Chapter 597: Strange, Isn’t it?

"What if she faked it, just like she planted that bottle in my room?"

But Daniel didn’t let her finish. His voice cut like a blade. "Give me the phone."

One of the guards quickly handed him the device, the same hidden phone Nnenna had seen in the compartment that day. Daniel’s hands tightened around it, his jaw clenching.

"Something tells me..." he said bitterly, regret heavy in his tone, "...I don’t even need to open this phone to know it holds the exact same evidence as what Princess Nnenna is holding. She traced the registration of the SIM card to you!" His gaze locked on Nanny, burning with fury. "Do you still deny it? Admit your guilt now, and your sentence might be lightened."

For the first time since the trial began, Nanny fell silent. Her tongue, always quick to defend or accuse, froze in her mouth.

First, the arsenide derivative discovered in her room and in Carl’s medicine. Now this private phone, filled with damning evidence she couldn’t explain away.

Something was wrong.

Her eyes finally shifted to Nnenna, really looking at her for the first time that day. But what she saw stopped her cold. There was no smugness, no victory shining in the girl’s face.

Nnenna’s expression wasn’t one of triumph, nor of someone who had set her up. It was calm, steady... almost sorrowful.

That could only mean one thing.

The evidence wasn’t fake. It was real.

Her chest tightened. A memory flashed in her mind, something that had happened four months ago, a shadow she had buried deep. No... The whisper escaped her lips, so faint no one else could hear. Her face drained of color before she forced composure back into place.

Too bad.

fear. The way Nanny’s expression cracked for just a heartbeat told her everything. Nnenna’s own eyes narrowed, mind racing, diving

husband. His face remained unreadable, a mask she couldn’t break through.

said at last, her voice low

Silence.

up, some had still clung to the hope

did it?" Daniel was the first to break the suffocating

answer. She stood still, her expression stiff,

His gaze flicked deliberately

as he turned to Nnenna,

the punishment?" Nnenna asked, though the

sentence... can be nothing less

rippled through the hall. Even those who despised Nanny when she pleaded guilty felt the weight of it. Death. The word alone chilled

Highness. We are forever in your debt." The Prime Minister bowed deeply toward Nnenna, his tone filled with respect that

her face

instructed firmly. "I

eyes widened. "You did that without anyone

have to go,"

quiet corridor, but her mind

whispered silently, something’s

you solved the mystery?" the

her brows furrowing. "But I

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