Chapter 49: I'm Innocent
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“Your Highness, you can’t go out of the interrogation room yet,” The Minister of Justice stated. His usual firm voice was a bit shaky.
“You’re acting kinda shady, Your Grace,” Catherine said, it sounded like she was wrong. She lowered her eyes, rubbing them with her handkerchief.
It made the minister flinch. “W-What are you trying to say, Your Highness?”
“Y-Your Grace,” her voice cracked, and under her lashes, drops of water fell. “I’m innocent.”
“It’s not that easy to say,” he uttered.
“But the evidence says it all. I’m innocent!” Her lovely emerald eyes glistened in tears and her soft pink cheeks and nose turned red. She cried and cried, and it had a power that caused the Minister of Justice to feel guilty.
‘What should I do? The duchess dowager wants to get rid of the princess,’ he thought, gritting his teeth as he remembered the letter he had received right after the princess presented her pieces of evidence. It was threatening him.
The duchess dowager knew what others didn’t know about him. Thus, he doesn’t have a choice.
“It’s true that your evidence was concrete. Since Saintess Estrella joined the trial court and became a witness, it was supposed to seal the deal of proving the princess's innocence.”
However, there is someone who was sabotaging her escape from the clutches of the Court of Justice.
She guessed there was someone. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know who he was.
“I-I didn't kill Lysanna. The saintess had seen everything!”:
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