that should make you shocked, dear Jeslyn. That's just the tip of the iceberg."
Christine stood up and started to slowly walk around the room while telling a story.
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"Call Smith," an emotionless voice sounded in Rex's ear.
"Eh, brother, did you say something?"
"Smith, call." He repeated in a more cold voice.
From his voice, Rex understood that he was angry and someone must be punished for his anger to subside and he wasn't going to be that idiot, so he hurriedly called Smith.
Fifteen minutes later, a man wearing a black suit, holding a black leather briefcase strode into the large sitting room that was lavishly decorated to give a cold and dull vibe.
"Mr. Maverick, young master Rex." The lawyer bowed to the two young men sitting on different brown couches.
"Hey, barrister Smith, it's been a long time we–"
"When did you return from Country A?" His cold and unfriendly voice cut Rex's words short.
Smith and Rex both turned to look at the man who had one long leg over the other with arms folded on his chest and emotionless eyes fixed on Smith.
"I– I couldn't make it on time and I was just about to board a plane to country A," He answered.
"Where did you go?" He asked.
"I was handling a complicated case in city F."
"So you are in the country." He nodded, then asked again. "Whose lawyer are you?"
"Your lawyer, Mr. Maverick."
"Do I pay you less?"
"No, Mr. Maverick."
"Did the case you ignored me for, paid you more than I pay?"
"No, boss, I'll bring Miss Jeslyn out of prison immediately, please give me one more week," he begged.
By now lawyer Smith was already starting to sweat. He knew he shouldn't have done that, but greed didn't let him abandon the case he was fighting.
He didn't even do research on the young lady he was told to rescue. After the call, he placed the phone down, hoping to tell his assistant to work on Miss Jeslyn's case, but it slipped his mind.
He actually thought Miss Jeslyn's case was long, so he was hoping to immediately handle it after he was done with the case he was on.
He just came back from city F and was making his findings on Miss Jeslyn's case when he discovered that the case was rushed and she had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Inside his briefcase lay documents that he intended to file for an appeal to the supreme court of country A with, but now, with Mr. Maverick looking like this, Smith feared that his future was dim.
Seeing his older brother looking this way, Rex lit a candle in his heart for lawyer Smith.
Although he didn't know what was going on, he was sure that Smith had done something unforgivable.
"Rex, call inspector Fin. Hand him the criminal record we have on lawyer Smith."
"Roger that." Rex didn't bother to ask anything or feel anything. He knew that whoever offended his brother wouldn't be going scot-free, but wait!
He slowly turned to look at his brother, like something just struck him.
"Brother, how d—did you know Jeslyn Lee?"
Maverick turned to glare at him and Rex immediately shut his mouth and pulled out his phone to make the call that would destroy lawyer Smith's life while his heart swelled with ecstasy to fish out more gossip from his brother.
The lawyer fell on his knees and begged. "Master Maverick, please I beg you, forgive me, I'm sorry, I promise to bring her out, please forgive me." He begged fervently, but Maverick wasn't paying him mind but was rather chatting with someone on his phone.
Lawyer Smith knew that asking for forgiveness from this devil in front of him was no use. He had never heard where a devil forgave someone before but only wanted to try his luck.
He turned to the smiling angel who was about to make the call that would ruin him and begged. "Young master Rex, please save me."
"Hehehe… you have handled some minor cases for my brother and you were privileged enough to know a few things he's capable of, yet you took him for granted because of greed. Handing you to the cops is because of his benevolence, so you should thank him. Hehehe…hello."
Lawyer Smith felt his knees had lost their strength and slowly fell back on his butts, looking dazed.
What did he say? Benevolence? His criminal case is numerous and he knows that the only outcome for him is a life imprisonment sentence.
However what these two brothers didn't know, or they know is that he had sent a whole lot of bad guys, including good guys to prison, so what will become of him if he meets them in jail? And Rex is telling him to be thankful? Isn't dying once better than getting tortured daily in jail?
Of course, Maverick knows and that's the exact reason he is sending Smith to prison. One was to experience how life in prison is for making Jeslyn, his wife, stay there, and the second is to punish him for disobeying him and putting others before himself.
Meeting those bad and good guys he sent to prison with his wicked mouth would be the best punishment for him.
Smith is one of the second-class criminal lawyers in Country M and has a lot of bad records that no one could find because he was under Maverick's protection, but now, he was doomed to condemnation.
"Brother, inspector Fin is glad and will be here with his men in a while."
Inspector Fin has been on lawyer Smith's case for a long time and he kept hitting a dead end, so getting such good news was certainly going to make him overjoyed.
"I don't want to see him, send him the record," Maverick said and stood up to head towards the stairs.
Rex sighed. "When are you two going to make up?... Ah, Smith, your end makes me laugh. But before your end comes, tell me the spicy news you have heard so far. What's going on with the…."
