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All I could do was sit and silently seethe

"All contracts are amended at some point or another, and this is no different" Marshall uncapped his fountain pen "I hope that’s self-explanatory, so I can skip to the next topic"

"No, it isn’t self-explanatory" I snarled, "What you’re saying is all this talk of being set in stone and law-abiding is actually not--it’s revised to suit your benefits with no input from my family?"

My stoe the rules and tote it over our heads like gospel? How could they notarise so?

Who were these corrupt,lawyers?

Cut tutted under his breath "Don’t forceyou, Ms Weaver" His eyes blackened as if I’d offended hiswe do is within the para is carried out until it’s first written, signed, and witnessed"

"Even rape and ue"

Cut clasped his fingers "I’ll allow that one last question Perhaps, if you finally understand that all of this isyou’ve been indisposed and suffering an injustice"

Sitting taller in his chair, he buffed his fingernails on his cuff "Things outside the realreed to What do you think war is, Nila? It’s a contract between two countries that nature, they deliver countless resources and sign the death warrant of so many lives That’s murder And it’s all done with no co they had the full use of enlisted reed, money, and power"

I hated that he reed with my archene men off to war, only to die the moment they landed on enemy soil…then to send yetthe outcolobal scale, and those in power never paid for their crih towas done by the law, I do " He nodded at the stacks of paper "In there, you’ll find every deviation fronature and a Weaver’s"

My heart skipped painfully "You’re saying ned this?" I snorted "I don’t believe that Did you force them under duress?"

Marshall huffed "At no point wouldWe have iron-clad records that protect our client’s reputation We have proof to show there was no hardship signing the aet aith it for six hundred years

Plucking a piece of paper from the fourth pile, he handed it to me "See for yourself"

Part of me wanted to crumple it up and throw it in his face, but I restrained