The Mind-Reading Mate Why Is the Lycan King So Obsessed With Me novel Chapter 405

Chapter 405: Rotten Marriage Relationship

Primrose didn’t say a single word during the entire trial. All she did was sit gracefully beside her husband, watching as Arabella finally revealed her true, rotten self beneath that fake, friendly smile.

To be honest, Primrose had always been irritated by the Duchess of Cindralis. Even when Arabella was smiling politely, her thoughts were filled with insults toward both Primrose and Edmund.

Still, since Arabella had never actually voiced her nasty thoughts or done anything openly wrong, Primrose couldn’t act on it, and she couldn’t just slap her in the middle of the tea party for no reason.

Luckily, people with such rotten hearts usually end up doing rotten things. Primrose had also done questionable things in her life, but at least she never hurt innocent people. Arabella, on the other hand, didn’t have even a shred of morality left.

Throughout the trial, Arabella showed no guilt. Instead, she tried to play the victim, claiming to the judge that she knew nothing about her husband’s crimes.

"How dare you accuse me like that?!" shouted the Duke of Cindralis—Frederic—as he pointed a shaking finger at his wife. "You’re the one who forced me to sell our food supplies! You’re the one who told me to rely on the palace because you were so sure Her Majesty would help her dear friend!"

It was no wonder Arabella thought that way. After all, she had been one of the ladies who attended Primrose’s very first tea party, so anyone would assume she had a close relationship with the queen.

Primrose might have considered her a close friend too if only she hadn’t been able to read people’s minds.

She might not have asked Sevrin to investigate Arabella and her husband either if she hadn’t known how rotten the Duchess truly was inside.

In the end, Arabella was simply unlucky. The woman she thought would never become a threat to her future turned out to be the very reason she was now standing trial.

"Your Honor! This whore is the one who ordered me to do all those terrible things!" Frederic shouted. "If you want to punish someone, punish her! She must have bewitched me with dark magic!"

"You fucking bastard!" Arabella shouted back. "Do you think I chained that collar around your neck?! You just wanted to sell the food to earn more profit for yourself! Buying me a wedding ring was nothing but your pathetic excuse!"

To be honest, Arabella was right. Based on his thoughts, Frederic had indeed hidden most of the profits for himself. The ring he gave Arabella wasn’t even expensive... in fact, it was practically fake.

He never asked anyone to mine a real gemstone for his wife’s wedding ring. Instead, he ordered a cheap imitation from a jeweler outside the kingdom and lied to her about it.

Primrose couldn’t bring herself to judge him too harshly. After all, what kind of man would waste money on a wife who’d cheated on him countless times?

However, Frederic was just as rotten as Arabella. He, too, had been unfaithful many times, and his impotence came from a curse placed by a witch he had accidentally impregnated and then abandoned.

No wonder they were both desperate to destroy each other just to save themselves.

"Silence!" the judge finally roared, slamming his gavel several times until the sound echoed throughout the courtroom. "How dare you two defile this sacred court!"

As the judge continued scolding them, Primrose let out a tired sigh and leaned back against her chair.

"Are you bored?" Edmund murmured, noticing that Primrose had sighed several times already.

"Not really," Primrose whispered back. "The trial is actually quite entertaining. I’m just tired of sitting for too long."

Ever since she got pregnant, Edmund had asked the maids to replace all her chairs with ones that had thicker cushions, even her office chair was incredibly comfortable, allowing her to sit for hours without feeling sore.

That was why sitting on a hard wooden bench for more than an hour made her uncomfortable. Her back was starting to ache badly.

"It’ll be over soon," Edmund said softly as he gently rubbed her back, channeling a bit of magic energy to ease her pain. "But if you start feeling nauseous, just tell me right away."

Primrose hummed in response. She did feel nauseous, but not because of her pregnancy, rather, it was from witnessing how disgusting the marriage between the Duke and Duchess truly was.

They had chosen each other as mates, yet even the mate mark wasn’t enough to keep their loyalty intact.

Besides, how could anyone want to cheat on their spouse? Wasn’t it exhausting to juggle romantic relationships with multiple people at once?

Primrose herself had never been involved with another man in her past life, even when her marriage back then was terrible.

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