Chapter 164

Judge Peterson angrily left the courtroom because nobody was ready to be accountable. They didn't look like they wanted to do what he was about to say; he was going to go back to his chambers, take off his robe, come back inside the courtroom, and ring it into their heads that if they didn't want to settle it

here and now, if they decided to take it to court, he wasn't going to tamper mercy with Justice; he was going to try them as he usually tried cases like this; he wasn't going to let them off like he wanted to do to them now.

Judge Peterson knew that his secretary was going to be shocked to see him back in his chambers so early, but he wasn't back yet. He just wanted to give the parties time to reflect on what he told them; he couldn't believe that he could see that they wanted to forgive each other, but it was looking so hard for them because they didn't think they could be as they had been before, he knew that was inevitable, the