
Edward approached Leathina and immediately took off the royal robe he was wearing and put it on Leathina to cover Leathina's body whose clothes were now torn apart by Thomas's actions.
“Bring Leathina in her room, let her rest she must be very shaken now.” Winter tells Anne to bring Leathina back to her room to rest.
Leathina shook her head weakly as she felt her head still very dizzy, the dose of sleeping pills mixed by Thomas into the alcohol he had taken may be very high until even though he had eaten the antidote before the effect is still Leathina felt.
Leathina with all her remaining strength tried to stand alone but then staggered behind Edward who had been nearby immediately caught him from falling, “Leathina?” Edward asked Leathina as Leathina brushed off his hand and refused his help.
After gathering her body strength again and with an unstable pace Leathina walked up to Thomas bowing and whispering something to Thomas.
“They sacrificed you.” Leathina's whisper then grinned.
Thomas's eyes widened, not expecting that Leathina had known everything from the start and deliberately stuck herself to trap him back.
“It is better to tell the truth who asked you to do all this and your head will be safe in its place.” Leathina's whisper again then fell down in front of Thomas.
“Leathina!” Soon Edward and Winter, who were closest to her, approached her.
“You, you, are so outrageous. I didn't expect you to give me the alcohol you had mixed with sleeping pills.” Pekik Leathina, deliberately attracting the attention of the people, glanced at Yasmine and stared at her intensely making Yasmine slowly retreat to hide behind the guests who had come to watch.
“Drag him to the main hall for everyone to see.” Duke Leonard gave the order then two guards violently dragged Thomas' body into the main hall as duke Leonard ordered.
Everyone had now moved in the main hall and Thomas was put in the middle of being tried directly by Duke Leonard with all the visitors being witnesses as they had all seen the sad incident earlier with their own eyes.
“What did you do to my son Duke!” The flinched grand duke Alcott who had just appeared out of nowhere and upon returning to the main hall saw his proud son had been held captive like a top-tier criminal, soon he approached his son and snapped at the two guards who bound Thomas.
“Oh, it turns out that brash man is your son grand duke,” Said Duke growled, “It should be no lower than you.”
“KAU!”
“Your son plans to desecrate my daughter Leathina. Is this your plan after your daughter's failed engagement with Nicholas!”
“B-how can ..” Grand duke Alcott's speech was interrupted and then fell sitting next to his son turned out his son was caught red-handed, he turned to look for Yasmine but instead Yasmine did not care at all and continued to bring herself closer to Prince Yardley.
There was no more reason for the grand duke to look around for excuses and defend himself since everyone saw him for themselves. If he did, he would be in a difficult situation.
Yasmine was actually waiting for her men to immediately pretend to kill her already since she was restless because her men did not come too.
After looking towards Yasmine grand duke Alcott then looked towards Leathina and saw her leathina grinning then following the movements of her mouth, “I know everything.” That was what the grand duke caught, making his blood seem to spill out when he realized what would happen to him and his family next.
“Dia!” the grand duke shouted pointing towards Yasmine, “He who asked my son to do so.” His shout shocked everyone who did not believe what the grand duke Alcott said.
“Do not origin accuse.” People are starting to take sides.
“There may be Miss Yasmine doing that.”
“Iya, do not blame your mistakes to others.”
No one believed what grand duke Alcott said, he circulated his gaze and how shocking it was to him when he saw the hateful gazes of everyone who was fixed on him.
“Damn you Yasmine, you sacrificed me and my son.” He muttered furiously and clenched his hands beside his books in sight.
“Nona Leathina please listen to me.” Grand duke Alcott runs towards Leathina but the guards mean winter and Edward immediately blocks her from fearing if she suddenly injures Leathina again.
“Speak!” leathina gave the grand duke Alcott a chance and, hearing Leathina allow the grand duke Alcott to speak, the guards holding him off let him go, the grand duke walked towards Leathina with his knees and stopped when it had been about a meter in front of her.
