time . . . it had to be.
As Jason Dowler and the guests watched, the scene played out over and over. Jaime placing Deneyve in a painful match-ending hold, and Deneyve finding some way to break free. And each time Jaime looked increasingly confused and frustrated.
Deneyve realized the effect these scenarios were having on Jaime. She could feel her opponent's strength fade a little more with each improbable escape. And thus the instrument of the young attorney's demise was forged.
It was a dangerous ploy, but Deneyve felt certain the gambit would work. She began letting herself get trapped by Jaime. Then just when she sensed the |
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young attorney's confidence growing, she would slowly break free. Jaime's spirits crashed with each failure, but she couldn't give up. Her obsession with defeating her enemy kept her going.
And the young brunette got weaker and weaker as she expended all her strength without thinking. Had she not been so blinded by her rage she would have recognized what was happening. But instead, she was manipulated into expending every last bit of her strength.
As she lay exhausted on the carpet, the realization of what had happened finally came to Jaime. And as if that was not bad enough, Deneyve wasn't going to just let her opponent quit. She worked the weakened |
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lawyer over with punches and kicks and excruciating holds.
In the end, Deneyve made Jaime scream out her submission. After one last humiliating hold, Deneyve dropped the sobbing fighter to the carpet and allowed Jason Dowler to hold her hand high in victory. She soaked in the applause, then stepped over her beaten foe and returned to the bedroom to clean up.
Deneyve's victory was the tabloid's loss as Jaime quickly closed her practice and moved away from Seattle. Her crushing defeat left her with too many questions about her abilities, both physical and mental. Could she be an effective, confident litigator again? Only time will tell. |
