p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Tasha had been on trail for 3 months already. They had tons of evidence against her and Ethan. It turned out she had been planing this for years way before she even met me or Lissa. I guess she was just waiting for the perfect person to take the fall. How ironic. "Queen Vasilisa", called the judge, "Do you have any final statements or questions before we hand convene for a final verdict?" I looked up from my train of thought since I was the main witness I had to sit on the court room floor in the front row while Lissa sat above us all on her thrown. "No. None at this time. You may convene for Mrs. Ozera's final verdict." She stated queenly. With that Lissa got up and the court room emptied. I sat there, still, replaying the last year in my head. How did we not see this coming? How could I have let this happen? Everything just kept replaying. All the memories everything major that has happened to our lives-mine, Lissa, and Christian-in the past year Tasha had been apart of. I don't know how long I sat there or how long the royal families convened for I just looked up and the court room was full again and waiting for Tasha to enter. It felt like an eternity before Tasha entered but once she entered and was seated Lissa spoke, "Judge Badica the verdict please." Court room spokesman stood up and was handed a paper, "We, the 12 royal families, find Natasha Ozera guilty on all counts of murder and all counts of treason." He echoed, " We, the 12 royal families, recommend the sentence of death for Natasha Ozera to the queen." I finally looked at Tasha she looked like she always did that beautiful scar on her cheek and long black hair pulled into a ponytail you could see a few strands of silver in that ponytail. She looked like she always did fierce brave and unmoved about what any royal snob has to say about her. The Court room spokesman spoke again, "Queen Vasilisa your final verdict." I could tell Lissa was shocked she never expected them to sentence her to death maybe life without parole or even life in solitary confinement but never death it never even crossed her mind. She was silent for a second then finally spoke, "I agree", she finally spoke everyone's breath in the room caught, "But not on death. She is guilty no question but she deserves to live with her crimes not die." She paused and thought to herself for a moment then continued, "She will be sentenced to life at Tarasov in solitary confinement with limited human contact and will remain there until she's dies. This my ruling on the matter. I have spoken." With that she stood up and left. I don't blame her I would've done the same thing. It had been hard for hear and I knew she wanted to talk to Christian the moment the verdict came down. They had Tasha stand and started to lead her out the courtroom when all of the sudden she jumped at me and snarled, "This isn't over Rose! This isn't over! I always get what I want!" The guardians escorting her jumped and grabbed her pulling to the back but not before I heard her scream once more, "Always!" It was then that I decided I would leave. I needed to clear my head 8 needed an escape. I didn't even notice where I walked to until I got there. I was at the garage. I grabbed my keys and hopped in my beautiful blue ford mustang. I got to the gate told them I was running an errand and I'll be back with that I slammed the gas and took off. I needed space. Space to do what? I didn't know but staying court had me feeling suffocated. /span/p
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