Chapter 227: UNVEILING BETRAYAL

Nixx   “You jerk!” Annabel shouted, her voice cracking as she slapped him hard across the face. “You knew about this all along? And you never bothered to tell me? Now you expect me to believe that my son might face trial and possibly the death penalty because of it?”   William stood up, his face flushed from the sting of her slap. He gripped her wrists, his frustration boiling over. “And what do you think you would have done, huh, Penny? It would have been devastating for you, just like it was for me! Discovering that my own son was capable of such heinous acts? You wouldn’t have said a word, out of fear that he would face the death penalty!” His voice was raw with emotion as Annabel crumbled into his arms, her tears soaking into his shirt. He wrapped his arms around her, his wolf’s instinct to comfort her mirroring the way my father had held my mother.   “Hey, Annabel,” Mirabelle said softly, her tone soothing despite the gravity of her words. “You unknowingly aided Darius in his esca