The Villainess Woke Up Mid-Confession novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Assize
Ravielle sat up on the rug with Kyrian's coat around her.
"My father," she said.
Mirabelle nodded.
"What will he say?"
"The runner didn't know. Only that he's sworn to speak, and he's speaking for the accuser." She hesitated, then held out the candle, as if that would help. "I'm sorry. Truly."
It was the first kind thing she had ever said to Ravielle.
Ravielle took the candle.
"Find me something red, Belle," she said. "I'm not facing him in grey wool."
Mirabelle looked at her for a long moment at the name.
Then she turned and went to find it.
The throne room was full by nine.
They had come to watch the villainess go to the block.
Ravielle stood alone on the open floor, in a red gown of Mirabelle's that was too long for her and pinned up at the hem.
The Emperor sat above her, in black.
On the family bench sat the duchess and Liliane, both straight-backed, both pale.
Liliane's hand was on her silk purse.
High in the gallery, behind the courtiers, a row of women sat in plain black northern wool.
They didn't whisper.
They only watched Ravielle.
"The widows of Wolfsgate," Kyrian had told her in the carriage. "Some of them came south behind my riders. They wanted to see who sold their men."
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