"No! Please don't do this to me! Your Majesty, please give me a chance! Please..." Janessa's desperate screams fell on deaf ears as the guards dragged her forcibly out of the Alpha King's manor on Gideon's orders.
Ensley remained by the doorway, thoroughly stunned by the scene that had just unfolded. He glanced warily at Gideon, then at Adeline, trying to gauge the tension in the room.
"Dad, you should not have granted her an audience in the first place," Gideon stated, his tone laced with suppressed fury. "Janessa repeatedly accused Adeline of Wilfred's murder. She and her mother lied to everyone about Wilfred receiving a phone call, all the moment the Luna Queen offered them monetary assistance to keep up with this lie."
