Summer Rental-Ch 24

As Derek heard lie after lie from Savannah he reached over and intertwined fingers with Penelope and said, "I love you", she winked at him and whispered, "I love you to handsome". After Shannon sat down the prosecutor said, "are you expecting us to believe that you are the victim here"? she said, "Derek loves me I know he does and we could be happy together".

Todd laughed and said, "if you believed that you could be happy together why did you drug him"?, she said, "wh well I didn't", he held up the blood results and said, "oh but you did, according to the results he was very heavily drugged, so drugged that he had no earthly idea what he was doing". She said, "that isn't true, he was sooooooo into what we were doing".

Todd said, "if that's true then why did he get up and leave you on the beach"?, she said, "he had an emergency of some sort with his daughter", he nodded his head and said, "and you say that you were assaulted when you went to the hospital when you were the one that started everything isn't that right"?, she then pointed at Penelope and said, "she had no right keeping me away from my man, no right what so ever".

A few minutes later Todd said, "I have no further questions for this witness at this time", the judge said, "you may step down", she stood up and smiled at Derek as she walked back to her table and sat down beside Shannon. The judge said, "you may call your next witness"?, she said, "we call Derek Morgan to the stand your honor".

Derek stood up and walked toward the box, he stood in front of it and the baitliff said, "raise your right hand", he put his left hand on the bible and the baitliff said, "do you promise that the tesitmony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God"?, he smiled and said, "I do", the judge said, "you may be seated".

Todd walked over to Derek and said, "I guess to say that the past few weeks has been hard for you is a good guess"?, Derek nodded his head and said, "yes a very good guess". He said, "before we get started with your testimony I understand that congratulations are in order"?, he grinned and said, "yes it is", he said, "congratulations on your wedding".

Savannah jumped up and said, "he isn't married", the judge banged her gavel on her bench and said, "be seated, sit down", Savannah tried to run over to Derek and said, "please say that it isn't true, please say that you didn't marry that cow, not after everything I did to keep us together". The judge listened to Savannahs breakdown for several minutes before she said, "baitliff please remove her from the court room".

Shannon said, "mam I am so sorry for her outburst, I tried right before court to let me get her admitted to a long term care facility but she refused", the judge said, "I am going to order that she be placed in an institution that can handle her mental problems, it is obvious that she is definitely abnormal after everything she did".

Shannon nodded her head and said, "yes mam", the judge said, "I am so sorry for everything that that you and your new wife had to go through", Derek smiled up at her and said, "thank you mam". She banged her gavel and said, "Savannah will spend the rest of her life in a long term maximum security facility", she then said, "I wish you and your family a wonderful life together Mr. Morgan".

Derek smiled as he stood up and said, "thank you your honor", the baitliff said, "all rise" and everybody watched as the judge stepped down and headed back to her chambers. Derek walked up to his wife and kissed her lips passionately and said, "it's over beautiful, it's finally over", he slid his hand down to her growing bump and said, "come on little one let's go get your momma something to eat".

As they walked out of the courtroom he intertwined their fingers and said, "I love you Mrs. Morgan", she laughed and said, "and I love you Mr. Morgan, always have and always will". As they headed toward their cars he knew that he would spend the rest of his life loving Penelope his baby girl and he couldn't wait to show her everyday just how much he loved her.

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