Six months passed in the blink of an eye. One afternoon, an old colleague came by the restaurant for dinner. While we were chatting, he suddenly brought up Derek and Suki.
"Claire, did you hear? The verdict finally came down." I was plating a new dish and barely looked up.
"Suki took the fall," he continued. "Intentional injury. Two years in prison. I heard she cried through the entire trial, trying to dump the blame onto Derek, but the evidence was airtight. Nobody bought her act."
I nodded calmly. The outcome surprised me not at all. "What about Derek?"
My colleague let out a cold snort. "Since he was still the restaurant's legal representative, he got dragged into it too. He was charged as an accomplice. But his family spent a fortune protecting him. In the end, he got a suspended s
