Dark Revenge Of An Unwanted Wife: The Twins Are Not Yours!

Chapter 3: Betrayed

Athena maintained a stoic face as she was pushed to the center of the hall where a council of elders presided over issues emanating from the elites in the region. Not even her father's look of disappointment and disgust was able to excite an emotion out of her.

He hadn't believed her words the previous night, when Ewan had taken her to her home, rather he had kept cursing her for being as useless as her mother. Her father never forgave his wife for not giving him a son, before her death.

The only person that had believed her was Gianna. No one else from the elite community, or the public. If her mother had been alive, then...

"Athena Moore, you know why you are here right?"

Athena's attention returned to the matter on ground, when she heard Fiona's father speak. He was one of the elders in the ruling council, and of course, he hated her.

She shook her head mechanically to his question, eliciting murmurs from the crowd that had added up from the two families involved in the case. They couldn't believe her audacity.

"Athena, we are not here to play around. How can you not know why you are here? You have been accused of cheating on Mr Ewan of the Giacometti clan. What do you have to say on the matter?" Another elder asked, taking the reins of the interrogation.

"I didn't cheat on Ewan. If there was a cheat in our marriage, then it should be him. Weren't you all aware of his improper relationship with his best friend, Fiona? Frolicking with a mistress, under the guise of friendship..." Athena chuckled about the smartness of the arrangement, before speaking again.

"Did y'all say anything? Was Ewan sanctioned for disregarding the sacred union?" She questioned calmly, struggling to put her rageful emotions on hold. Bursting out in anger won't help her in the council.

Fiona's father scoffed. "What insolence! Do you have proof? Has your unfounded jealousy driven you to cheat on him with another man? Don't change us from the discourse, young lady. Tell us why you committed this disgraceful act, on the eve of your mother's funeral. Isn't that cruel?"

Athena inhaled deeply, feeling the jab sink straight into her heart and increase the pain that was already there to a hundred-fold. They would include her mother into this too?

At this point, she hated herself for ever choosing Ewan. If only she could turn back the hands of time.

"I didn't sleep with another man. That picture was edited, or the woman isn't me." She managed to answer, her hands remaining as fists by her side.

an outbreak of laughter in

You have been caught in the act. Be truthful, and we can

smiled then, annoying the hell out of Ewan who was still seething in anger over being betrayed by

the audacity to smile while on trial. She should be ashamed, begging

lie, Elder Alfonso? I'm sorry, but I can't. That

Alfonso smirked at Athena's response. "Okay then. What were you doing at hotel Lafoon two days ago, before your

of a room that had been

man. Weren't you? The CCTV had

knew where they were heading to with this. It's a good thing then, that Luca

I was there to meet an old friend for

fists for the umpteenth time. He couldn't believe the balls of this woman. Beside him was Fiona, with a false look of pity on

talk. I met him at the hotel. We had lunch at the hotel's eatery. Whilst there, I got sick, and he told me to move to the room—which I had booked for him in advance—and take a rest on the bed while

was so sinister and loud, that the chief elder had to strike the table to ensure silence. He gestured at her to continue when there

that the doctor had come and left. I took the medicines before leaving the room. I didn't see Luca, so I left him a message. Nothing happened, Elder Timothy. Luca is here. You can ask him." Athena finished with a definite calm, not finding it necessary to add that

chills transcending the contours of her body when she saw

her stomach, when

overwhelmed her so much that she felt faint. Luca was her only source

the truth?" The head of the ruling

that you know why you are here. The accused had called you as

Luca's eyes

she was condemned. She couldn't believe that her childhood friend,

he? What had they promised him? She wondered, her ears attuned to the lies he