Guilty or Not Guilty

Mike after coming to his apartment got ready. He didn't bother to iron the shirt. He grabbed the first shirt he saw in his wardrobe. He skipped breakfast. He took his phone and left for the Forensic lab. As he reached the lab he saw Janice doing some tests.

"Hey." Mike greeted her

"Hey, I guess you didn't sleep much. The baggy eyes shows how sleep deprived are you." Janice said looking at Mike

"Yeah."

"I understand it's a big day for you where your innocence will be proved. Mary have worked really hard to make sure she can find the possible evidences and her hard work was fruitful. We were looking for fingerprints but got the cam footage. Isn't it wonderful."

Hearing this a tear dropped from Mike's eyes.

"Hey. What happened? Don't worry everything will be alright." Janice said assuring Mike

"Janice, I guess there is something you should know."

"What? You are scaring me now Mike."

"Mary met an accident yesterday night."

"What? Is she ok? Why I am getting to know about it now? Why you didn't tell me earlier? Where is she?"

Mike asked her to calm down and narrated the whole incident.

Janice sighed and quickly took out her handbag from the drawer.

"what are you doing?"

" Leaving for Cathedral hospital. "

"Janice. Please drive safe."

Janice nodded and left for the hospital. Mike left with her and went in opposite direction towards his office. In the next 30 mins, he was outside his office building. He sighed and entered the office building. As he reached the elevator he can see bunch of eyes looking at him. The news of him being suspended for sexual harassment has spread in office like a wildfire. He avoided everyone's gaze and reached the 8th floor . As he walked out of elevator he rushed towards the Conference room. He can still feel nasty glare from the people but he didn't care. He was confident that the ball is in his court now. As he reached the conference room he saw Alandra, Pam and a few board members already present. All were waiting for Lucas. Mike stood at one corner of room. Alandra looked at him and said " Mike you can take the seat at the front". Mike thanked and saw a reassuring smile on Alandra's face. It was hard to imagine the Witch being nice but everyone has a soft side hidden beneath them. Mike thought.

Within minutes Lucas entered the room and greeted everyone

" Hi All. Catherine has met with an accident so she won't be able to attend this meeting. But I guess we can start the meeting. As the case is crystal clear. Catherine has accused Michael of sexual harassment and he is guilty. Our company has zero-tolerance policy." Lucas announced making his decision

"Certainly. This kind of behavior is unacceptable." Pam added

" Maybe we can check if Mike has any evidence to prove his innocence." Alandra backed Mike

Now everyone in the room were looking in Mike's direction. He cleared his throat and spoke

"I know sexual harassment is a various serious offence and I would never do anything like this in my life. I have certain footage from Alandra's laptop webcam which I would like to show everyone before we proceed ahead.""

Saying so he switched on Alandra's laptop and connected it to projector and played the video where all can see Catherine typing on Alandra's system. Everyone looked at it and then Pam spoke" Ok so this shows that Catherine has sent mail from Alandra's system when she was not in office. But how does it proves that you haven't sexually exploited Catherine? Moreover, she met with an accident. How can we be sure that it was not you behind her accident?"

This question left Mike shocked. He chocked but then managed to speak " But you can see Catherine is wearing hand gloves while typing. This clearly shows it is a setup."

"Agreed. This proves that Catherine was trying to trap you in something but it is not enough to prove you have not misbehaved with her." Lucas said

Lucas actually has a valid point so Mike kept mumb. He gave up thinking this is the end for him when suddenly he heard Alandra's voice. She cleared her throat and spoke " Lucas It is sad Catherine is not here to give explanation of the situation but there is someone else who can tell us the truth."

Lucas looked at Alandra and asked "Who? Do you mean Michael?"

"No. Frank Hades." She said

"Frank? What he has to do with this case." Lucas asked surprisingly

" He is the one who knows what Catherine is planning and If I am not wrong he helped Catherine discreetly." Alandra added

Lucas looked with blank expression at her and then signalled his secretary to call Frank into the conference room.