The Dragon King's Substitute Bride
Chapter 97
Chapter 96
CH96 Ari
I groaned and slowly lifted my head. My head spun. So many days in darkness had made my sense dull, but I heard his voice.
"Had a good time in the dungeon thief?"
I snarled, lifting my head. "You-"
I broke off, stunned at the sight of the man standing over me, wearing Tsuneo's face, but there
was nothing in his expression that I could recognize as Tsuneo.
I went still. There was a darkness behind his dark opal eyes that had never been there before. The air felt cold. My heart raced.
Then, he turned. "If everyone is
Then, I looked around.
here, let's begin."
The hall was packed, filled with the Elders, servants, and a few guards. I saw most of the court there as well. It seemed that everyone but that human was here. Was she dead? That would be my luck.
"What the hell is going on? 1-
"Quiet," Tsuneo said, his voice low and cold. It felt like a hand had wrapped around my throat and squeezed. I could barely breathe.
"Father," he said, turning to the king. "Where would you like to begin?"
He blinked, looking between him and me. "I'm curious to know your sense of justice and proceedings, Tsuneo... I will allow you to run it as you see fit."
A cruel, vicious smile came over his face. "Thank you, Father."
He gestured to the group of servant. "We'll start with the most disturbing of crimes: your treatment of the staff. Never has it been allowed, condoned, or right to treat those who care for the members of the royal family in such a fashion. You, who have benefitted only from the benevolence of the royal family have stepped on the very benevolence to which you owe your life, or did you forget that you are the daughter of a traitor and should have been killed?"
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Tsuneo knew. I hadn't even thought he would ever bring it up. The murmurs that
sick.
seems that you were more than content
to speak but the sounds wouldn't come
to them. "We'll go in order as
here."
but I noted that Anya was
is it really necessary to have every
man over his shoulder, his eyes gleaming with a dark light. "If you seek to make a mockery of that belief, I'll have you bound, investigated, and tried within
furious, but I didn't understand why het would do
came up to stand
I want you to go to the box and find that which Ari
or yell, I could barely move, but she went to the boxes that had been brought and pulled
how it had been a family heirloom, but who cared.
owned belonged to me. I could take
my
probably just stole it from some other noblewoman, or her mother or grandmother had. I looked the king prepared to defend myself, but I went still as I noted the look
and guards stepped up.
has Ari taken
of mind,
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have family who works
allow my sisters to
alive-
The Elders sputtered.
home from Elder Hara. Ari has... more than once intimated that she would ensure that we would all be fired if I didn't comply ith her wishes." Elder Hara went still. Tsuneo didn't even glance at him. I glared at the man, but I couldn't
serve me.
she has blackmailed you into doing," Tsuneo said. From the look on your
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