Lord Dresden took so water and called upon his first witness, Duke Thorin himself.
To the crowd he said, "I call the duke because this conspiracy was brewed long before the crown princess married the crown prince." He looked at the somber faced duke and asked, "Your grace, are you familiar with Lord Oliver Ye?"
"Yes, I am." The duke confird.
"Please elaborate for us how familiar you are with him and any other mber of the Ye house."
Duke Thorin shot Oliver a sharp glare as he replied, "After I returned to the capital permanently, my wife the duchess was approached by her grace Lady Gretchen Ye and she proposed a union of our grandchildren in marriage. To be precise it was, Lady Sigrid, who was not the crown princess at the ti and Lord Oliver Ye."
He confird a rumor that had never been substantiated before.
"Did you agree to the union?" Lord Dresden asked.
The duke nodded. "I rejected it twice initially but they were persistent. I was inford that Lord Oliver held affectionate feelings for the crown princess and he was desperate to marry her. The Ye family offered us two magic stone mines, two estates and one million in gold if we agreed to the marriage."
The crowd was set ablaze once again, both in the courtroom and outside they roared with surprise. It was quite the price to pay for a bride.
Lord Dresden put his hands behind his back and shook his head. "What an offer!! My, my, Lord Oliver was truly in love."
Roland was not very pleased to hear about another man being so much in love with his wife that he offered such a vast fortune. He wondered if maybe that was the reason behind the murder of his child. Oliver Ye was jealous.
Lord Dresden touched the table and raised a piece of paper. "Ladies and gentlen, this is my first evidence, a letter of agreent between the Thorin’s and the Ye’s to a betrothal." He put it down and continued. "The marriage did not hold however, can you share the reason why with the rest of us?"
Duke Thorin raised his head and replied, "My granddaughter and the crown prince had t before at the Eastern boarder and she held so affection for him. Similarly, the crown prince had an interest in her but he was not ready to settle down. At the ti, the marriage age restriction on won was still applicable and my granddaughter was about to reach the age limit. We could no longer wait for the crown prince to make up his mind about marriage.
When the king heard that Sigrid’s marriage was about to be decided however, he intervened and stopped us from separating two people that liked each other. He decided that they should wed whether the crown prince was ready or not. It was his belief that they would be happy together. I ended the betrothal and compensated the Ye family with thirty thousand silver."
"And how was this rejection taken?" Lord Dresden asked.
"Not well." The duke confird. Looking at Oliver he added, "After the king’s marriage decree was made public, Lord Oliver Ye showed up at our estate in the company of one of Sigrid’s friends at the ti. They attempted to poison her with a aphrodisiac. I believe that Lord Oliver Ye wanted to ruin her innocence and put a stop to the royal wedding."
Lord Dresden nearly shot off like an excited firework and all over Eldoria, the reaction in the courtroom was no different. This trial had it all, love, betrayal, murder, attempted sexual assault!! The reporter for the daily paper could hardly hold his quill steadily.
The king unleashed his sword and it was his advisor and Elarin that stopped him from beheading Oliver Ye right where he stood.
As for Oliver, he was in shock because he never thought sothing that happened many months ago would co back to haunt him. like this.
In reality, even the Thorin’s who knew about that event had not been expecting it to co up.They wondered if Sigrid had long predicted it and maybe that was why she kept Rosalind alive back then.
"Thank your grace." Lord Dresden sent the duke down. "I would like to call the next witness to prove the conspiracy, miss Rosalind."
Rosalind was brought into the courtroom by a red knight and put in the seat where the duke had been. Lord Dresden did not waste ti in questioning her as he could tell that everyone was eager to know more about the aphrodisiac and what followed.
"Miss Rosalind, you have been identified as the culprit that assisted Mr. Oliver Ye in the attempted drugging of the crown princess. Do you admit to this?"
Rosalind briefly glanced at Sigrid and lowered her head, when she raised it again there tears in her eyes. After nearly half a year of hard work at the Thorin estate in the plantation, her temper had been filed down. Her family wanted nothing to do with her and she was pregnant.
Her husband worked for the Thorin’s, and he did not maltreat her. The life she was living now was not the one she imagined before but it was better than the one she lived with her family. Her good days would only last if she picked the right side.
She decided to tell the truth. "It was not , it was Lord Oliver. In the past, the crown princess used to treat as her friend, she used to share the good things she had with . Over ti, I lost my mind in the desire to be like her.
I grew jealous of her fortune and life. When her marriage to the crown prince was announced, I was filled with envy so I went to tavern and got a little drunk. Mr. Oliver found there, he acted real nice and kind and then he poisoned my mind with lies about the crown princess. He said that they were in love and the King was trying to break them apart using his power.
He begged to help them and promised to make his secondary wife if I helped him and the crown princess be together. I was a fool, excited by the thought of marrying a noble man so I agreed to his plan. Mr. Oliver handed the aphrodisiac, he said that as long as the crown princess lost her purity, the crown prince would not want her.
That as long as the two of them were caught dallying in bed, the Thorin’s would have no choice but to marry the crown princess to him."
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