Tempting the Wrong Prince
Today, the court would decide what would become of my parents.
Every sentence from the broadcasters scraped at my nerves. The charges were recounted again and again, as though repetition made them truer. The assassination plot. The betrayal. The whispers of mutiny. Their voices were clinical, professional, yet each word carried the weight of a noose tightening around my father’s neck.
And threaded between all of it, me. My name. My transgressions.
“…and of course, we must address the scandal that has shaken the monarchy itself. Lady Cassandra, estranged wife of Crown Prince Richard, is confirmed to be in the residence of his older brother, Prince Arden…”