We Listened to the Darkness by Sorin Pax 402
402–Backfired Badly
Madeline:
All eyes were fixed Yuvonne now. I could not even express what I was feeling. It did not matter because there was someone else staring at her hard enough to show that he was also upset. That person was none other than Ron.
“What do you have to say about these messages?” Mr. Robinson pressed her.
Tears began to roll down her face as she looked around the room, likely noticing how everyone was watching her with the same expression, a look of disgust and disbelief.
“I admit to sending those messages,” she replied, pausing as the leaders began to shake their heads in disbelief. “But I swear I did not expect it to go that far. Whatever happened to me truly happened. I did not lie about it.”
She let out a small, hopeless cry.
“They were supposed to stop. I understand that I seem like a liar and someone who brought this upon herself, but the truth is much darker. Those men were supposed to stop, but they did not. I became a victim.”
As she cried and spoke about her pain, I looked around and noticed that nobody, not a single person, seemed to show empathy for her except Ron. He carried mixed emotions, and I could only wonder why. 1
Earlier, she had been furious with him and accused him of sending warriors who could not save her.
But now it was revealed that throughout the messages, she was the one who informed the men how to stop them, where to look for the weapons first, and everything else.
“That, however, is not what this case was about.”
Suddenly, Mr. Robinson pulled his hands back, moving away from the topic.
“It was only to show that Luna Yuvonne is capable of twisting narratives,” he remarked.
The leaders began writing something down.
“Now let us talk about your home,” Mr. Robinson continued. “Your home life has been very disturbing. Madeline lived with you. The woman you are supporting right now.”
He questioned her, and she nodded. She could barely turn her head toward me.
“Well then, let’s discuss that,” Mr. Robinson told her with a wide smirk on his lips.
He looked like the kind of man who would quietly kill someone and then attend their funeral to pay respects.
“Can you tell me how much you bullied her?” he asked. “How much pain did you and your family cause her?”
The question made Yuvonne look around in desperation.
“I was just a child back then, and when everything happened, I tried to-” she started, but she could not finish.
Mr. Robinson chuckled.
“Now let’s talk about you defending her,” he continued. “Are you supporting a woman who went rogue because of you in the first place?”
He stated this as he pulled out another receipt.
“These are text emails and messages Yuvonne sent to news outlets, especially Sherry’s channel, to expose Madeline’s background, her secret diary pages, and everything on her wedding day.”
He submitted the files, and I lowered my head. How did I forget about it? How did I forgive her so quickly?
“Like I said, I am a different person now,” Yuvonne muttered.
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She had no more excuses.
My gaze shifted toward Ron. He already looked defeated, and now discovering that his wife had been acting like the same people as Elgin and Graham before marrying him was devastating.
“I am sorry, but what does this have to do with Madeline’s character?” Mr. Henry snapped at Mr. Robinson, though I could tell his words no longer carried much weight.
Mr. Robinson was not finished.
He walked to his table and returned with a plastic bag filled with candies, chocolates, and cookies of different kinds.
“These were taken from Yuvonne’s home yesterday,” he stated. “Her mother was preparing them.”
He leaned forward.
“Care to tell us what these candies and cookies contain, Luna Yuvonne?” Mr. Robinson demanded in a harsh tone.
“I do not know. My mother prepares these,” Yuvonne responded, turning to look at me directly, because I remembered that the same candies had been brought by her for my children.
“So, respected council leaders, these cookies contain poison,” he continued. “A poison that clouds a person’s judgment and convinces them of things that are not real, along with other symptoms and effects that we cannot fully identify.”
As soon as he said that, it struck me. I remembered how she had insisted that my children eat them. Why? What was she trying to do to them?
In the end, it was clear that no one, not a single person in the court was looking at Yuvonne the same way they had before. “And maybe that was how Luna Yuvonne convinced Ron that she was the right woman for him. Maybe he was never in love with her. Maybe she trapped him by feeding him those candies. She spent most of the time cooking in the cabin, did she not?”
As Mr. Robinson continued speaking, I began to feel dizzy, as if I could no longer tell what was true anymore.
“And that is how, when Graham and Elgin arrived that night, Madeline and Baxter had already been fed that poison,” he stated. “They were following Yuvonne’s orders. So yes, in a sense, I must say Madeline is innocent because she did not act on her own. Graham and Elgin are as well, as they are telling the truth from their side.”
As he finished, the entire court erupted in gasps.
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
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