✔The First Female [Taennie Adaption]

17

The trial was held in my training centre. All of the
men who were accused of committing a crime
would be brought in one by one and the royals as
well as myself and Taehyung would have a say in their punishment.

"Are you ready?" I asked Taehyung.

He hadn't come back to my home, but he had shown
up to the trial which made me relax slightly. I was still a little frustrated that he had run away, but overall, I was happy he was here now.

"Yes." He said coldly.

Part of me wanted to lash out at him, to demand
an explanation as to why he thought he could just
abandon me when I needed him. I wanted to tell him
that he had been selfish and ignorant to my feelings,
but I didn't because this was going to be hard for
him and as bad as I thought it was going to hurt me it
was going to damage him much worse. He needed my comfort more than my yelling. So I reached over and carefully laid my hand on his lap, silently calming him.
"Bring in the first prisoner!" The king shouted.
My pack watched in awe. They were all seated on
one side of the training area and the royals, including myself and Taehyung, were on the other side. Some of my pack members jittered with nerves, others couldn't hold eye contact with me anymore and it made my heart drop a little. I didn't want to be sitting so far away from them, so high up on a stage in a plush chair while they all sat on the concrete floor, holding their breath. They were my pack not my slaves. But my thoughts were broken when the first
prisoner was led in by three of my guards.It was a man I had never seen before, but Taehyung instantly tensed beneath my hand. His lip even curled up in a snarl

"Hey, it's okay." I whispered.

Taehyung ignored me and continued to snarl at the
clearly frightened man. I had no idea what the man
had done to Taehyung but I instantly hated him and felt bad for him all at the same time.

The man talked about the part he played in the
kidnapping of the prince, he talked about the many
tasks he had to carry out once the prince was in
custody, and he explained that he was the man who
pulled Taehyung into the car while he was on his run.

"I sentence you to life in prison with no contact with
the outside world, what so ever. I command that you
are removed from your pack completely, and
you are never able to see your mate again!" the king
announced.

"Wait!" I shouted back, watching the man drop to his
knees and sob into his hands, "You're being unfair.
You didn't give Taehyung or myself an opportunity to speak our opinions on the subject." "Fine, you and Thomas are more than welcome to put in your two cents." The king sneered.

Taehyung looked at me, startled by my little outburst but I just nodded in encouragement. "You know what
happened better than anyone else here, what do you
think his sentence should be?"

"Well, Kai, you did a lot of wrong, but you didn't do
anything without it being ordered by your alpha.
You were simply being a good pack member. My
sentence would be three years in a local prison and
occasional visits." Taehyung declared.

The king scoffed, "Three years is hardly anything
for a werewolf."

"I was the one who went through all of the
formenting, I choose the punishments." Taehyung argued. The king opened his mouth like he was about to argue but the queen laid a gentle hand over his own and his mouth snapped shut.

The rest of the trials went quite similarly to this, a
little squabble between Taehyung and his parents but
usually fair sentences were given out to everyone.
no one was going to face more than five years in
prison which warmed my heart. I knew Taehyung had gone through a lot of suffering. I knew he could've been cruel if he wanted to. But the majority of the men who were convicted were simply following the orders of their alpha and didn't need to be punished so harshly.But then Suga came in and the whole trial went sideways.