“Nona Leathina thanks for your generosity,” said gran duke starting his explanation. “A few days ago Miss Yasmine came to see me and told me her evil plan by offering to support me if she had become the next empress, he asked my son to take away Miss Leathina's chastity from the crown princess candidate he even asked my son to make Miss Leathina show her body to everyone to bear the shame of a lifetime but my son refused forgive her Miss.”
"On what basis should I forgive a man who is only a little merciful not intending to expose me, but to continue to commit other crimes against me." Leathina did not expect when she heard grand duke Alcott asking her to forgive his son just for disagreeing with Yasmine's second request.
The people who heard the grand duke Alcott's explanation were shocked instead of playing, there was a rumble in the main hall as a result of the people talking to each other asking each other for still disbelief then immediately shunned Yasmine until Yasmine could be clearly seen standing on her own.
"So you mean to desecrate me is not common." Leathina sarcasm.
"I-I don't mean that, miss," she stammered in fear. "You should know Yasmine isn't as good as you think she's been wearing a mask." Hadrik grand Duke Alcott on Yasmine.
“Liar!” Shouted Yasmine in self-defense, “There may be me doing such a cruel thing, I do not even know you and your son grand duke do not trap me and pull me into the mud with you.” Yasmine refuses to be the accused.
The grand duke was increasingly shocked not to play when he heard Yasmine's words just now and saw that his son had been dying from the wounds on his body and was bleeding a lot.
“Yasmine you ..” The grand duke's words were interrupted no longer knowing how for people to believe him he resigned and ended up staring at Leathina with hope.
“Pity once, you used to the end and ended up with wasted.” Inner Leathina was concerned to see the state of the grand duke and her son ending so horribly.
Leathina looked at Edward, Edward whose five senses were very sharp immediately realized that someone was watching him and immediately turned to Leathina right away her guess was never wrong Leathina who kept seeing him.
Edward nodded in understanding after looking at Leathina as he had previously agreed that Edward would help Leathina to catch Yasmine's man.
Edward walked up to Duke Leonard and whispered something to Duke Leonard until he was shocked to hear what Edward said.
“Bring here, Prince Edward.” He asked Edward to prove what Duke Leonard had told him.
“Actually on my way here I accidentally saw some suspicious people who happened to cross paths with me and immediately arrested him because when they wanted to see his invitation they did not want to show it, after being caught it turns out they are the hitmen hired by someone to kill.” Prince Edward told the others.
“Bring him in!” edward shouted at the person who then emerged from the main door, some people were dragging five robed men into the main hall and the one who dragged them in was Adam, Troy, Nina and some of Edward's other men.
“Trang ..”
“Tak ..”
While in the middle of the hall, Adam threw several sharp weapons on the floor, showing everyone that they were assassins.
“Gosh.” Screaming the guests scared.
The hitmen they caught glanced at Edward who was standing right in front of him as Edward's eyes filled with intimidation the murderous aura Edward could feel made him not dare to move things in detail because afraid of his life flying.
“Se-someone paid us to commit murder here.” Said the stammering criminal.
“Who?” Edward asked in a loud voice.
The villains looked towards Yasmine then hesitantly pointed at Yasmine.
“Wait! You set me up, how can you all do this to me!” yasmine shouted in disbelief and pretended to be a victim.
“No, not me.” He said softly then slowly retreated about to escape but quickly the guards working at Yarnell's residence confronted him. “No one can leave the hall before the court finishes Miss, you can really be a suspect if you do.” Said the guard explaining to Yasmine to make Yasmine unable to wince.
“Say!” Edward made a voice asking for more explanation from the criminal.
“We are ordered to pretend to kill him if his plan does not go smoothly and ask us to leave a trail to trap someone.”
“There is no evidence to say that Miss Yasmine committed the crime.” Said someone suddenly speaking from behind the crowd he was the right hand of the queen who was deliberately sent to monitor Yasmine's movements.
“Don't misunderstand Duke, I'm not taking sides only my saying is not wrong is not?” He asked as Duke stared at him intensely.
“All queen.” Inner Leathina upon seeing her as if she was the truest.
“Daddy didn't yesterday we found smuggling foreign races in our kingdom.” Said Leathina suddenly bringing up the problem she had just solved.
“What's Leathina?” Ask Duke.
