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Chapter 82: The Execution
They failed at both. The audience roared again, this time in anger. There were voices shouting things like “kill them!”
They wanted blood. They wanted someone to pay for the attacks, all the deaths, and all the suffering.
“Do you have anything to say for yourself?” Micheal asked.
Cecilia pleaded, repeating the same excuses she had before. She had an air of desperation as if she could delay the inevitable as long as she could keep talking.
Micheal cut her off with an invitation for Abe to speak. He refused, remaining silent and still. Ellis had to give him credit. He was facing his fate with dignity, making no excuses, not begging or pleasing like his mate was.
“I will discuss with the jurors now,” Micheal announced.
It took fifteen minutes of deliberation before Micheal and the jurors returned.
“We find you guilty of High Treason,” Micheal said and the crowd screamed its approval. &ldquo
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