Chapter 199 - Ch. 199 There's No Need To Be Bitter (2) (1/2)

Carlisle reluctantly parted from Elena after she went to bed for a nap. There was an important matter from Zenard he needed to attend to.

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Carlisle’s steady gait seemed to bear more purposeful authority as he headed towards the dungeon. When he arrived, he found Zenard waiting for him at the front of a cell with thick iron bars. Zenard gave a deep bow as he approached.

“Welcome, Your Highness.”

“You didn’t touch a hair on him like I ordered?”

“Yes. I brought him in good condition.”

“Very well.”

After the brief exchange, Carlisle entered the cell to see Oswald Selby, who was tied up in chains.

When it was discovered that Marquis Selby was behind the prince’s assassination attempt, the marquis immediately tried to flee the country. It was Carlisle’s men that caught him and brought him back to the palace.

As soon as Oswald saw Carlisle enter the cell, he looked up with a pitiful expression.

“Y-Your Majesty, I’m not the culprit. You know I’m not. Looking back now, I was only blinded because my daughter was in danger. I’ll testify before everyone. So please, please…spare my life.”

Carlisle was unmoved by Oswald’s desperate begging.

“Your Highness, believe me. It was the Empress. The cunning woman tricked me into trying to kill you.”

Even with his confession, Carlisle only listened on with apparent disinterest. Oswald paused in a brief moment of confusion, and it was then that Carlisle spoke.

“Are you done with your final words?”

“Y-Your Highness!”

Oswald’s eyes flew open in fear, but Carlisle had no intention to entertain him anymore.

“Do you want me to tell you something? The official report says that you’re still on the run. No one knows you’re being held in this dungeon, and you will not be brought for trial.”

“W-what…?”

Oswald had assumed that Carlisle’s face was smoothly expressionless, but when he took a closer look, he found he was wrong.

Carlisle had a look of terrible rage.

Oswald recoiled in fear as the prince slowly began to approach him. He was so terrified that he couldn’t even move his mouth to speak.

“And your testimony? I don’t need that.”

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Carlisle came one step closer.

“Even without it, I have plenty of bait to catch the Empress.”

The distance between them closed with every word.