“Objection!” shouted an attorney from the defense side. “Repetitious.”
“Overruled,” the judge said calmly. “Control yourself, Mr. Kincaid. You know the rules about interrupting a closing statement.”
“Thank you, your honor,” Rachel said with a polite nod. Alex bit his lip to keep from laughing. God, she was playing the entire room like an instrument.
“As I was saying before I was interrupted,” she continued calmly, “here is the quote from the e-mail to engineering. 'We would be financially negligent if we poured resources into a project from which we will receive no income. This will have an adverse effect on our quarterly and yearly profitability. We advise against this proposal.'” Her fist clenched as she crumpled the piece of paper into a lopsided wad and dropped it contemptuously to
