Chapter 63: Embedded Promise

"I-I am telling the truth, Your Highness! It was her!"

"Don't fucking disrespect her!"

The floor of the cell suddenly turned to ice and the lower extremities of the culprit got frozen.

"Ares," the King stopped him from going further.

I swallowed hard, couldn't defend myself. I'm even willing to trade my life just to save the queen, and yet I would be accused of such a big crime? What on earth is happening? There must be something big behind this. Why else would this man point me as the one who gave him the order?

"Can you prove your claim?" The king asked the culprit, it shook my faith.

"Arthur, he might be lying," the queen with her soft voice. She is really very kind.

"He might be, yes. But we should consider all the angles to know the truth, Romina."

"Father, Ophelia can never do that!" Demitri defended me.

"Ares is right, Father. She is kind. She would not dare do that," Prince David said.

"And she even helped us to get the cure for Mother. This man must be lying to put the blame