The Alpha's Exchanged Mate
The Alpha’s Exchanged Mate – Chapter 67

Edwina’s POV…

Maybe she was looking at Alpha Alex or at me, but I am sure she was wondering who was behind the veil. This would have come as a shock to her when she finds out that the Alpha has another Luna, had she figured it out to be me.

“I plead guilty,” she muttered, and another uproar inundated the hall like it was the first time they were hearing about it.

Bunch of hypocrites, we all knew she was guilty; why act surprised, I muttered, and I could see Alex, who sat close to me, smile.

She continued

“And for the charge on crime against throne as an act of treason,” she paused, and I could see her making a last-minute decision, “I plead not guilty,”

More noise saturated the hall.

I nodded my head gently. Even if guilty, one was never to plead guilty to treason, for there would be no use for a trial anymore. They would just pass out a judgment, which we all know the penalty to be death, and that would be it. She knew better.

“Okay, with that being said, we can proceed with the trial. We know you just pleaded guilty to adultery, but it is still essential to carry out a trial on it to know the gravity of the sentence you would receive. Do you understand that?”

She nodded her head slightly, “Yes I understand,” she muttered.

“Also, you only listed one witness here in the person of Edwina Sinclair,”

And yet again, another chattering covered the hall. If not that the podium where she sat was far off from where the crowd was, I am sure she would have picked up lines and knew why they were amazed by this.

“However, the person in question is yet to respond. Would you love to change the name to someone else or leave it?”

The more he spoke, the more the noise increased.

“Can we maintain silence, please? This is a court, and decorum and orderliness are meant to be observed, he stated, and the noise reduced and soon silence was observed once again in the hall.

“We don’t want to be forced to make this a close-door case,” he warned.

“So Miss Sonia Sinclair, would you want to change or leave the name?” He asked again.

“I want to leave the name, hopefully, she would show up before the court’s end,”

There were silent whispers that could be heard, and her last statement broke me. She was still hoping that I would come through for her, I was all that she had, and I knew that right now. My heart began to ache, and because I was caught in a tight corner right now, between facing her and coming through for her, she would hate me for life, she wouldn’t be happy for what I had done to her, and I knew that to be true, there is no way Sonia was going to neglect the fact that I got married to Alpha Alex despite her telling me not to, Sonia has a hard heart, she isn’t as forgiving as I am.

“Okay,” Caleb said. The expression on his face could easily be read if you truly understood him.

“Let us go on then with the case. You are accused of having an affair with Benedict, who was once a Beta of the night howlers. Can you walk us through the version of events and clearly state the timeline of things,”

“Before I do so, I would like to point out that guard,” she said, pointing at a tall, muscular guard to stand at the end of the hall, “is a spy from the sizzlers who was sent here by Ben to spy on us.

And quickly, the guard whom she had pointed out tried to escape the hall but was immediately apprehended by the guards.

The once silent hall was once again filled with so much noise when they brought the guard to the front of the courtroom.

“Search him,” Alpha Alex spoke for the first time since the case started. They began to search this supposed sizzler’s guard and removed all the weapons from his body, nothing out of the ordinary. Did Sonia just accuse an innocent man to make it look like she was on the side of the law? If she just did that, then she is still as evil as I had known her to be.

“I am not a sizzler, I am a proud omega of the night howlers, I swore my allegiance to the throne and to my Alpha Alexander Chase,” the accused soldier cried out. I felt sympathy for him because, at this point, nothing indicated that he wasn’t part of the night howlers.

Caleb walked toward him and glared at him for a few seconds.

“You claim to be an Omega, I know all the omega wolves by name and face, yet I do not know you,”

“Ahhh,” a chorus noise came from the hall.

Was Sonia right? Was this man truly an imposter in disguise and was just trying to spy on us?

“I am an omega,” the man cried out again.

“If you are, prove it to us, show us your omega mark,” Caleb commanded.

The man looked perplexed at this moment,

Then he opened his arms and showed a tattoo of Omega. The noise became noisy at this point in time. I was confused about what was going on and why they were making so much noise.

“Only Sizzlers have the mark of Omega. The night howlers have none,”

And immediately, that man fell to his feet.

“Have mercy on me, I am only but a messenger, I have families, I was only sent to spy, I meant no harm,”

“Take him and lock him up, for him to await trial,” Alpha Alex ordered, and then immediately dragged him from the hall as he cried out for mercy.

Sonia had a little bit of a smile on her face. At that point, I wasn’t sure if this was purely coincidental or part of the plan all along. Was this Ben trying to aid her in her case? At this point, I didn’t know what to think, and I wasn’t sure I fully trusted her words.