Peace Offering To The Cursed Prince

"That is a lie," princess Ema was scared, she did not know that she will expose herself like this.

"You know very well I am telling the truth, when Ellen fell into the water and almost drowned no one asked you any questions. Everyone believes it was an accident, even when I had my doubt I kept it to myself. So tell me why else will you think I will push you off the stairs to average Ellen unless your conscience was fighting you?" Richard asked.

He believes that princess Ema was not just trying to accuse him falsely. If that was the case she would not have been so confident when she answered the king's question. So this only meant one thing to him, she had deliberately made a move to hurt Ellen.

"That is not true, stop accusing me falsely," princess Ema knew she could never accept attempting to murder her sister, if the king finds out about her motifs she might be exiled from the kingdom.

"As if I will believe you, any way you can deny all you want but your conscience will continue to judge you. You will know no peace," Richard was so angry. If only this had happened in Avalo he was sure that king Sebastian will seek Justice for his sister, as for king George, he knew that without evidence he will turn blind eyes.

"Why? You must be doing this to take revenge. I admit I was wrong to have accused you but I swear someone pushed me down the stairs, I only thought it was you because the person mentioned what happened back in Avalo. And you are the only one in the palace who can blame me for sister's accident," princess Ema started crying.

She was scared that the king will believe Richard's words. All she wanted to do was defend herself and end the matter quickly.

"Your Majesty, Richard want to push my daughter to her death, someone must have pushed Ema down pretending to be Richard in other to sow discord among the children. I'm a is still sick she can not go through a lot of emotional stress," lady Regina came to her daughter's Rescue.

She could guess that indeed her daughter might have done something to Ellen, so she wanted to do something to end the convention.

"Push her to death? Who was the person that made his Majesty promise to chop me into pieces a few minutes ago? After accessing me falsely you want to pretend as nothing happened," Richard was annoyed. This mother and daughter did not know when to give up, Ellen almost lost her life.

"Stop talking nonsense, Ema hit her head had from the fall, it is possible for her to remember things wrongly. You said it yourself that Ellen's fall was an accident," lady Regina argued. Even if she was not present she could easily change the narrative from what she had learned from Richard and Ema. 

"Oh so now you realize she hit her head and might remember things wrongly? When you came pointing accusing fingers at my son, why did you not think of this?" Ann could no longer stay quiet.

Judging from the way the mother and daughter were acting she could tell that Ema was not innocent.

"It was my fault, I apologize. Next time I will verify the facts before pointing figures," lady Regina could only accept her mistake.

All she wanted to do was have these people leave the room before the king will suspect anything 

"If the king has not been with Richard and he was killed would your apology has brought him back?" Ann refused to accept this kind of false apology.

"I... I already accepted my mistake, As a mother, I was carried away by my emotions. You should know how a mother feels when their child is in trouble, oh I forgot, you may not understand," Lady Regina shook her head.

She acted pitifully but in the real sense, she was only mocking Ann for not having her own child.

"You..." Ann was so angry that she did not know what to say. Even Richard was stunned, he knew that this will be a sour spot for Ann, even if she has been the mother he knew all his life, it did not change the fact that she was not his birth mother.

"Ahh! You should be ashamed of yourself, even a woman who can not give birth knows how to show a child love? Have you not failed as a mother, your daughter tried to murder her sister. You are a shame to motherhood," Richard replied.

He knew that even if he tried to comfort Ann at this moment, it will only hurt her more, so he verbally attack Regina instead.

"You... How dare you call my daughter such names, she has not done anything wrong," lady Regina was so angry she did not expect Richard to give her such a reply.

"Falsely? We both know that I am telling the truth. So what if I falsely accused her, are the both of you any different," Richard did not back down.

"That's enough, Richard you said it yourself it was an accident," King George could no longer listen. He was afraid of finding out the truth. He did not want to know that the little girl he has shown so much love had so much hatred in her.

When Ann heard this, she looked at the king, since the person who was looking at him at that moment was Agatha, she was disappointed. Her heartache seeing that he refused to see the truth in front of his eyes.

Ema once again tried to hurt their daughter but like in the past, King George chooses to turn a blind eye.

Even Richard was shocked, he expected his father to at least find out what happened, after all when Princess Ema had accused him, even when he knew it was impossible, he still came all the way from the dining hall to verify.

"Father..." Richard could not swallow his disappointment. He wanted to make him see reasons but King George did not give him a chance.

"You are only guessing, you do not have any evidence," After saying this king George turned ready to leave.

"Your Majesty," Ann stopped the king who was about to leave the room.