Forbidden Verdict 🔞 18+ | Mature Content | Adults Only

💀 FORBIDDEN VERDICT - Dark, Twisted

🔞 18+ | Mature Content | Adults Only

By The Phoenix

Judge Sloane Marbury has always trusted the law. She has spent years convincing herself that justice is clean, fair, and absolute-that monsters only exist in case files, not in the arms of the man she loves.

Julian Hale teaches her otherwise.

He first enters her courtroom as a brilliant, razor-sharp prosecuting attorney with a smile that could split a woman's resolve in half. His arguments are flawless. His charm is disarming. His ambition burns like an open flame. Sloane sees danger in him, but she also sees something else-something she hasn't felt in years.

He sees weakness in her.
And he feeds on it.

Their affair detonates behind courtroom doors-stolen nights, whispered secrets, verdicts twisted with desire. Sloane thinks she's breaking the rules for love. She doesn't know she's falling into a trap built by a man who studies human weaknesses the way surgeons study anatomy.

Julian doesn't love her.
Julian obsesses.
Possesses.
Consumes.

He tells her he is divorced. He tells her his wife is gone. He tells her everything she wants to hear until she stops questioning anything at all. But far from the courthouse, Elise-his pregnant, exhausted wife-waits for a man she still believes is good.

She's wrong.

Julian has plans, and Elise is not part of them. Not the baby. Not the marriage. Not the life that ties him to failures he's determined to erase. He wants Sloane. He wants her influence, her power, her purity. And he wants her blind.

So he does what monsters do:
He eliminates the obstacle.

One night, after a deceptively tender moment with Elise-skin still warm, pulse still fluttering-there's a gunshot. A scream no one hears. A body on cold tile. A staged story he rehearses in the mirror until his voice never cracks.

But blood tells the truth.
Bruises tell the truth.
Time stamps tell the truth.