“I promised I'd find a smuggling mastermind for you, didn't I? Tonight I will arrest his perpetrator as an honor to be a member of the Yarnell family who always stands on the right side.”
“Oh, you consider yourself a hero apparently.” Said Melissa, who is the queen's envoy she is one of the geniuses in the kingdom that's why her way of speaking is always degrading.
“Madam Melissa, thank you for your compliment. But aren't you too smart just to throw out the words of a fool like that.”
“How dare you!” Threatening Melissa did not accept being humbled by Leathina.
“Good drag him here!” Leathina exclaimed as she pointed towards Yasmine's personal servant.
“Lord and Miss,” Said Leathina beginning her confession, “A few days ago I found the smuggling of foreign races into our kingdom and one of them is the elf race, the, do you know how dangerous this is for the kingdom?” Leathina asked deliberately provokingly.
“Of course I secretly did an investigation and managed to find evidence to catch the culprit.” Leathina looks at grand duke Alcott, the, he saw the lung man slightly shake his head to ask Leathina not to mention the matter because the punishment would definitely increase because she was one of the masterminds of the smuggling that Leathina found yesterday.
“For what you brought my servant, Leathina!” Jerit Yasmine disagrees.
“Hustt, you just shut up that sweet Miss Yasmine I'll do a confession for you.” Leathina smiled sweetly.
A cold sweat covered Yasmine he began to pinch the back of his own hands looking at her melissa hoping to get a defense.
“Originally you know that all the smuggled people are labeled from a fire-heated iron stamp, exactly like this.”
“Srek” Leathina tore off Liza's dress then saw a used cross stamped on a hot object.
Everyone covered his mouth, completely shocked to see the stamp marks on Liza's body. Not only was it all over the liza's body also covered in bruised scars on her calves and her back many lash marks.
“God is evil once.” Say it to people after seeing it.
“Who did that cruel thing in this day and age?”
“Husss, lower your voice. She's Miss Yasmine's personal servant of course the one who did it was her employer.” The other chimpanzee whispered.
“Providing punishment to a waiter who makes a mistake is natural,” said melissa defended. “But by doing this directly you have accused Ms. Yasmine of smuggling, I know that your relationship is indeed not good with Ms. Yasmine but accuse her like this is not very outrageous.”
“Grand duke!” Leathina said and made the grand duku prostrate directly in front of Leathina.
“I-it, it's my business Miss Leathina, I beg you, forgive me. The business belongs to me who cooperates with Miss Yasmine all the servants of her house are from the outsiders we smuggle and to mark them Miss Yasmine proposes to stamp the hot iron so as to can't run, please forgive me Miss.” Grand duke's words were clear.
“No it's a lie!” yasmine yells does not accept, “Jagan origin talk you old bangka.” His scream while pulling his own hair as it held back his emotions, he screamed and threw all the objects that were nearby.
The gentle nature that Yasmine had always shown went nowhere, which people saw now was only a woman with explosive emotions. People began to avoid him for fear of being hit by the broken glass that Yasmine threw in any direction.
“Bring them in.” Leathina again gave the order and entered the people who leathina saved in the smuggled goods storage house, “Look, it was she who kidnapped you and separated you from your family.” Leathina said as she pointed with her eyes, deliberately showing Yasmine's face for them to cultivate a grudge on Yasmine.
Leathina wants them to remember the lifetime of faces that have made them suffer, and vice versa Leathina wants Yasmine to see the people who have been made to suffer by her so that Yasmine cannot live quietly for the rest of her life.
Surprise after surprise keeps coming, though, until finally making everyone confused in determining his belief after hearing all the evidence that has been revealed of course it is not revealed by itself the cause is because Leathina who makes it like that because she is had planned it carefully just to reveal the truth.
He creates his own game flow to create a win he has never won before, Leathina pulls her target into his game and naturally they play their respective roles.
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I don't know what the authors are today, though, but after reading your comments the author so moved to sit for hours more in front of the screen while imagining himself to write a new chapter again for today.
The author just wants to tell you this chapter are two chapters that the author joined into one, because it is tired of editing twice. So today you read four chapters. 😁
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