Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband-Chapter 333: The hearing....2

In the blink of an eye, some unexpected guests joined the hearing, ghosts! There were eight of them by Phoebe’s count and they were very noisy, excited it seemed.

"A hearing, how wonderful, we have not had one of these in five years Charlotte."

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"The last one ended in a brawl I believe."

"Is that general Drusus?"

"It’s him alright, and he came with popcorn. My good man, I do believe that he is breaking the rules that govern this scared court. I shall tell president Rex about this."

Phoebe put her head in her hands and sighed as that ghost persistently called Rex’s name even though the human did not respond.

One of the ghosts, a woman dressed like she was alive in the 1600’s appeared before Phoebe.

"You are going to lose; everybody loses these hearings, and you have the face of a loser."

"Oh great, you are not just dead, but you can predict the future as well." Phoebe mumbled.

The ghosts shrieked and floated away, "Did you just speak to me? Everyone, she just spoke to me, she can see us."

Like babies that had just seen as shiny new toy the ghosts all flocked towards Phoebe, squeezing around her, each talking over the other in excitement.

"Don’t talk to me, don’t bother me or else prepare to move on with or without the intent." Phoebe threatened them.

The fact that she was speaking to the air of course drew attention and a whole lot of murmurs around, it was already known that she could see ghosts. Suddenly everyone started to wonder what she was seeing or who and it made more than a few people uncomfortable.

"Stand for the anthem." a clerk announced.

Surprisingly, the ghosts quietened down and floated to the floor, standing as if they were alive and part of the proceedings.

After the anthem was sang and everyone settled down, maintaining silence with the exception of a newly arrived ghost that sat down beside Rex.

"Awesome, Pete the commentator is here." One of the ghosts said sarcastically.

Dorothy Cook raised her hand for she had an issue that she wasn’t comfortable with. As the complainant, the council had to hear her out before proceeding with the hearing.

Rex Chapman raised his brows, of late there had been rumors that he favored Dorothy. His wife had gone an extra mile to insinuate that she suspected that their relationship was more than friendly. He did not want to associate with her but there was no choice at the moment, so he pointed at her and gave her permission to speak.

"My Lord, on the list of council members to preside over this hearing, Mr. Rufus Saxon wasn’t included, I was told that Robert Saxon would be on the council so it’s only fair that Robert takes a council seat and not Mr. Rufus." She spoke with a lot of confidence without any atom of fear.

Her words caused a ruckus in the hearing hall with most people shocked that Dorothy was not well versed by the rules that governed the founding council.

Before Rex could respond to her, Rufus gestured at him not to bother as he planned to personally counter Dorothy’s argument.

"I have been away for a while and a lack of common sense seems to have befallen this council." Rufus responded, eliciting a number of chuckles from the spectators.

Rufus continued, "Young woman I am ashamed and embarrassed on behalf of my ancestors that you are working for this founding council, yet you have little knowledge of how things work.

And on that note let me educate you, a council judge can choose a replacement when he or she is indisposed. It was I that chose Robert to stand in for me while I was sick and bedridden, and now that I am healthy and hearty, I have decided to take back my role as a judge."

Rex nodded in agreement. "That is right, can we move on to the agenda...."

His eyes raised again only to see Dorothy’s hand up again. Dickson had informed her earlier that old man Saxon was going to be among the council judges and that it would be a disadvantage to her. She was determined to get him kicked off at least for today.

"Yes, Dorothy." Rex sighed, frustrated. Dorothy was testing his patience. Even the blind could see that old man Rufus had every right to be on the council.

"Mr. Chapman, I know for a fact that Mr. Saxon’s opinion on this matter is already biased. Just like Mr. Mayfair was told not to preside over this case because of family ties to the defendant, so should Mr. Saxon. He and Phoebe Mayfair have a very close relationship and here is the evidence."

Dorothy handed in a flash drive which Rex accepted, it was connected and on the large screen on the wall, pictures of the elder Saxon couple, David and Phoebe having dinner at Papa Jang’s restaurant were shown to all.

Unknown to Dorothy was that she had shot herself in the foot, a good number of her supporters switched sides in fear of going against the Saxons. If Phoebe had won the favor of Rufus Saxon, then they wouldn’t be stupid to be on her bad side.

"This seems like that prick Dickson’s work." Connie clenched her fists.

"Yes, I am certain, it’s too well planned with pictures too." The spirit narrowed its eyes at Dickson.

Sylvester let out a short sigh. "It’s probably because Phoebe rejected his help, so he wants to make her regret it."

Grandpa Saxon laughed haughtily, David had told him everything about Dorothy and this was his chance to end her.

"I will step down for this case but before we go any further, we must handle the first agenda on the council’s itinerary, a small change which was made a few minutes ago.

As a judge, I have the right to decide on what should be heard in our founding court at my discretion. I would like to bring up a few recent discoveries about the malpractices of Mrs. Cook as the council appointed head of the homeowner’s association. Like I said, a lack of common sense seems to have befallen the council in my time away because you should not be where you are."

A smack on the table attracted everyone’s attention towards Dorothy’s direction. "That is slander! And that is not the reason as to why we are here, we came to handle Phoebe Mayfair’s misuse of founding land, President Chapman say something." She chewed on her bottom lip hopping that he would come to her rescue.

Rex Chapman was stuck between a rock and a hard place, Dorothy was his loyal minion but on the other hand, old man Saxon had the power and influence to get him ousted from his position as President. It was safer to side with him, he could always get another minion.

"Go ahead Mr. Saxon." Rex wiped his mouth and stared at Dorothy who sank into her seat, she knew that it was over for her and so did the people that were seated close to her for they shifted from their seats like Dorothy had bedbugs.