"And now we wait" I heard Adam say after he closed the door behind himself, Belle, Evie, Jay and Carlos. As they all took to their seats I couldn't help but note how nervous and anxious they all were, which was very understandable. We all wanted this trial over and done with, and unfortunately for us we didn't know how long it was going to take for the jury to come to their decision.

"Yeah" I heard Jay say. "This is going to drag" he sighed as he put his head into his hands.

"Yes," Belle stated. "But at least we are at this point, I'd rather be at this point of the trial then restarting it now" she added.

"Well we were actually talking about that-" Ben started. "If we get a hung jury, we would have to go to retrial," he said sadly. "With a different jury" he interjected.

"The amount of evidence that has been put forward is outstanding" Jay told us as he looked over to us fondly.

"I know that-" I started. "I guess-" I added. "I don't think I am going to be able to calm myself down until this is all over" I admitted to the room.

"I get that Sis" Carlos meekly smiled over to me. The room then fell into silence as we all nervously tried to settle down, Gareth told me and Ben that it could take days, even a week to make their decision. Of course I didn't want them to rush their decision; this was a very important decision - one that I really needed them to think about, for the sake of my family.


We sat and talked aimlessly amongst ourselves, obviously trying to distract ourselves from the current situation that we found ourselves in. There were even points where we sat in silence as either Adam or Ben paced nervously around the room. Ben however only paced a couple of times and when he did he wasn't doing it for very long before he sat back next to me and pulled me into a tight hug. He rocked us both slightly as he held me tightly, every now and against pressing a kiss against the top of my head. I guess this was more for Ben than it was for me, but being in his arms always calmed me down. But in this very moment I knew that Ben needed to hold me, and this was something that I was very happy to let him do.


Lunch time and hours had past and given by the fact that it was getting close to five o'clock told me that it wasn't going to be long before we were going to have to go home. I felt my stomach burn in anxiousness at the unknown that lay before us all, I hated not knowing what was about to happen! But I had to work on keeping my nerves at bay, as Ben and the rest of our family kept telling me that stress wasn't good for me. I knew that 'and the baby' was meant to be added to that sentence but we all had an unsaid understanding not to mention the baby as we didn't want the news to get out sooner than it needed to.

I was currently standing looking out of one of the windows trying to mentally prepare myself for both eventualities; and I heard the door open and I slowly turned around to see Gareth walk into the room, closing the door behind him.

"Gareth?" Ben said slowly as he pulled one brow up in confusion.

"Your Majesty" Gareth stated as he stood in front of the unlit fire. "Mrs Adams," he added as I walked up to Ben, who was standing behind one of the couches in the room. "And family" he smiled as he looked around the room.

"Is everything ok?" Adam questioned for the room.

"I don't know," he admitted. "Hopefully yes" he smiled meekly.

"What's going on Gareth?" Belle questioned, and we all watched as he took a couple of deep breaths to steady himself.

"The verdict is in," he admitted. "The jury is ready," he confirmed.

"What?" we all gasped. I really didn't know how to feel about this! Of course I wanted to know the outcome of this trial, but I couldn't tell whether this was a good or a bad sign at the fact that the jury came back with a verdict after a few hours of deliberating.

"Isn't this too soon?" I questioned for the room, breaking the silence.

"This can't be good" I heard Ben mutter and he started to take quick breaths as he started to fall into panic.

"Hey" I cooed as I reached up and cupped his face with both of my hands. "Whatever the verdict we will get through this together" I told him as I gazed into his eyes as his arms wrapped around my waist.

"Together" he meekly smiled at me, before pulling me into a hug. As I cuddled into my husband's chest I couldn't lie to myself and say that I wasn't concerned because I was. I only hoped that the quick verdict was down to the amount of evidence that we had against them; and not because they believed the lies that their lawyers had put forward. And there was only one way to find out!