Chapter 295: Perhaps
Prince Rylen knew this, but he wanted to be a little hopeful that the Royal Family would do what was right and Rose would be treated properly. That she would be given a fair trial and hopefully be acquitted of all the charges. And even if she weren’t, there would still be enough time for the crown prince to wake up and end this.
However, this plan was fully dependent on the crown prince waking up. Rylen didn’t even want to think about what would happen if the crown prince didn’t wake up.
Thomas, however, was bringing something even far more important to his attention—Rose wouldn’t go to trial. She would be killed as soon as she reached the capital.
As soon as the young knight said this, Prince Rylen couldn’t refute it, not with the Queen’s hatred for the young woman. She would be killed, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t keep her here either. Something told him the Queen would send guards to come get her herself. Prince Rylen felt his stomach knot. He didn’t want to throw her to the wolves. That would be a very cruel thing to do. And aside from his morals, Caius would be furious if he found out about this—this was on the hope that Caius would awaken.
Prince Rylen adjusted his coat out of a need for something to do rather than it needing to be adjusted. He didn’t miss that Rose looked from him to Thomas with a scared expression.
She had every right to be scared. He had just brought news that she would be executed and was also telling her to go to the place where she would be killed. It was heartless.
"Prince Rylen," Thomas said, his voice still harsh. "There has to be something we can—"
"There isn’t," Rylen replied and couldn’t even look at Rose.
Rose didn’t know what to think. She kept looking from one of them to the other, hoping they would say something, but the look on Prince Rylen’s face told her he had decided to send her to the castle. Thomas seemed to be against that.
However, Rose knew Prince Rylen’s decision wasn’t without reason, especially since he had stalled this long before telling her in hopes that a better solution would emerge. But that wasn’t going to happen. The crown prince was still unconscious.
Rose didn’t want to think about it, but a part of her worried if the crown prince might actually save her—but she tried to convince herself that he would. There was no reason why he would not.