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Shen Lie didn't look at Wayne, who had nothing to say, and signaled the judge to finish his questioning, and returned to his seat.

Lyon's complexion was not very good, probably because of his anger: "Your Excellency, the defense requests to call the next witness, the defendant Vincent Osterley."

Judge Donovan nodded.

Vincent walked from the dock to the witness stand, smiled generously at the jury, and sat on the seat of the witness stand.

Leon stood up and began to ask questions: "Mr. Osterley, what is your relationship with Klein Reid?"

Vincent said frankly: "The former boss-subordinate relationship."

"What about other than that?"

Vincent smiled: "Maybe a friend with benefits who had a one-night stand?"

"One-night stand?" Leon suddenly realized, "Are you referring to the night of October 10 a year ago, the so-called rape by Klein Reid?"

"Yes," Vincent said helplessly, "I don't understand why Klein lied to the police and why he chose to sue me. It was obviously a very pleasant night."

"I don't understand either, but Mr. Osterley," Leon asked again, "did you promote Klein from the second-in-command of the legal team to the first-in-command on the second day, that is, October 10?"

"Yes," Vincent nodded, "this is part of the agreement."

Lyon knowingly asked: "Agreement? What agreement?"

Vincent shrugged. "We had sex, and I gave him a promotion. It was a total adult-to-you deal—I even gave him money!"

Shen Lie frowned, his already thin lips were pursed into a colder arc, he looked back at the police officers sitting in the jury, Auston's expression was unpredictable, Casey and Dino were also shocked, obviously both First time hearing about money.

"Money?" Leon asked, "What money?"

Vincent explained: "Before I left the next day, even though it was a consensual sex transaction, I still couldn't bear to see him like that, so I left him some banknotes in my wallet and put them in his wallet. on my bedside table. About $[-]."

Leon laughed, and turned to the jury: "You promoted him again, and you left him money, how can this be called rape?"

After speaking, he walked back to his seat and said to Shen Lie, "The witness is yours."

Shen Lie licked his lips, looked at his watch, stood up and applied to Judge Donovan: "Your Excellency, apply for a temporary adjournment."

Judge Donovan also looked at his watch and tapped the gavel: "I agree, the next court session will be at two o'clock in the afternoon."

Shen Lie's office

"What money?" Shen Lie's face was ashen, he threw the folder heavily on the desk, and asked Klein in a cold tone.

Klein is not the only one in this room. Auston, Casey, Dino, Ning Yuan, Gloria, Jerry, and Ning Zhou are all here.

Klein was not in the court just now, and was confused by the question: "What money?"

Shen Lie and him looked at each other, defeated by the blankness in those lavender eyes, and couldn't express his temper at all. He was also in a moment of anxiety just now, for fear that something might go wrong that would affect the credibility of Klein's testimony and cause Vincent And could not be arrested and brought to justice.

Upon seeing this, Dino explained: "When Vincent Osterley testified in court, he said that the day after he raped you-of course he was talking about having sex as you like-he not only I gave you a promotion and left $[-] on your bedside table."

Klein was silent for a while before saying, "That's true."

Shen Lie had already calmed down, bent his fingers, and tapped the table with his knuckles: "What's going on?"

[-] p.m., Third Court

Shen Lie's thin figure was wrapped in a high-end custom-made suit, which looked tall and handsome, but at this time, everyone in the court was not focusing on his figure, but on his speech.

Shen Lie walked up to Klein and asked, "What is your relationship with the defendant Vincent Osterley?"

Klein: "Former employer-employee and former attorney-client relationship."

Shen Lie pointed his palm upwards to where Leon and Vincent were: "In Mr. Osterley's testimony in the morning, he mentioned that in addition to the relationship you just mentioned, you are still a so-called 'friends with benefits' relationship, It's just a one-night stand, isn't it?"

"No." Klein replied firmly, "First, I never have any relationship with my work partners beyond work; second, regarding what happened in my house that night, Vincent Oster What Li did to me, it wasn't love-making sex, it wasn't a so-called "one-night stand", that was rape."

"During the process of his rape," Shen Lie asked again, "did you clearly put forward a 'no' opinion?"

"Countless times," Klein said the same words as before the grand jury, "I said 'no', I scolded him and beat him, but he just refused to stop."

Shen Lie took out a large evidence bag, which contained Klein's bed sheets that night, dripping with blood, shocking.

"Prosecution Evidence A." Shen Lie showed each jury the evidence bag, "Mr. Rhett, is this the sheet on your bed when Mr. Osterley raped you that night?"

"Yes." Klein glanced at the bed sheet and looked away, as if he didn't want to take another look.

Shen Lie explained: "On this bed sheet, the forensics team found a large amount of Klein's blood, Vincent Osterley's DNA and semen."

After finishing speaking, Shen Lie put the bed sheet back on the table, and asked: "You are also a man, and the defendant is also a man, and he is not much stronger than you in terms of size, why are you at a disadvantage?"

Klein unconsciously twitched the corners of his lips: "In the beginning, he knocked on the door of my house with a bottle of red wine. After drinking for a while, my consciousness lost consciousness and I lost all strength."

"Prosecution Evidence B," Shen Lie picked up another evidence bag, which contained two goblets: "Is this the goblet you drank that day?"

"Yes."

Shen Lie explained to the jury again: "The forensic team found GHB residues in both goblets."

Shen Lie put the goblet back, turned around and leaned against the table, and took the initiative to ask the question about the three thousand dollars: "During the confession in the morning, the defendant said that the relationship between you was not rape and rape, but an act of power over each other. Deal. Is that so?"

"No!" Klein assertedly vetoed, his fair face flushed a little with anger, "I don't need to make any deals with him!"

"Then how do you explain that you were promoted the next day?" Shen Lie asked very directly and poignantly, because he knew that once he didn't make up his mind, Leon would be much more ruthless than him.

Klein smiled wryly: "I didn't go to work at all the next day. I looked like that... It's pretty good that I'm still alive. After knowing that I was promoted three days later, the personnel department changed me to a new office and told me I was not happy at all about the raise. And within a week, I resigned. I knew it was a dirty cover-up by Vincent Osterley. He knew he was doing something wrong, otherwise he would There's no need to make such a big move," his light purple eyes stared straight at Vincent without any flinching or fear, "right?"

Leon immediately said: "No!"

Klein smiled sarcastically: "I withdraw."

Judge Donovan said slowly: "The objection is valid. Mr. Rhett, you are now a witness, not a lawyer."

"Sorry, Your Excellency." Klein said softly.

It turns out that I have become a witness this time, and I have really become a victim.

How could it really come to this point.

He glanced over the jury with dazed and somewhat bewildered eyes, over Shen Lie, over Lyon, and finally settled on Oston in the jury.

He saw Alston's pursed lips, the blue veins on his forehead that almost broke through the thin skin, and his eyes that were still blue and gentle like the ocean looking at him.

Finally, Klein saw Oston's mouth shape, and he said:

"You are my lover, I love you."