Calisto stated.
“Cry, bitch,” I replied.
She frowned. “Odin, you are seriously proving to be a disappointment. Elena would have never given in to Lincoln and his kooky demands.”
“His demands are fair,” Odin said. “Your hand-picked jury agreed to them.”
Calisto sighed. “You’re all a disappointment. Seriously people, sometimes the only way to get the results you want is to cross that line, the one you’re all pussyfooting around.”
Odin shook his head. “A deal was made. A verdict was reached. We will remove the civilian’s tongue and that will be the end of it. Hence forth, she will be under my protection to ensure no harm comes to her, for as long as I’m still breathing.”
Odin tilted towards two large men in owl masks, who acknowledged him and gently lifted Karina up off the ground.
I looked into her fierce eyes and then mouthed the words, “I’m sorry,” to her.
She nodded, knowing full well how I felt. She then turned to the men and waited for her cruel punishment for falling in love with me all those years ago.
If Karina was afraid, she didn’t show any signs of it.
As they led her away from the court room, Calisto couldn’t hide the look of disgust on her face.
“I swear, there are more strong-willed nerves on the tip of my clit than there are on the whole lot of you combined,” she snapped, before casting her eyes back to Odin. “Honorable judge,” she said with sarcasm, “What are the remaining charges?”
Odin lifted up a piece of parchment paper and cleared his throat. “Lincoln Richards is further charged with murder, conspiracy, lying, fraud, extortion, theft, and…” Odin paused on the last charge, “depraved hedonism?” He looked up at me. “How does the defendant plead to the remaining charges?”
I shrugged. “Well there’s no point defending myself now. I guess I have no other choice but to plead guilty or perhaps make a plea of insanity. That usually gets people off the hook, doesn’t it?”
Odin shook his head. “Do you accept all these charges and the punishments that come with them?”
Before I was able to reply, Calisto cut me off.
“I think we’ve come to an impasse on this trial,” she said. “Clearly you bunch of pansies aren’t going to inflict the type of punishment Lincoln so very well deserves.”
Odin tried to reason with her. “Calisto, if you would…”
She was quick to cut him off. “I don’t want to hear it. Despite this entire trial being my idea, it’s clearly not moving according to the original plan. You all have hearts as soft as soggy waffles.”
Classic Calisto—she always needed to get her way.
“What you all don’t know is that for the past week, I’ve been in communication with Yuen Xi, father of Elena Zhang, the warlord of Asia.”
Did she just say Yuen Xi? That was bad news. When it came to ruthlessness, very few men could compare to the old dragon. His methods of inflicting torture on his enemies were infamous. Stories were told that scared off not only children, but adults as well. In terms of being a complete psychopath, he was just one tiny step shy of Calisto.
His one saving grace was that he loved his family, none more so than his only child, Elena. Her death would not sit well with him.
Calisto walked over to me and lifted my chin with the tip of her fingers. “You’ve been naughty, haven’t you, Lincoln.”
I raised a brow. What the hell was she doing?
“You see, we have hard evidence that it was you who ordered the hit on Elena Zhang. You were the one directly responsible for her murder. And you killed her without my poor brother knowing anything about it.”
Now THAT was just about the craziest lie I’ve ever heard.
“No, I think you must have me mistaken for someone else,” I said.
“Don’t lie to me, Lincoln.”
So that was Calisto’s game plan all along. She was afraid of Yuen Xi, though I couldn’t blame her. The fact that his only daughter died while acting as
“Cry, bitch,” I replied.
She frowned. “Odin, you are seriously proving to be a disappointment. Elena would have never given in to Lincoln and his kooky demands.”
“His demands are fair,” Odin said. “Your hand-picked jury agreed to them.”
Calisto sighed. “You’re all a disappointment. Seriously people, sometimes the only way to get the results you want is to cross that line, the one you’re all pussyfooting around.”
Odin shook his head. “A deal was made. A verdict was reached. We will remove the civilian’s tongue and that will be the end of it. Hence forth, she will be under my protection to ensure no harm comes to her, for as long as I’m still breathing.”
Odin tilted towards two large men in owl masks, who acknowledged him and gently lifted Karina up off the ground.
I looked into her fierce eyes and then mouthed the words, “I’m sorry,” to her.
She nodded, knowing full well how I felt. She then turned to the men and waited for her cruel punishment for falling in love with me all those years ago.
If Karina was afraid, she didn’t show any signs of it.
As they led her away from the court room, Calisto couldn’t hide the look of disgust on her face.
“I swear, there are more strong-willed nerves on the tip of my clit than there are on the whole lot of you combined,” she snapped, before casting her eyes back to Odin. “Honorable judge,” she said with sarcasm, “What are the remaining charges?”
Odin lifted up a piece of parchment paper and cleared his throat. “Lincoln Richards is further charged with murder, conspiracy, lying, fraud, extortion, theft, and…” Odin paused on the last charge, “depraved hedonism?” He looked up at me. “How does the defendant plead to the remaining charges?”
I shrugged. “Well there’s no point defending myself now. I guess I have no other choice but to plead guilty or perhaps make a plea of insanity. That usually gets people off the hook, doesn’t it?”
Odin shook his head. “Do you accept all these charges and the punishments that come with them?”
Before I was able to reply, Calisto cut me off.
“I think we’ve come to an impasse on this trial,” she said. “Clearly you bunch of pansies aren’t going to inflict the type of punishment Lincoln so very well deserves.”
Odin tried to reason with her. “Calisto, if you would…”
She was quick to cut him off. “I don’t want to hear it. Despite this entire trial being my idea, it’s clearly not moving according to the original plan. You all have hearts as soft as soggy waffles.”
Classic Calisto—she always needed to get her way.
“What you all don’t know is that for the past week, I’ve been in communication with Yuen Xi, father of Elena Zhang, the warlord of Asia.”
Did she just say Yuen Xi? That was bad news. When it came to ruthlessness, very few men could compare to the old dragon. His methods of inflicting torture on his enemies were infamous. Stories were told that scared off not only children, but adults as well. In terms of being a complete psychopath, he was just one tiny step shy of Calisto.
His one saving grace was that he loved his family, none more so than his only child, Elena. Her death would not sit well with him.
Calisto walked over to me and lifted my chin with the tip of her fingers. “You’ve been naughty, haven’t you, Lincoln.”
I raised a brow. What the hell was she doing?
“You see, we have hard evidence that it was you who ordered the hit on Elena Zhang. You were the one directly responsible for her murder. And you killed her without my poor brother knowing anything about it.”
Now THAT was just about the craziest lie I’ve ever heard.
“No, I think you must have me mistaken for someone else,” I said.
“Don’t lie to me, Lincoln.”
So that was Calisto’s game plan all along. She was afraid of Yuen Xi, though I couldn’t blame her. The fact that his only daughter died while acting as
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