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.

was an outbreak of laughter

stupid, Athena? That picture isn't edited. You have been caught in the act. Be truthful,

Ewan who was still seething

couldn't believe that Athena had the audacity to smile while on trial. She should be ashamed, begging for

Alfonso? I'm sorry, but I can't. That is not

you doing at hotel Lafoon two days ago, before your mother's burial?"

a room that had been booked

man. Weren't you?

were heading to with this. It's a good thing then, that Luca was here. He would come to her

I was there to meet an old

for the umpteenth time. He couldn't believe the balls of this

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

the murmurings got louder. It was so sinister and loud, that the chief elder had to strike the table to

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 the same day was when she had found out about

when she saw a smirk

her stomach,

her so much that she felt faint. Luca was her only source of salvation, but why was he looking like

speak only the truth?" The head of the ruling council asked, and Luca nodded

The accused had called

watched forlornly as Luca's eyes darted between Fiona

believe that her childhood friend, a best friend to her and Gianna, could do this to

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