THE Knight's Hidden Princess

Celeste was never pregnant in the first place, which was what I concluded after all Reagan told me. I had spent the entire night trying to piece everything back together. Reagan had told me Celeste had lost her baby except she couldn’t have because I didn’t go near her and I protected her so she couldn’t have. There was also the fact that Reagan had told me he didn’t have anything to do with her when he found her. He couldn’t bring himself to, but there was one time he had drunk himself to stupor and he couldn’t remember anything else except for the fact that Celeste had woken up right next to him naked and even then, he was still sure nothing had happened.

So all of that could only mean one thing, Celeste had been lying to us all! The truth would be a little bit difficult to prove though, but that was none of my business. What matters is getting through this fucking ridiculous trial Marina had set up for me. I call it ridiculous because that is exactly what it is, it is fucking ridiculous because the whole thing just ends up being in Marina’s favor.

This was exactly what she wanted anyway, a way to trap me, force me into a corner where I had no other defend myself in front of the court. Marina would do anything to humiliate me and it was all so horribly transparent and yet no one seemed to challenge it, no except me and Reagan and it was all thanks to him that this became a private matter instead of round the court like Marina originally wanted it to.

Since the matter had happened in the house, Reagan wanted it to be kept within the house much to Marina’s disappointment. I couldn’t help but smile at the little triumph, no matter how little it was, it was a win anyway and I was going to take it.

I knew what Marina was trying to do with this trial, I knew this wasn’t about a search for justice. This was more about control, a conquest and if only my evil father had been so calm I wouldn’t be stuck here in this mess. But then it’s not like he cared about me in the first place, truth was he never cared about any of us and I knew that but after the person I had seen in Celeste’s room, the one person I didn’t expect it was then I knew that he was nothing but a big son of a bitch. I was going to get to him later but first, I will finish whatever the hell this was.

"So, now that everyone is here, shall we begin?" I heard Reagan’s cool voice and I looked up to see him staring down at me from where he sat on his seat while Celeste sat down beside him preening like a peacock at the fact that she was near him.

The way Reagan stared down at me with so much emptiness in his gaze, there was a time when it would have scared me. But that was before I knew how he felt about me and there was the fact that he had been balls deep inside of me three times during day break before we decided to roll out of bed.

I looked away from him and schooled my expression and my gaze was focused on Marina who was staring directly at me, her lips thinned as she stared at me with an expression that was none other than pure hatred.

I stared at her, not looking away from her and allowing even a flicker of doubt even in my expression. If she wanted to fabricate lies about me, that was fine by me but I’d make damn sure she knew who the hell truly wielded power in this room.