Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 171: T-treason?!

Chapter 171: T-treason?!

Claire was about to run for the fear of her head being served to animals. But then the moment she turned to reach for the door, the door swung open with a loud bang. And the royal guards burst forth inside the room led by none other than Ara herself.

As if that wasn’t enough, a large amount of crowd had followed the guards to the guests room out of curiosity of who they were here to arrest. The guests at the banquet all stood outside the door peeking inside the room to see who was there.

Ara observed Hamon then shifted her gaze to Claire. She breathed a sigh of relief seeing nothing had already happened before she got here, but then she didn’t miss the murderous expression Hamon had on. She then turned to the guards and ordered, "Take this woman away!"

Claire’s eyes widened at the order, "What the hell are you trying to do?" She questioned as she took small steps backwards away from the guards.

"If you know what’s good for you, lady Tudor. Shut that pretty mouth of yours and follow them quietly." Ara warned calmly, masking her flooding anger for the lady.

Instead of doing as Ara instructed, Claire’s eyes flamed up as she violently rushed to attack Ara, with a crazy scream she tried to pull Ara’s hair, but Ara was faster and stronger than her, she swiftly moved aside and caught Claire’s arm, twisting it behind her back until she cried out, "Ahh! You bitch! Let me go right now. I will ruin your face!" She struggled to wiggle out of Ara’s tight grip, but to no avail. Since her plot had failed and everything had come tumbling down, Claire no longer cared about her appearance or reputation at the moment, her hatred for Ara flooded her senses and the only thing she wanted to do right now was destroy the pretty face that was the cause of her problems and upcoming downfall.

"This is another crime, attacking the crown princess, lady Tudor, did you not know that? This will multiply the punishment for your crimes a ten fold." Ara stated then turned to signal the guards, they rushed over and grabbed Claire by both her arms. One of the guards also took the glass of juice with him.

Claire began yelling like a crazy person, "Let go of my arms, You pieces of garbage! Do you know who I am?!" She threatened the guards then turned to Ara, "And you bitch, it’s not over yet! I will distory you!"

Ara stared coldly at Claire and replied with a steel-hard voice, "Let’s see how you will do that when you will spend the rest of your days in the dark room. You’ve gone too far in drugging His Highness’s drink. For doing something like this, you might be charged with attempted murder on the crown Prince. You’ve committed treason, lady Tudor!"

"T-treason?" Claire’s eyes widened in shock. The crime of treason against the royal family wasn’t something to be trifled with, for the lightest punishment, she could either be banished from Findara forever or worse killed along with every single bloodline of the Tudor. Claire shuddered in fright, She’d simply used aphrodisiac in the drink. How was it treason?! However, even if it was revealed that she had no intentions of murder or treason, her reputation and her family’s would be destroyed forever...

And it was all because of Ara!

Claire glared at Ara, "What sort of rubbish are you trying to say? I have no intentions to kill His Highness. All I did was..." She was unable to complete her words.

Ara then said firmly, "Whatever your intentions are, just by trying to secretly drug the crown Prince’s drink is enough to charge you of murder, lady Tudor."

"No! You liar! All I did was add an aphrodisiac to it. How will you charge me of murder?!" She exclaimed before even realizing she’d exposed herself. But then, she didn’t careless now that things had gone out of hand.

The onlookers standing outside the door began to whisper among themselves after her startling confession.

"Oh my goodness! Lady Tudor has gone too far this time. Did you hear what she said?"

"She should be locked in the dark room forever for committing such a crime. Anyway, she’s so rude and arrogant. It would teach her a great lesson. Serves her right."

"Yes, I never really liked her, and now she dares tried to feed His Highness an aphrodisiac? Tsk, the dark room is not enough for a punishment."

Whatever the context, this was pure entertainment for all the onlookers. The social circle would surely be washed with gossip of this by tomorrow.

Claire’s eyes quickly darted frantically around the room until it met the crown Prince’s cold eyes, she spoke in a hurry, "Your Highness, I didn’t mean to do it...I was only doing what I was ordered to do, believe me, please. Don’t let them lock me up in the dark room! I really was asked to_"

"By who?" Ara cut her off, and Claire’s eyes shifted back to her with a glare before answering, "It was Eleanora who drugged the juice, she asked me to bring it to His Highness or else...She’d ruin my name in society_"

Before Claire could finish her lie, Eleanora stepped inside the room, "That’s a lie, Claire!"

Claire looked towards her friend with a warning glare for her to cooperate, she didn’t care about anything now, she was willing to just find a scapegoat to take the blame for her, and who was best to implicate but the foolish Eleanora who would follow her around like a dummy, but before she could retort to defend herself again, Ara added,

"Yes, but it was lady Eleanora who informed me about your plans, how could she have been the mastermind? Stop trying to place the blame on others lady Tudor, just obediently accept the punishment."

Claire’s eyes widened in shock then turned to anger, "Y-you betrayed me." She couldn’t understand why her friend would sell her out to her enemy. Claire thought, forgetting the fact that she’d also tried to frame Eleanora a moment ago to save herself.

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