267: Chapter 267

Chapter 267

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Matt didn't know to what extent Kate tricked him. The more he was thinking about it, the more terrified he got.

'Fuck, what if everything is planned since the very start?' Matt asked himself as he began to doubt himself right now. 'What if she is the one who intentionally puts the newspaper clip in Hilda's room? Maybe she already knows that my Mom would break into the house and search for valuable things.'

'Maybe she has been colluding with the cops from the get-go. Cops are always corrupt, after all. She could always bribe them to do her bidding,' Matt swallowed his saliva hardly. He was so scared that his mind began to cloud with fear. 'She tricked me into saying crazy stuff when I asked for money. She also tricked my mother until she got arrested by the cops. What else does she have in her arsenal?'

Matt's mind began to wander as he tried to count every possibility of Kate's tricks, and he began to recall the offer that Kate offered before the trial.

'With that kind of video evidence, she must be extremely confident to win the case and annul the prenup. So what's the point of her offering me up to six million before?' Matt wondered. Somehow, he had gotten an answer, but he was unsure if it was right.

'No way, there is no way that she offered me six million just to taunt me before the trial. She is not that petty, right?' 

Unfortunately, the more he thought about it, the more certain he felt that Kate was just being petty and cruel. 

It also scared him so much that his back began to sweat. He didn't expect that Kate could be that cruel and cunning. For the past five years of marriage and more than a decade of dating, Kate had never shown any sign of cruelty or deceit.

She was always that meek and silent girl nobody wanted to touch. Even when she got a job as the Chief Editor, Kate maintained her upright and honest nature. 

So this caught Matt off guard and terrified him, knowing that Kate was out to get his blood. 

'W—What if she has another plan in mind? What if she still wants to get revenge on me even after we get divorced?' Matt's mind began to make up a scary scenario, and the worst scenario he made was the idea of Kate going to kill him and his mother in an act of revenge and in the worst possible way.

Matt's body began to tremble out of fear of his own soon-to-be ex-wife. He glanced at Henry, who sat right behind Kate, and his heart almost jumped when he saw the deep emerald eyes were actually looking at him the whole time.

Henry grinned as their eyes met, he raised one brow to taunt Matt, and it seemed that Henry could read Matt's mind simply by looking at his facial expression. 

'Holy shit! Holy fucking shit! They are out to get me!' Matt panicked. 'No wonder Kate and Henry are so close together. They are the same monster! They are evil beings!'

Judge Cassidy took off her glasses and rubbed her nose bridge. The content of the video shown by Katherine Woods was damning evidence that her husband was indeed a manipulator and mental abuser.

How else could a man blackmail his wife with her father's crime he committed more than a decade ago? She was just a teenager then and had no control over her family.

"Thank you for the video evidence, Mrs. Woods. You may return to your seat," Judge Cassidy said.

Kate wiped her tears before the judge and nodded, "Thank you, Your Honor."

As Kate turned around, she glanced at Matt, who looked so pale, and she winked at him as if everything was just a game, and Matt had been cluelessly pulled into this game with no escape. 

Judge Cassidy shifted her gaze towards the nervous Matt and said, "Please come to the podium and give your statement, Mr. Matthew Woods, because it seems that you are not being represented by any lawyer."

Matt almost shrieked out of fear. He had lost all of his confidence the moment Kate smirked at him. It gave him the feeling that Kate had truly prepared everything up to his demise, and he could do nothing to avoid it.

"Matthew Woods? If you're not going to give your statement, I will finalize my verdict without hearing you," Judge Cassidy said. "That video is damning evidence that you have abused your wife mentally."

Matt understood that he would lose his ten million dollars if he didn't do anything. So he pushed through his courage and got up from his seat.

He walked to the podium and felt that was the longest walk he had ever done in his entire life. His gaze got blurry as fear and nervousness had taken his entire body. 

He stood in front of the judge and felt that the short, middle-aged lady looked like a monster in his eyes. His knees began to shake, but he hurriedly gripped the podium so he wouldn't faint. 

He knew that Kate had trapped him, but that didn't mean he would go down without a fight.

'Pull yourself together, Matt! Don't get scared, or you will lose ten million dollars! It's now or never!' Matt tried to encourage himself. 

"You may speak now, Matthew Woods," Judge Cassidy said. 

"W—Well, uh… t—that's fake, Ma'am—I—I mean, Your Honor," Matt stuttered as he tried to find a reason to debunk Kate's damning video evidence just now.

"Fake? Please elaborate."

"Uh… w—we are just… uhm… a—acting, Your Honor," Matt said. After he found his reason, he became less nervous, "I am an actor, and I asked my wife to help me practice because I will play an evil scumbag."

"An actor? Is that true, Mrs. Woods?" Judge Cassidy asked for confirmation from Kate. "You told me that he has no job just now."

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