Maverick shook his head when he heard his brother forcing a dying man to tell him the latest gossip.
He dialed a number on his phone and waited for the person to answer before he said, "I have a case for you."
…
At the prison, Jeslyn was sitting with her friends when a wardeness called her.
"Prisoner Lee…69, you have a visitor."
Jeslyn was surprised. It's been a week already and nobody had come to pay her a visit, so who just remembered her?
"Little bunny, I hope that isn't your shitty family?" Yellow asked with a yawn.
"I doubt that." She got up from the grass she was sitting on in an open field where they were brought out to have fun and headed towards the wardeness.
Getting to the visitor's room, Jeslyn paused in her step when she saw the people waiting for her.
She turned around to leave, but the wardeness pushed her back in and locked the door from the outside.
Jeslyn chuckled. That's right. The Lee family, Zhou family, and Chen family are three rich families that have the power to bend the law in Rose City.
The Lee family is the richest in Rose City and the Chen is the fourth richest with the Zhou family being the seventh, of course, they can make the prison officers turn their eyes and outrightly destroy the rules governing visitation to inmates.
"Where are you going, sister?"
Jeslyn took a deep breath to calm down. This is her first confrontation with her family over the events that had happened. She isn't sure if she could remain firm but she has to do it. Nobody is on her side, so she should no longer care about who is hurting because of her.
She turned around and walked to sit on the empty chair in the dimmed room.
"Christine finally had the time to come see me today, I'm so honored." She said with sarcasm.
"You should be honored, sister. After what you have done, you should be honored that the family came to see you," Christine replied.
"When you mean family, you mean…?" Jeslyn slowly glanced over at the husband and wife sitting beside Christine and shook her head.
"Insolence!" Yelled the woman.
"I'd appreciate it if you don't yell my ears off. It's already difficult living in prison. Making me deaf would make it worse than it already is and I don't welcome that."
"Jeslyn! You are becoming more impertinent and I'm glad you are here. You can learn manners the hard way since your slutty mother forgot to teach you well–"
"Bang!"
"I dare you to say that again!" She slapped the table hard and stood up while giving Mr. Wales a death glare.
"It's not like it's not true though. Your mother was a promisc–"
Jeslyn cut the woman off and attacked her before she could say another bad word about her sweet mother.
"Only a ho* like you would know who a slut is. You should be hiding your ugly face behind coal rubbed on your face. Getting into a happy family with your flat butts and loose twat should make you a supreme b!tch–"
"Paah!"
The slap forced her face to turn. She touched the inside of her right cheek with her tongue. That heavy slap from her father was a tough one.
Her eyes stung with tears, but she had made a vow in court to never let these low-life people see her tears ever again.
So she stood brave and smiled at the man with blood trickling down the corner of her lower lips.
"Your slaps cannot silence me, nor will they silence the people. Everyone knows that your sweetheart is a wh*re!"
She said it! Jeslyn said it again in full this time.
Mr. Wales raised his hand to slap her again but he heard Christine say.
"Father, let it be. You and mother should excuse us for a while, I need to talk to sister."
Jeslyn rolled her eyes. Why did she not know that this hypocrite would make up with their father and his mistress?
Of course, she needs a mountain to rely on since none of the properties were given to her.
Jeslyn suddenly felt joy bubbling in her heart. Her mother and grandfather were good Judges of character. It was only a shame she didn't learn that from them.
Mr. Wales glared at Jeslyn before he pulled his angry wife and left.
Now, with Jeslyn and Christine alone in the room, Christine stared at Jeslyn for a long time before she sighed.
"Sister, how did you suddenly become so brave and could even say such vulgar words without batting an eyelid? You used to shy away from using such explicit words. Has a week in prison turned you ugly?"
"Thanks to you, dear sister, using explicit words has become a norm. But I tell you, that's not the only thing you should be worried about. Pray, I don't get out of here, or else, I will make every one of you pay for ruining my life.
You might have been convinced or confused but you are old and sensible enough to know that testifying against your only sister would ruin her forever."
"You are right, sister. Because I'm worried about you getting out of here somehow, that's why I made them freeze your account, and also, how wouldn't I know that testifying against you in court would ruin you? I'm 23, sister, so of course, I know that, but then, who again did you say told you that you were my only sister? Is your selective amnesia clouding that fact too?"
Jeslyn stared at her sister in disbelief. Yes, they have an older sister, born from their father and his mistress before he married Ms. Alice, but what shocked Jeslyn was that Christine had a hand in freezing her account!
Seeing how shocked Jeslyn looked, Christine laughed. "That's not the only thing that should make you shocked, dear Jeslyn. That's just the tip of the iceberg."
Christine stood up and started to slowly walk around the room while telling a story.
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