Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband-Chapter 334: Dorothy’s dismissal.

The ghost commentator that all the other ghosts hated was having the time of his life up on the bench besides the judges.

"Ooooh, I smell a betrayal, Rex Chapman just turned on Dorothy Crook, what we are witnessing here ladies, gentlemen and ghosts is a sumo slam."

"What the hell is a sumo slam?" Another ghost asked.

"Will Dorothy somersault and rise or tap out, it’s an exciting moment, one for the history books." Pete continued.

Phoebe would have told the Saxon spirit to stop Pete if she was not enjoying herself at the sudden unexpected turn of events. She thought that she would be on trial but suddenly Dorothy was the one about to be on trial.

It looked like she did not even need to deploy Connie to whisper into the ears of the judges their hidden secrets to prompt them to vote wisely. Blackmail had been her big plan; Luna had provided information not just on Rex and Dorothy but the other judges except for Rufus whose turn up was unexpected.

Phoebe carefully removed her six-inch heels and gave her feet the chance to be comfortable as she settled in her chair to enjoy the free drama. She even shot Pete a thumbs up for the great job he was doing in describing the atmosphere as it was.

Those who did not know that she was acknowledging Pete assumed she was acknowledging Rex who was closest to Pete.

It raised questions among the spectators, some wondered if Rex had been bought off by the Mayfair’s, others wondered if they were blackmailing him because he had turned on Dorothy so quickly.

There were those like Dickson that frowned, things were not going as they expected.

Poor Rex Chapman was just confused, he had no idea what Phoebe was up to and he hoped that she would not implicate him in whatever she was plotting.

Phoebe turned her head around and looked at Dorothy, she looked like a sad wet dog. Phoebe couldn’t contain her laughter when she noticed that all of Dorothy’s cronies had abandoned her, and she was sitting alone with her shoulders slumped.

"For a woman as tenacious as she is, she has given up too soon." The Saxon spirit commented.

Phoebe thought so as well, she had been expecting to see Dorothy put up a fight, now she just looked defeated and pitiful.

"You, Mrs. Cook are guilty of conniving with the Gianis family to steal land from the council." Grandpa Saxon’s words elicited gasps from the listeners.

"What?"

"My God!"

"That can’t be right, Dorothy is as upright as a pole, she would not engage in theft."

"Mr. Rufus Saxon is even more upright, he wouldn’t say it if it wasn’t true."

Dorothy stood up hastily to say something but there was nothing she was going to say was going to convince the people who had already believed Rufus Saxon. It didn’t help that Rufus was holding up papers that looked like evidence that could not be denied. She stammered and the words got caught in her throat.

Rex hissed. "Sit down if you have nothing to say."

Dorothy wrinkled her nose and glared at grandpa Rufus, the dog in her refused to back down easily. "Ha-ha, it’s quite shameful that a man of your age has resorted to fabricating lies against me." She turned from side to side, looking at the spectators, "You all know how powerful the Saxons are, they could have fabricated that evidence easily to pin a crime on me!" She shuffled her feet.

Murmurs went around but not one person expressed support for Dorothy.

Grandpa Rufus clicked his tongue and shook his head in disbelief. "So are you saying that you did not take bribes from Saul Gianis the director of Jitz hotels in exchange of him cheaply buying land around the lake? Deny it let me see how brazen you are."

He scanned her face, waiting for her to deny what she knew to be true.

Dorothy felt her legs go weak; she never thought her deals with Saul Gianis would come to light. If they had, it could only mean one thing, they had done a very deep dive into her.

The money from the bribes she had received were not in an account under her name. She had met Gianis in a remote fishing town, far away from Citrus or anywhere they could be seen together. How had they found out her secret?

As Dorothy was still trying to understand her situation, Saul Gianis was summoned by grandpa Rufus.

"I am finished." Dorothy whispered, she regretted messing with Phoebe Mayfair.

Saul Gianis explained that everything grandpa Rufus had said was the truth.

"I have all the evidence including recordings of her specifying the amount of money she wanted from me. I want to make it clear that I did not intend to flaunt council law, the Jitz hotels application to buy or lease land from the council was genuine. It was Mrs. Cook that came to us with this deal, I am ashamed that we fell for it and to make up for our mistake, we will back out of the deal and pay a fine to the council." He bowed in Rex’s direction and stepped on the side to wait for judgement.

He was polite because the families the people in this hall came from could cripple the business owned by his family. It was better to atone and lose one hand than be stubborn and lose an entire body.

Grandpa Rufus clapped once. "Ladies and gentlemen, the only reason Dorothy Cook brought up this petition in the first place was so that Phoebe could unfairly loose the land so that she could sell it to Saul Gianis to build another Jitz hotel. This hearing should not even be happening in the first place."

Murmurs arose from the congregation as they discussed the issue.

Blair Lee judge on the council and Shanna’s father cleared his throat. "On that note, I move a motion to dismiss Mrs. Dorothy Cook from her position." His threatening gaze moved to watch Rex just like the rest of the members of the council.

Rex had no choice but to call for a vote, within thirty minutes the votes were in with majority seconding the motion.

"Henceforth, Mrs. Dorothy Cook is dismissed from her position as the head of the homeowner’s association and her activities while she held the position will be investigated thoroughly. If any misconduct is found, she will be punished according to the laws of the council." He struck the gavel once.

Grandma Mayfair stood up and cheered at the top of her voice, she even set off a popper which startled everyone.

"What a sweet outcome." The Saxon spirit twirled around.

Connie copied the spirit and she twirled around as well. "We have grandpa Saxon to thank for that, it’s because of him that all this went too quickly and smooth."

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Meanwhile Dorothy was dragged out of the hall screaming her neck off as she swore to revenge against Rex whom she claimed betrayed her.

Rex asked sanity to return to the hall. "Mr Saul Gianis, you hereby ordered to return all the land that was sold to you by Mrs. Dorothy Cook" He pointed at Saul, "You should be grateful that we did not send you to prison or get your family involved in all this, besides the council will not return any penny that you used to buy the land including the bribes and you must pay a six million dollar fine." He signaled at the guards to escort him away.

His eyes moved to Phoebe who was in high spirits. "The hearing is dismissed, Miss Phoebe Mayfair we apologize for the inconvenience caused."