A Wave Of Desire

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Reef

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"Theo, please call your next witness so that we may proceed." Judge Saltwater almost sighed the words when he spoke. I could tell that he was getting frustrated with everything, most likely the defense attorney and her client. Still, he needed to remain calm and let the justice system work. I was confident that it would all work out, this time at least.

"Yes, Judge, thank you." Theo rose from his seat and looked back toward where I was sitting. "My next witness is Analise Rivers. Please, Analise, come to the stand." At that, my wife rose to her feet and walked calmly and confidently to the witness stand. And I must say that she looked immensely beautiful as she walked up there. Especially that ass of hers. Damn!

OK, I'm a perv, but I am her husband and mate. I was allowed to think these types of things about her. And there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. I know she would agree too. And she probably thought something similar when I went up there.

The bailiff swore in Analise and then the questions were started almost immediately.

"Hello Analise, thank you for coming today. I am going to ask you the exact same questions that I asked your husband. Please answer them as honestly as you can."

"My answers will be exactly the same as his. I also have perfect recall, since I have the same friend that Reef does. But if you must, ask the questions and I will give you my answers."

"Very well, Analise. First, I would like for you to tell me what you saw in the hospital a week ago. What happened when the girl went to visit your future son in-law?"

True to her word, Analise quoted the song that we heard Brittney singing to Ocean, and she didn't wait for Theo to ask what happened after that either. She had basically gone into a monologue and was telling him everything that had happened from the first day at the hospital and everything else that I had said to him.

Well now, that truly was the same exact story that your husband said. I guess I have no other questions for you, Analise." Theo smiled at her then went to sit down at his table. "Your witness." He nodded just before he settled himself into the seat, letting Lisette know she could cross examine the witness.

"Thank you." Lisette rose to her feet angrily. She stomped across the room to stand in front of my wife with an angry look in her eyes.

"Mrs. Rivers, my first question for you is why are you lying? Why are you pretending like my client did anything wrong? What had she done to you personally? Why do you have such a grudge against her?" Did Lisette seriously think Brittney was innocent? After what she said to her earlier?

"Well, for starters, Ma'am, that is four questions, not one. However, I will answer them all to the best of my ability. First off, I am not lying. I am merely relaying the events as I personally saw them happen. This is what was said and done that day. I am not pretending that Brittney did anything wrong, I know for a concrete fact that she did something wrong and I am making sure that the entire world knows it. She has done nothing to me personally, but she tried to have my future son in-law killed and then to have him and my son kill themselves. I don't have a grudge against her, but I think that she is an evil person that needs to pay for what she has done. Brittney is a menace to society that needs to be stopped." Ooh, looking over at Brittney, I could see the girl was angry. She was turning red in the face, but it seemed like it was from her poorly suppressed rage instead of embarrassment. She was pissed off at my wife.

Huh. I wonder if she had looked like that when I was on the stand. I admit, I never actually looked at her when I was up there. I am guessing that she probably did look similar to that. She doesn't like any of us after all. Oh, let's wait and see what she does when Abraham takes the stand.

She truly hated Abraham, nearly as much as she hated Ocean and Makai. I mean, he did hold a scalpel to her neck and threaten to kill her. She had every reason to hate him. And he, of course, hated her. So, it was mutual.

"Do you take pleasure in ruining an innocent young girl's life, Mrs. Rivers? Do you enjoy seeing a young girl like her suffer and struggle?" Lisette continued her questioning, and it was enough to piss me off quite a bit.

"Well, Ms. Lisette, if she truly were innocent I would not like seeing her in this position at all. I would try my hardest to help her and to have justice prevail. To be honest, all I am trying to do here is let justice prevail. The innocent parties here were my future son in-law, Ocean, and the human boy named Justin. Brittney had forced Justin to hurt Ocean, and then tried to get him to kill himself. She also tried to get Makai, my son, to kill himself. I do not think that those are the actions of an innocent person. She may not have physically harmed anyone, but using her magic to harm people is just as bad. No, actually, it's worse. She harmed more than one person with her magic, and in doing so, nearly destroyed three lives."

"Three lives? Explain that to me." Lisette crossed her arms, clearly angry at my wife.

"Let's see, she bespelled Justin and nearly got him thrown in prison for her arrogance and stupidity. She nearly killed Ocean. And, not only did she try to cause two people to commit suicide, if Ocean would have died it would have ruined Makai. He loves his mate with every fiber of his being. So, yes Lisette, three lives. And that is not counting me and my husband, as well as Ocean's family. All of us would have been devastated at the loss of Ocean, even if Makai had lived. So, I would say she nearly destroyed ten lives. But, you know, that is just my opinion." Analise smirked at the lawyer then. It was enough to make the other woman's face turn bright red and smoke come out of her ears. OK, there was no actual smoke, but it looked like it could happen at any second.

"I am through with this witness. She is constantly lying as well. I hope that the jury can see them for what they truly are. They're liars that want to hurt an innocent young girl."

Lisette left the stand then and marched back to her seat. I couldn't help but notice the look in her eyes when she was looking around the courtroom. Was that a glazed look? What was wrong with her? What the hell was happening here?

"Abraham, did you see that? Did you see Lisette's eyes?" I turned and leaned toward him and whispered so that only he could hear me. It helped that the clicking of Analise's heels was drowning out the sound of my voice for the rest of the room as well.

"Yeah, I did." His voice was angry and a little louder than mine. He was definitely pissed off. Damn, someone was going to get it soon.

"Do you think this means the same thing that I think it means?"

"Hmmrr." He growled through his closed mouth at my question. "That was the type of question a child would ask, Reef. You can do better than that next time. But to answer you, yes. I am almost one hundred percent positive and absolutely sure that she has been bespelled."

"Ha! Ha! You answered that like a child at the end. Did you do that to spite me?" I was still whispering but my voice was a little louder than it had been.

At that moment, Analise sat between us, forcing us apart.

"I don't like the look of that lawyer's eyes." She was looking from one to the other of us as I leaned across her body now to look at both her and Abraham.

"Yeah, we were just discussing that." I informed her. "And we've come to the conclusion that she has to have been bespelled. There is no other explanation for why she looked like that."

"Damn, that fucking bitch." Analise's voice was sharp, but it was also quiet enough that no one but the two of us next to her heard it. "She fucking sang to her lawyer. What did she think that was going to accomplish? That little bitch."

"She's going to be caught soon enough. You will see." There was an almost frightening level of confidence coming from Abraham at that moment. "Just you wait. I will prove to them all just what that little girl is capable of. I will show this entire room. And when they see it all, that little nut job is going to show her true colors."

"You're scary right now, Abe. Cool as all fucking hell, but definitely fucking scary too." I smirked at him. He was definitely someone that I was happy was on my side and not an enemy. This ruthless sea dragon would never stop until he made someone pay for something that ruined lives. And this time, he was personally invested since he had taken a liking to the boys. He was quickly becoming their Uncle Abraham.. At least, I think that's what was happening.