The Girl He Sold Returned As The King’s Mate Chapter 18
Her engagement to Adrian was, of course, dissolved.
She argued that she had not participated in the original crime.
The judge acknowledged that, so she was not convicted of human trafficking.
But four years ago, she had been an adult.
She could have contacted the Royal Guard. She could have helped search for me. Instead, she paid off witnesses and ordered her assistant to delete evidence.
She wasn’t being punished for how she was born, or for wanting her father’s approval.
She was being punished because she knew her comfortable life was built on someone else’s suffering, and she chose to keep the truth buried.
After hearing her sentence, she kept asking Daniel if she could still come home after she served her time.
Daniel didn’t answer.
He, too, was held accountable by the Royal Council.
After Peter’s leg was broken, he had managed to get a message to the Hawthorne family’s front security desk.
The message said that Adrian Cole might know where Evelyn really was.
The manager on duty had passed the information to Daniel.
But Daniel had dismissed it, assuming Peter was just a disgruntled ex-employee lashing out at the Cole family. He refused to let a low-level driver damage the long-standing relationship between two prominent families.Â