Baffled, Mina watched as her adversary maintained an air of superiority even when she had a absolutely no reason to be. Her head rushed trying to make sense of why Ashley would want her client to be accused of wrong doing. Krepes had spied on Todd and Christian which was illegal in itself.

"Usually when I have a breakthrough," Mina thought. "Prosecutors are scared stiff. The only thing stiff about Ashley is her stature."

Mina thrusted an accusatory finger at Ashley. "Why are you so happy, Miss Snooty Pants? The prosection has been accused of spying on my client. And yet we're supposed to think he's the bad guy here?"

Ashley adjusted the lime-green bowtie on her emerald pants suit and smirked at the defense. "Rookie rookie rookie," the lion maned woman teased. "You haven't taken my pedigree into considerations. This isn't the minor leagues. This is the ivy league."

"What the huh?!" Mina demanded. "Why are we talking about colleg..."

Ashley twirled her nose in the air. "Because. I didn't go too some cheap McLawyer school like you. I went to Yarhard University. If you can't see where I'm going with this, then you're blinder than my ex fiance."

Mina swallowed hard and remained silent, unable to summon a quick retort. Ashley pointed a gloved finger to Monika Krepes who was relaxed and chewing on a piece of pink frosted cake.

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"Now please, Miss Krepes," Ashley said, her voice as sly as a feline ready to pounce. "Care to tell the judge, jury and cotten headed defense why you were recording Christian and Todd with that strategically placed webcam inside the DeFunkt helmet?"

Monika was quiet as she had the fork in her mouth. Slowly, she lowered it and dabbed at her mouth with a pink cloth. She opened her eyes and they were watery and anguished. "Because!" the paris drama queen exclaimed. "I was afraid zat Todd would kill my boyfriend!"

"And why would he do that?" Ashley asked.

Madame Krepes lip trembled and she extended her slice of cake to the heavens with one hand and the other to her heart. "Because zat robotic cur, Todd Le Matinee. He seduced little old moi in a treacherous affair."

There was a dramatic dun dun dun! that accompanied her statement and Mina realized it came from the audience. There was a string quartet sitting in tuxedos at the front of the audience, all of them wearing powdered wigs and painted white faces.

"Oh don't mind them," Monika said, putting a hand forward. "I am such a drama queen they accompany me every where i go!"

Todd stood up immediately. "Zis isn't true at all! I did not have an affair with this woman!"

"Order!" the judge shouted and slammed her gavel. "Miss Ryan has insisted there is damning evidence to go with the witnesses testimony."

"Yes..." Ashley said, rubbing her gloved fingers together. "There is, Justice. Please, Miss Krepes. I want you to go into gratuitous detail about your affair with Todd Le Matinee!"

Krepes giggled to herself and rolled her large dark eyes skyward. She did not blush at all, but rather stuck another piece of cake into her mouth. "Let us just say, he had his Krepes and ate her too!"

Mina braced herself. She had to prune the most scandalous testimony in her career! And find out what was truly a load of Krepe!