Chapter 295. The Contract

CRIMSON

Tedious and unnecessary. That’s what this was. We were waiting on the council to grace us with their presence and the verdict of their vote on Gillian and the supposed crimes she had committed.

Each house's representative cast their vote this morning to determine if Gillian should be held accountable for breaking the blood contract of our marriage. If they found her guilty the lowest punishment would be to have her imprisoned for ‘X' amount of time. Whatever sentence they served her. The highest and most absurd conviction they could give her was the death penalty.

Over my dead body would that happen.

Even if she was sentenced to imprisonment, I had no intention of letting her spend one night in a cell. Tristan and I had already agreed that we would do whatever it took to keep her from seeing the inside of those cold walls.

Including getting her out of Cambiador.

The only reason we were entertaining this shit show of a circus was