Chapter 244


    J touched his hand, which was cold and mmy, and it sent a shiver down her body.


    “Get it together, Westin,” she whispered into his ears.


    He took a deep, shuddering breath and nodded, “Yeah I know…Thanks.”


    J turned to look at Agnes and sneered, “me Westin? You have got to be fucking kidding me.


    Is this how you guilted Clemente over the years? Nobody will be med tonight, except you. Get


    ready to be punished!”


    Agnes’s face twisted with rage, “Shut up! You have no right to talk to me like


    what she has to say!”


    Agnes trembled, her eyes filled with tears, “Westin! I did all of these for you! Can you find a single


    person on this who loves you as much as I do? We grew up together. We are meant to be


    together! The Moon Goddess must have got it right…Let’s fix her mistake now…”


    Westin gave her a look of deep disgust.


    “Your love disgusts me.” he hissed, “I would have rejected you on the spot if the Moon Goddess


    assigned you to me.”


    “NO!” Agnes cried, “No you are lying…You just need time to process this…You wille around


    eventually-”


    “Unfortunately, time is what you don’t have,” J said icily. “You will be sentenced and start paying


    for your own sin.”


    Agnes gritted, “You–You shameless ugly lowborn-”


    “Oh, and you talked about how you hated Keavy so much. But why did you stay married to him for


    years? Why didn’t you ask him to reject your mate bond? And why did you give birth to his son?”


    Agnes flinched, “It…It is none of your business…”


    “Let me guess. Because you can’t give up on the extravagant life and noble status that he gave


    you,” J said with a taunting smile. “You enjoy being called ady. You love hanging out with the


    elder’s daughters and pretend that you are a highborn


    yourself. Unfortunately, no matter how hard you fake it, none of this is real.


    “Shut up! SHUT UP!”


    Agnes roared, her beautiful face smudged by tears, “I AM ady! A member of the House of


    Shadow! All the girls look up to me-”


    “Not anymore!”


    Elder Lamonte snapped and turned to Westin with a stern face, “House of Shadow officially waives


    our protection of her! I ask for the King’s permission to expel her from our house-”


    “Your permission is granted,” Westin said icily.


    Agnes copsed on the floor. Her face carried a zed expression of shock.


    “No…No…my title…” she murmured.


    “Your title is stripped away! You are amoner now!” Clemente snapped.


    “No…You can’t do this…I will die ady…”


    Just then, a cry came from behind their backs and a small figure came dashing into the crowd.


    Bryan rushed to her mother’s side and stood firmly in front of her, keeping her behind his small


    body.


    “You bad guys!” he shrieked, “Stay away from my mom!”


    Agnes pulled him close and wailed to his shoulder, “My son… My poor son…Do you know what


    they are doing to your mother?”


    Bryan hid in her arms and kept a wary eye on everyone around them.


    “Bryan!” Clemente called his niece’s name and took a step forward, “Come over to me. Don’t listen


    to what she said-”


    “You swore to protect my mom! But you are hurting her! You big old liar! You all are!!!” the 5–year–


    old’s cry echoed in the room.


    Clemente froze on his spot.


    How could he exin to his niece that his own mother killed his father?


    No….it was too cruel.


    J looked to Westin and lowered her voice, “We can’t let this go on. You need to make a


    decision quickly.”


    “…Yeah, you are right.”


    Westin inhaled deeply and looked down at Agnes coldly, “Hand over the poison’s cure now. You


    have killed Keavy already. Don’t make Elder Randy your second mistake.”


    Agnes gritted, “No… You will never get that cure…Never…‘


    “Then I am striping the title of your son as well,” Westin said cruelly. “Think about it. When you die,


    your son will be amoner living on the street, with no title, no family, and nobody to protect


    him-”


    “NO!!” Agnes shrieked, tightening her arms around her child.


    “Mom! Mom!” the child burst into tears, “You can’t let them do that! I don’t want to live on the


    street!”


    Westin’s eyes gleamed coldly, “It is your choice to make.”


    Agnes cried, devastated. Her tears drenched Bryan’s jacket.


    After a long pause, she whispered in a broken voice, “The cure…is in my


    room…bottom drawer of my dresser…”


    Clemente let out a sigh of relief and hurried to get the cure and save Elder Randy.


    Westin waved his hand, “Take Master Bryan away.”


    Two soldiers closed up upon the mother and son and snatched Bryan from Agnes’s


    arms.


    “My son-“Agnes screamed.


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    “Mom!!” Bryan cried, kicking his tiny legs and starching the soldier’s face. “I hate you! I hate all of


    you! I will kill you one day! Go to hell! All of you—”


    His voice disappeared into the distance.


    Agnes sank to the floor. She looked as though she just lost her soul.


    “I don’t want to wait for the trail. I am making my decision about her right now, Westin said in a


    freezing voice, loud enough for everyone in the room to hear. “I think we can all agree that a simple


    death would be too easy for her.”


    All the elders nodded in unison.


    “The water dungeon.”


    Westin said with cruelty gleaming in his eyes, “She will spend the rest of her life in the water


    dungeon, at the bottom level of this castle. She will be soaked in ice–cold water and be beaten by


    snakes and mice every single day. Let this endless torment be her punishment.”


    “Agreed!” everyone cried.


    The soldier yanked Agnes up, chained her, and shoved her out of the room.


    J watched her out of sight.


    The Lycan’s punishment was even harsher than she thought. Compared to living in endless


    torment, maybe a clean death could be more merciful.


    But she didn’t feel sorry for Agnes.


    Agnes deserved this..


    And if she didn’t take down her enemy, she would be the one who suffered.


    “You are all dismissed,” Westin said in an exhausted voice. “I need a moment with my Queen.”


    The elders bowed to them in silence and filed out of the room.


    The hall was vacant soon.


    J thought Westin was going to me her for acting solo. She was ready for his scold.


    Yet the next second, she was pulled into a pair of strong arms.


    “Westin!” she was startled.


    “Stay…” he murmured hoarsely, his voice shaking. “I am not doing anything…Just… let me hold


    you for a bit longer…Please…”


    She stopped struggling and stood there still. She could feel his quickened heart rate at this


    proximity.


    “What should I do…” he sighed by her ears.


    “What?”


    “I think I just love you even better, which I didn’t think was possible… J, what should I do with


    this love?”