Swapped Bride: Awakening of the True Princess novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Throne Room
The guards were closing in when Marit lifted one hand.
"Lords of Lowmarch," she said.
Her voice carried up into the gilded ceiling.
"By your own law, the accused may speak before the king passes sentence. Is that still your law?"
Nobody answered.
A heavy lord with a gray moustache in the front row cleared his throat.
"It is, Highness."
"Then I will speak."
"Silence her," Edric said.
"You wish to hear no evidence, Father?" Marit asked.
"I have a trunk of it."
The guards hesitated.
They looked at their king, and then at the front row of lords, who had all turned to stare at Edric.
It was not much.
It was enough.
Odile opened her satchel.
She drew out a bundle of letters tied in blue ribbon, and her hands did not shake.
"These are in the king's own hand," she said. "I took them from the satchel in the tent the night I ran."
"Casimir carried half of them."
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