Oliver was a notorious criminal, and he should have been sent directly to the Supreme Court. However, Carissa took a different route. She had him detained at the Capital Guard headquarters, where he was to be interrogated first.
Afterward, she planned to report the matter to Salvador. She would credit Zoey for her tip, and then plead for Caspian and Cedric to be allowed to return to the capital as soon as possible.
Celeste was still detained in the Capital Guard headquarters. If she and Oliver met, it might uncover more secrets-such as just how deeply the Spencer family's collateral branch was involved in this mess. The two prisoners were held in adjacent cells, separated by only a narrow iron bar. When their eyes met for the first time, both faces changed instantly.
On the way here, Oliver kept cursing Zoey for betraying him. But when he saw Celeste, he completely forgot about Zoey. He snarled, his teeth clenched.
"You wretched woman, look at you now! It's true-bad people get what they deserve. This is a great thing to see!"
Celeste's eyes narrowed for a moment before she smirked. "I'm a wretched woman? What about you? If anyone deserves their fate, it's you. Look at where you've ended up locked up just like me."
"Everything's your fault!" Oliver shouted, lunging forward, trying to reach her through the bars. "You got me into this mess!"
Celeste stepped back two paces, her expression one of cold amusement as she watched his angry attempts.
"Pathetic fool!" she spat, the words dripping with contempt.
"You dare mock me? You're the fool!" Oliver's face contorted with rage. "If it weren't for you conspiring with the rebels and tricking me into leaving Southern Frontier, I'd still be the marshal there! I wouldn't have ended up like this!"
Celeste replied coldly, "You're blaming me? Was it really my deceit, or was it your cowardice? You know the truth. You knew from the start that I was only getting close to you for a reason. You thought that if I got pregnant and had your child, I would be bound to you.
"Not every woman is like the ones in your family, who treat children as their whole world. Family ties are the most laughable thing in the world. You thought you could use that foolish idea to trap me? How ridiculous!noveldrama
"Did I not make it clear enough when I left you? You're a middle-aged good-for-nothing with no skills, no talent, and mediocre martial arts You only got the position of marshal because of your noble title. Even if I were blind, I wouldn't have fallen for you!
"You should've realized it was just a transaction from the start, but you still pretended it was something real. You can't even tell the difference between true feelings and fake ones. What use are you? You're trash. Just wait for your beheading!"
Oliver hammered against the iron bars with a fury that seemed to consume him, his voice a low growl. "You wretched woman, I'll kill you! I swear I'll kill you!"
"Do you have what it takes to do it?" Celeste replied coolly. "You wouldn't dare. You're nothing but a coward."
"You dare say that to me?" Oliver's face twisted with rage, his fists tightening around the bars. "Do you want to know how your son died? I snapped his neck-he couldn't even cry! He died, just like that!" "I don't care," Celeste said nonchalantly.
Her attitude completely broke Oliver, as he had hoped to provoke her with that. He howled like a wounded animal, his words a frantic, guttural snarl.
Outside, Carissa listened, her patience never wavering as the conversation unfolded. She turned to the scribe.
"Make a record of this. Write that Oliver planned to abandon his wife and children when he was with Celeste, and that he even wrote a divorce dismissal letter. Later, find a divorce letter and get him to put his fingerprint on it."
All of this needed to be reported to Salvador.
A divorce was not the same as being
cast out. Normally, a divorce was preferred, but this case was different The divorce dismissal letter, which indicated that a wife was to be cast out, would highlight
Oliver's cruelty. It would also garner sympathy for Zoey in the eyes of the common people.
There had already been rumors about this before, and now with Oliver captured and a proper confession,
it was as good as confirmation from the authorities.
It was truly sad for that baby who had died. How innocent had he been? He was simply born into the
wrong family with such cold, selfish, and indifferent parents.
Carissa truly felt for Zoey and her children. If Oliver could treat his son with Celeste this way, he probably hadn't cared much for Zoey's children or the ones born to his concubines.