(Luna Jane POV)
The poisoning accusation caused quite the commotion. Your father, Margie, and Robert all came over to see what was going on and support me.
At that point, I was in a horrible position. If I admitted that I had tried to drug Cecilia, it would have brought tremendous shame to your father and to our pack. In addition, because we were in another pack's territory and the Werewolf Council was present, I most likely would have been subject to very severe punishment.
I paused to take a deep breath and wipe more of my tears from my face.
"What did you do next, Mother?" Kael asked. I could tell that he was trying to be gentle with me, but he was also becoming more and more afraid of the direction this story was going.
I looked down at my hands, then resumed the story in a whisper.
"I did not know what to do, and I was panicking. I decided to do the only thing I could think of, which was to adamantly deny putting anything in the strawberries.
