Pregnant I left him To His First Love by Collins Patrick

Chapter 164

"All rise," the court clerk announces and they all stand to their feet as the judge comes inside.

Liana is not in chains today, she is sitting beside Kelvin with Leila beside them, Amanda made it in time to look after Amara this time and Carmela is sitting on the other side behind Justin. There are a few council elders also present but Trent is not.

The judge takes his seat and they all follow but the clerk remains standing. "All those having business with this court at this hour, stand forward and you shall be heard. Judge Bruce Tanner is presiding."

Judge Bruce clears his throat. "Is the pack prepared to make an opening statement?"

"Yes your honour," Justin replies sharply, shooting Kelvin a challenging look as he walks up to the podium.

"The facts of the case are these: Fifteen years ago, on the eve of the blood moon festival, our Alpha at the time sent the accused and her family on a celebratory visit to one of our neighbouring packs but the accused had malicious intentions and intentionally left her young daughter behind so she can, without guilt, murder our dear Beta Henry Rogers. May his timeless soul, rest in eternal peace," he taps his chest twice and points to the air as he steps away from the podium, in front of the open court.

"You see your honour, my colleague here, Kelvin Costner is going to try and sway you and this court from this fact by painting tales for us, beautiful tales of filial love, the love of a wife for her husband, the love mates share for one another, the love a woman has for the father of her child but today, I will prove, one, her motive.

"Our ex luna, if I am permitted to say is not the biological daughter of our late Beta, the Beta-"

him, jumping to her feet, rage swallowing up every sense of reason that she

will be banned from this courtroom

Leila, smoothing his hand down his chest, urging her to calm down and

dare to question her mother's loyalty to her father, she'll deal with all of them, every

smiles cockily

interrupted,

was saying, before

this truth and confronted his dear wife, this lead to a heated argument and to hide her shame, not to risk her infidelity being exposed, in order to conceal her treachery and

in

culprit themselves and this is just a case like that. We will also provide you with evidence to support our claims that she indeed murdered her husband.

and confidently saunters back to

Kelvin," Judge

she had no motive or reason and any argument

honourable court and myself heard my colleague clearly, he said, 'her husband MUST HAVE found out.' This leads me to believe that what he calls a motive is mere speculation on

of agreement ripple through the court and even