The last thing Ruelle expected was for her stepmother's voice to ring through the courthouse. She continued to point straight at Ezekiel, and cry,
"Put him behind the bars for killing my husband! He's been trying to kill us all! First my daughter, and now my husband!"
Ruelle's eyes immediately flew to the people gathering around them. Caroline looked from her stepmother to Ezekiel, confusion and disbelief slowly settling across her tired face at her father's news. Her stepmother wasn't trying to convince Caroline but she was trying to separate her from Ezekiel.
And to Ruelle, it felt like the right opportunity. If everyone believed Ezekiel had murdered Harold, no one would pay attention to anything else. Perhaps...Whatever the guard had overheard would disappear beneath this accusation.
