When she emerged from the Coffee Pantry, Helen Melendy ran into Adam Jones who had come looking for Harry Hall. She spat at him forcefully and strode away.
"All these years have gone by and that temper of yours still hasn’t changed."
Harry Hall sighed helplessly and pinched the bridge of his nose.
Adam Jones was uninterested in the issues between Harry Hall and Helen Melendy. With a cold face, he stepped forward and asked directly, "Can we win this lawsuit?"
Harry Hall gave him a brief glance and said, "Don’t you already know whether we can win or not?"
Adam Jones paused and remained silent.
Harry Hall sighed and said earnestly, "Are you really not afraid Elly Campbell will hate you for the rest of her life by going to such lengths to fight for custody?"
Adam’s expression shifted slightly. At that moment, he wasn’t even sure if he was fighting for custody over Elly Campbell because of that incident back then or if he was just using it as an excuse to take the child away so that he wouldn’t be completely cut off from Elly Campbell.
But the pain of that incident, when Elly Campbell had confessed to him personally, the torment that his heart had suffered, was still vividly felt to this moment.
After a moment, he gave a bitter laugh, "Better to be hated than to never have cared at all."
Compared to a man who is heartless, a man without a heart is even worse...
He thought of what Elly Campbell had muttered in his arms that day, and now it seemed appropriate to apply that phrase to her.
She must be a woman who had become so heartless that she no longer had a heart at all.
His eyes dropped, concealing the bitterness and raw redness within them.
Harry Hall didn’t understand the entanglement between Adam and Elly Campbell, just as others didn’t understand his situation with Helen Melendy. He looked at Adam, only sighed, and without further persuasion, he simply said, "As long as you don’t regret it."
During the second half of the court session, as Helen Melendy had predicted, Harry Hall began pressing relentlessly, leaving Helen utterly defenseless.
Sitting in the audience, Elly Campbell’s face grew paler and paler. Despite her mental preparation, the thought of her son, who had been her whole world, leaving her made her feel as if her heart was being torn out by its roots.
In the end, as Elly Campbell had anticipated, the Judge granted Adam Jones the custody of William Campbell.
In the audience, Elly Campbell slumped in her seat, motionless for a long while. Her energy seemed to be drained, her spirit lost.
Adam Jones didn’t feel much happiness or even relief about this expected verdict. It seemed as if he had been sitting there, simply waiting for this judgment to be pronounced from the beginning.
Rising from his seat, his gaze swept indifferently towards where Elly Campbell was sitting, pale and staring blankly in her chair. His brow furrowed, and after his gaze lingered on her face for two seconds, he withdrew it coldly.
Suppressing the throbbing pain in his heart, he walked out of the courtroom.
Robert Green followed him out, but after taking a couple of steps, he saw Adam Jones suddenly halt. Robert Green couldn’t stop in time and bumped into him.
"Pres... President..."
Bumping into Adam’s dark, deep eyes, Robert Green instinctively shivered.
Adam Jones didn’t say anything, his deep gaze fixed motionlessly on the courtroom’s entrance; Robert Green didn’t dare make another sound and simply stood by, waiting.
At that moment, Elly Campbell came out from inside the courtroom, looking so pale she was horrifying to behold. It was as though she had been stripped of a layer of her pride in an instant, leaving her looking incredibly weak and fragile.
Just like a piece of paper, as if about to be scattered by the wind at any moment.