She stopped as she stared at the councilman. It was not someone she knew.. But then she knew no one except Edward who had come to attend her marriage.
"You fool! How could you believe that I would poison her? If I wanted to kill her, I would have used more discreet ways.
The council can not act against me rashly. You all have to pay for it when I will be announced as innocent." she heard her father shouting at the top of his lungs when he stared at the council man with hatred and fury.
His rage could be seen with his red face and the way he was pushing everyone who tried to come closer to him.
His wife was standing in a corner with tears in her eyes but was saying nothing as if she agreed with what Vincent had said of having a guilty conscience while her second brother was trying to put up a fight too while hurling profanities on all of them.
