Chapter 5: The Trial

Kaila knelt on the cold marble floor of Alys's chamber, cradling Alys's lifeless body in her arms, her cries echoed through the halls with bitterness and rage in her eyes,

"That evil wench! evil babe slayer!" Kaila screamed as her voice was grating with intensity of her pain, the cause of having to sacrifice her lovely daughter,

It haunts her, holding her heart she yelled, her veins contracts showing raw emotions which could not be dissect as no one would even think or know she had killed her own daughter.

"I told you! I told you she is nothing but an evil wench, See what she has done to my daughter!" Kaila yelled staring at the king,

Alpha Axel stood frozen to the spot, he was absolutely enraged, like a volcano that was about to erupt, seeing his only daughter drenched in a pool of her own blood.

He watched As the physicians came and washed her cold body and they did their observation and the mortician took her away.

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As the guards dragged Ava through the palace, domestic workers and servants gathered as their faces twisted with disdain and whispers soon turned into shouts of insults and curses.

"You monster!" A rat catcher screamed, his voice shrilled with rage, "you killed that innocent child!"

"Babes slayer!" Another kitchen maid shouted throwing the rotten vegetables she was meant to dispose at Ava, "you deserve to rot in hell like your father, child slayer!"

"Evil witch!" A man yelled spitting directly at her, "how could you harm a powerless girl?"

Ava flinched at every insults, her hearts bleeding and breaking at the weight of their hatred and rejection, her feets cold and the world around her crumbling, she had no chance to prove herself different from her father.

Ava cried, everyone hated her with passion what was the point of living when she's been accused of the most heinous crimes? how would she face Alpha Axel?

On reaching the big council Ava's sprit was utterly broken she was bruised and stained, the massive door swung open and she was pushed harshly inside by the guards.

Seeing the Lords of big houses And Alphas of Packs sneered with hatred in their eyes as she approached and was forcefully shoved on her knees before the king who sat at the head of the Council.

Ava has never seen a face spelt rage so clearly, Alpha Axel's own was unforgiving and unyielding, one could tell he finds the trial unnecessary, he wants to rip her to shred and feed her to the direwolves alive.

"Ava Killian of the House of Lycans, you stand accused of the most heinous sins, you will face the full wrath of this council and the justice of the realm, Do you have anything to say Tom your defense?" a chief justice asked.

The hall was silent as all these unyielding gaze filled with hatred, her face welled up with tears, she knew no matter what she said it wouldn't change anything, she was good as dead,

"I'd ask again, Ava of the House of Lycans, do you...."

"I am innocent," She cut in, her voice shaky as she knows she'd die either way, and if she'd die she dies saying the truth.

Alpha Axel's eyes narrowed, his fist clawed the arms of his throne, his fang grew sharp and his eyes turned palest of the blue whilst about to shift, but he tried hard to resist his seething.

"that evil wench, she is a liar!" Kaila's voice shrilled and echoed from her seat.

"Lady Kaila, Order!" The chief justice said.

"Let the trial begin!"Alpha Axel ordered.

As a maid entered with a tray, inside the tray was a silver strands of hair, and a knife only the House of Lycans family possessed stained with blood.

"This strands of hair is silver, the rarest of hair which only a decendant of the House of Lycans grow, and it is apparent this is your hair princess?" The chief justice asked as he passed it to Ava.

Ava's brows squinted in shock, as she nodded in affirmation it was her hair,

"Can you verbalize this affirmation?" The chief asked.

"This is truly a strand from my hair." Ava said.

"This looks like late Princess Alys's maid had pulled out this hair from your scalp whilst struggling with you, but you stabbed her to death and proceeded to stab princess Alys to death with this knife gifted to you by the mad king... A little child who is powerless and harmless to what end?" The chief asked.

Seeing all these evidences perfectly set up against her, Ava's jaw dropped, her heart pounding unable to comprehend the accusations hurled at her.

"You have lied to the king the protector of the realm, and to its council, After you committed the most heinous of sins... You are found guilty of all charges, Your execution would be precisely ordered by his majesty Alpha King Axel" The chief justice said.

Ava's legs weakened as the silent halls murmured all against Ava, and in anticipation of the kind of excruciating death she deserved.

Meanwhile, outside the gate of the trial hall the royal physician and his nurse asked for urgent entry into the trial hall,

"I need to see the king!" The royal physician asked.

"Have you gone mad Royal Physician? This is a trial room the likes of you are not welcomed" one of the guards said,

"This is concerning the trial, how could you stop an urgent information to the king?" The royal physician yelled,

"The Trial has almost come to an end, the wretched Princess is found guilty of murder the king would announce her execution soon so your information is not needed"

"What is going on?" Jeremy, Kaila's bodyguard heard the exchange from a distance and approached,

"I have an Information that must be relayed immediately to the king" he said, Jeremy's brows squeeze this was not part of their plan, what information could the royal physician have when Lady Kaila literally puts him on on everything.

"I just confirmed from the princess health catalog this morning, that Princess Ava has conceived the King's child and any execution order should be halted immediately, She is automatically immune as she carries a royal baby!"

The physician's word hung in the air like a death knell.

Jeremy's heart skipped as he gently grabbed him closer,

Considering the implications, Ava conceiving a royal child would make all Kaila's sacrifices go to a waste whilst surviving the execution, and the thought to stab this man to death crept his mind, he has to silence this man before anyone else hears this.

"Could you follow me sir? We can take a private entry directly to the king" Jeremy asked with a facade of smile, as the physician nodded relieved and followed..

As they walked, Jeremy's hand brushed the hilt of his concerned dagger, Jeremy's pulse quickened he knew he has to act quickly, For Kaila's sake __ and for his own..