The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King

After lunch, the court resumed trial, calling Marie Martin to the stand. As soon as she sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in the mirror when she was getting ready. Her back straightened to project as much confidence as she could.

However, the fear behind her lilac eyes couldn’t be covered by those long eyelashes, nor could it be overshadowed by the dark circles underneath her eyes. If she wasn’t horrified right now, there would have been something wrong with her. As the Finance Minister, as someone who has direct access to government funds, she had so many bribery offers over the years that she lost count.

Her charges were a little different from her three other colleagues who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and…‘business deals’. They found that she received bribes from construction companies who wanted government projects.

Marie’s most daring deal was with regards to the construction of low-cost apartments for the middle-class Lycan community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. The prosecution, with the court’s permission, added this to the charges against her.

Things clearly looked worse for Marie Martin than it did for the other three ministers. The only comfort she got before taking the stand was the fact that one of her two sons, Henry Martin, now seated at the front row on the other side of the aisle from the royals, told her that she looked ‘presentable and responsible’ in the pastel pink blouse and black coat and pants she chose to wear for the trial.

When Henry told his mother that his brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together with that gold-digging, connections-dependent girlfriend of his, all because they played a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver, Marie was furious!

‘As if the Duke and King themselves didn’t pull harmless pranks when they were younger’, she thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all of them, throwing insults and shaming anyone and everyone she wanted to.

those fake innocent eyes, and even the King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the late King Lucas. He never allowed Queen Vera to speak as she pleased, and look how wonderful and

“No.”

“Are you sure?”

had the opportunity as Finance Minister, it doesn’t mean

have in

could be fabricated for all we know. It took so long