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Chapter 10
The moment Victor gave the word, the men in black suits slammed the banquet hall doors shut. Within seconds, the room was sealed off, guests surrounded by bodyguards–all armed and ready.
Panic swept through the crowd.
Someone shouted desperately, “Mr. Austin, I swear–we never laid a finger on your granddaughter!”
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In an instant, those who had once insulted me dropped to their knees in terror, slapping themselves in the face.
“We’re sorry, Miss Sinclair! We were wrong! Please, spare us!”
Those young heirs who had once lusted after me were now trembling behind the crowd, pale and speechless.
Then Knox moved.
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No one even saw when the knife appeared in his hand, but it flashed past in a blur, slicing through
the air.
Moments later, a chorus of blood–curdling screams erupted.
The men were clutching their groins, collapsing to the floor in agony.
Knox returned to my side, calmly wiping the blade with a handkerchief. He didn’t even glance at the
chaos behind him.
“Cut their junk off. Send them to Thailand to serve,” he said coldly to one of the guards.
A few elders rushed forward and dropped to their knees in front of Victor, crying,
“Mr. Austin, please! They’re the only sons in our families. You can’t do this!”
Victor simply chuckled, completely at ease, and helped me settle into the high–back chair beside him like we were watching a show.
“My men are a little… unpredictable,” he said with a shrug. “They don’t listen to me much. Maybe try asking him instead?”
The group scrambled to kneel in front of Knox instead.
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But one of them barely had time to speak before Knox grabbed his hand and–snap–severed a finger.
The man let out a scream so shrill it could peel paint off the walls.
“Thailand or…?” Knox asked flatly.
“We’ll go! We’ll go to Thailand!” the others shouted, voices trembling.
Knox still looked unimpressed. “Apologize.”
He tilted his head toward me, adding, “To my lady.”
One by one, the crowd turned back to me, bowing their heads to the floor, voice after voice echoing
across the hall.
“We’re sorry, Miss Sinclair! We were blind–stupid! Please forgive us!”
I stared at them, expressionless, the rising fury in my chest churning into something bitter and
nauseating.
“Get out,” I said coldly.
Vivian stood frozen, trembling where she stood. She turned, her voice shrill with panic.
“Daddy–help me!”
But Richard Monroe shrank back, too afraid to move.
Knox grabbed him by the collar like a sack of trash and dragged him over, dumping him at Victor’s
feet.
Victor’s eyes narrowed, his smile turning razor–sharp.
“You’re the one who threw my daughter and granddaughter out into the cold?”
Richard, once so arrogant and prideful, collapsed into a groveling heap.
“Mr. Austin–I didn’t know she was your daughter! I was seduced, I swear! I always loved
Margaret, she was my one true love!”
He shoved the woman beside him forward like a scapegoat.
I stared down at him, the memories flooding in like a storm.
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My mother’s shattered face the day she caught him cheating.
The night he threw us out into the snow with nothing–not even a coat to keep warm.
The day I walked three hours just to get to his mountain villa because my mother had collapsed, and
I didn’t have money for a cab.
I begged him to help, but he said I was dirtying his floor and had the guards throw me out like
garbage.
Even when she was sick and dying, she still called out for him in her dreams…
A man who had abandoned her, disgraced her, left her to die.
My fury broke loose.
I grabbed the knife from Knox’s hand and drove it straight into Richard Monroe’s chest.
“You deserve to die.”
“You ruined my mother’s life. Now go–go down and beg for her forgiveness.”
Knox blinked, surprised for just a moment.
Then, as if nothing had happened, he calmly reached out and wiped the blood from my fingers.
“Next time,” he said gently, “don’t dirty your hands.”
“That’s what I’m here for.”
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