The Dark Side Of Fate by Karima Sa'ad Usman novel Chapter 161

~Sylvester~

The people in the hall were confused when Larry started laughing. It seemed to them that he had lost his mind, but I knew better. He had a lot of things up his sleeves, but I was ready for him.

"Your Majesty, I accept I committed treason against your father and against you, but you know why. Your father and his officers took advantage of my fiancée, who was pregnant with my child back then and destroyed her life. The woman ended up committing suicide. For people with a harem and unlimited access to beautiful women, why take mine?" He asked, and everyone was silent.

"I will bear the punishment for my crimes if you have the heart to convict your mother and half-brother for treason, too," He said and looked at everyone.

"Is that not what a king should do? He should be impartial and dish out justice regardless of who it might affect. Our King here knows his mother's part in the death of his father and his officers; he knows his mother invited councilwoman Jenny to her home and killed her to hide her secret; he also knows that his half-brother, Vino, who is Jenny and Marcel's son was part of my team. Yet he hid them away and condemned others. How is this a fair judgement? This is the very reason why the Volkovs are feared and hated. They abuse their power and abuse the law. Yes, he is King, which puts him above all of us, but should he not be accountable to his people? If he loves his subjects, he should go out of his way to make them understand why. I will gladly take my punishment if he does the right thing." Larry said, and I was flabbergasted by the audacity he had to think he still had a choice in this, but he had laid down serious allegations, which I expected, and it was time to tackle them.

"Very well then. However, I will state it now that you do not have any choice in the matter and will be punished accordingly, regardless of how your feel or your will.

I will humour and respect my subjects by attending to the matter you have spoken of," I said. Just then, enforcer Bryce walked Lucas Sidorov into the hall.

People began to scream, believing they had seen a ghost.

Larry's eyes widened. He was unconscious when we took Lucas from his house in Gad, so he might have believed we did not get him. After all, he had hidden the man in a hidden storage room. Had we not been thorough, we wouldn't have found him.

"Calm down, everyone," Leo said and banged the gavel.

I saw Vino laugh a bit. I could understand his amusement because that used to be his job, and seeing his reaction showed he did not like it much. Neither did Leo because he was a bit short.

"Are you still making claims, Larry?" I asked the man, and he was silent.

"Larry here confessed to us that he drugged my father and his officers to force them to misbehave; then he fed Sir Lucas stories that would tip him off. There was a fight in the inn where they lodged, and Sir Lucas ended up as the winner, with my father and Sir Gavin dead.

Alpha Devin walked in on him, and Sir Lucas was too afraid to return, so he asked Devin to claim the kill. Devin reluctantly agreed. Unfortunately for Sir Lucas, Larry's men were lying in wait.

They took him while he was trying to leave. Larry has kept Sir Lucas with him since then, torturing and maltreating him for the crime he claimed they committed against his lover.

As for Jenny, she was a part of his team, and she tricked her son into joining them by working on his vulnerability and using Amanda Richford to get him on her team.

They later found out he wasn't useful to them because all he ever wanted was to be recognised by his true family. He could not leave because of the implications, so he remained trapped.

Amanda's pregnancy did not help matters either. When he decided to come to me, Larry instructed Amanda to kill him; we rescued him from Amanda.

If we had not located them on time, he would have been another dead body added to Larry's belt.

As for my mother and Jenny, Jenny had been blackmailing my mother for years over an anonymous letter she sent to Devin out of desperation. Although she warned Devin of what she believed was my father's intentions in the south, she never asked Devin to kill him. Councilman Corrigan never got the letter, so it isn't admissible today.

Jenny visited my mother with enforcers to kill her, and she had to defend herself. We decided to keep it quiet to investigate what was happening. I hope all I have said is enough to satisfy all your curiosity," I said, and everyone was silent as should be. The last part was a lie but tied up nicely, and none was the wiser.

Larry looked at me and realised he wasn't going to win.

"If you think I am your problem, then you should have a rethink, your Majesty. I am just a pawn in a wide game. A desperate man that went on an adventure to seek revenge. I sought out power and resources to carry out my plans. I might have failed, but the next one won't. I am not alone." Larry said, and I laughed. I knew he was trying to scare us so he could remain alive. If I believed him, I won't let him die just in case I needed information to battle the 'one' that would come. The man was a joke, and he was pathetic.

"It is sad that you did all you did and destroyed many lives because of a lie," Sir Lucas Sidorov said to him, and Larry was angry.