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"I won't After this weekend I don't want to ruin it"

When we arrived, the steps to the courthouse were croith reporters and fillimpse of witnesses I was certain to be top of their lists

"Let me lead the way I'll fend off any reporters," Lara said as she got out I followed her out of the car and adjusted my coat while the John closed the door Then, he stood beside uard whose naave me a momentary sense of unreality that uards, the paparazzi approaching with their

"Do you have anything to say, Dr Morgan? Do you deny that the video is of you hitting the woman you're with?"

Lara grabbed my arm and pulled me forward

"Dr Morgan will issue a brief state his testi to say Thank you," she said, her voice fir the reporters the evil eye

Together, her arh h security

"You're daood at this," I said while we checked our personal iteh the scanner

"That's why you pay h

I did pay Lara big bucks to be my lawyer and previously, to be my match support ofthat I truly appreciated She had my back We'd been friends for years and I knew I could rely on her advice It was never wrong

We went inside and checked in with the clerk, ould alert the prosecutor that I was there and would be waiting forhallway outside the courtroom and waited for me to be called

While we spoke in quiet voices, a wolared atto place her, but I didn't recognize her She walked down the hallway to the washroom and I turned to Lara

"Do you knoho that is? She gave me a really nasty look"

"No idea," Lara said with a shrug "Probably just some audience member who thinks you're the devil incarnate"

"Probably"