On the Ropes (Christian Romantic Suspense) by Hallee Bridgeman

Author:Hallee Bridgeman
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2020-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Ruth took the witness stand and stared at Antoly Kovalev. He sat at the table in the front of the courtroom next to two of his attorneys. Behind their table sat an entire team of lawyers and legal aids. While she stared at him, he raised his fingers and pantomimed shooting a gun at her. Her heart skipped a beat, but she refused to give him any reaction other than raising one eyebrow and looking back to the lawyer who currently cross-examined her.

“So, you’re saying, Miss Burnette—”

“Doctor,” Ruth corrected.

The man with the Ken-doll haircut and gleaming teeth paused. “I beg your pardon?”

“I’m not a Miss. I’m a doctor. You can refer to me as Doctor Burnette, or you can find another lawyer to question me.”

A murmur ran through the courtroom. Ruth felt like she’d gained a tiny bit of the upper hand in this battle of wills she’d fought for the last twenty minutes with this attorney. The man turned to the judge. “Your Honor—”

He glared at the lawyer over his half-moon glasses. “Yes, Mr. Mitchell?”

“Can you please compel the witness?”

The unsympathetic judge smiled, and in a sugar sweet voice said, “What shall I compel her to do, Mr. Mitchell? Her request is simple and understandable. Please address her correctly or find someone on your vast legal team who knows how to pronounce the word ‘Doctor’.”

A bit of color flooded the top of his cheeks, but he didn’t reply. Instead, he turned back to Ruth. “So what you’re saying, Doctor Burnette, is that you didn’t actually see the defendant, Mr. Antoly Kovalev, here, with a gun in his hand?”

Images flashed in front of her eyes of Antoly Kovalev, smirking at the man on his knees, begging for his life. “I did not.”

“So, in fact, you didn’t witness him killing anyone?”

She almost visibly jumped when she re-heard the gunshot in her mind. “I did not.”

“Isn’t it true that Mr. Kovalev could have been there under duress as well?”

The prosecutor didn’t stand. He simply said, in an almost bored voice, “Objection. Calls for speculation.”

The judge answered, “Sustained. Mr. Mitchell, I’m getting tired of reminding you that you are not writing a fictional novel here. Quit setting up for your closing arguments and stick with just the facts.”

Ruth had already testified to hearing one of the men begging Antoly Kovalev for his life. At this point, the attorneys just tried to get the jury to forget her testimony by dragging the cross-examination out for long minutes and making her admit to what she did not see over and over again. She had prepared for this, and did not rise to any bait, nor did she get defensive. She knew that any kind of hesitation or defensive posturing would possibly make the jury doubt the testimony she’d already given. In a monotone, she simply answered every question with absolute honesty, correcting them every time they dropped the Doctor from her name.

“Let’s talk about your relationship with Victor Kovalev,” the attorney said, his back to her, his eyes searching the jury box.

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