Chapter 220
He personally sent the women he had once slept with all met tragic ends to the lowest level of Night Moon, where they could be slept with for just one dollars, forced to service over a hundred clients a day.
Of the original thirty–eight, only ten remained. The rest had died from sexually transmitted diseases.”
As for the three maids, when it was revealed that the man who had slept with them was just a crippled beggar, they went completely mad.
He then fed them directly to the deep lake behind the Alcott Family’s estate.
The three of them didn’t even have time to scream before they were gone.”
Within a month, two minor families vanished from Junaria.}
Aveline, trying to flatter and appease him, tentatively asked about the whereabouts of her own parents./
The next day, she saw a blood–soaked human tongue placed right on the dining table.”
“If you want to know where they are,” Thayer said calmly, “then ask them yourself.”
He ate his meal unhurriedly, but his eyes were filled with red–his whole being was like a tightly stretched string, ready to snap at the slightest touch.
Aveline was terrified, yet deep inside, she felt a twisted sense of satisfaction. She knew that I was now discussing an engagement with Lucien.
The monster in front of her, wearing human skin, would lurk like filthy trash in the shadows, spying on the couple–then retreat to the bathroom in their wedding suite to vomit all night.
He couldn’t even throw up bile anymore–only red blood came out.”
‘Die! Thayer, just die!‘
Aveline wished it with all the malice in her heart. But what she didn’t expect was that the first to die would be herself.”
Around July or August of her pregnancy, Thayer appeared in her room like a ghost. He grabbed her by the hair and dragged her straight to a hospital owned by the Alcott Family.
“Just dissect her. No anesthesia.”
Aveline’s eyes widened in horror, but Thayer seemed to regain his usual gentleness and patience with her.”
“Aveline, do you know where this is? This is the place where you pulled out Althea’s mom’s oxygen tube. You’re going to die in this very room too–does that make you happy?“}
Aveline struggled to understand, but the man raised his hand and pinned her down. A white pillow was pressed over her mouth and nose and in the repeated suffocation, the woman finally bled to death.
The doctor, hands trembling, performed a cesarean and pulled out a blood–covered infant. Watching as Thayer’s fingers tightened around the baby’s neck, the child finally let out a pained cry. Only then did he raise an eyebrow and loosen his grip.}
“Send him to that old bastard Harvant.”
Throwing down those words, the man walked out of the hospital.
Disappearing along with him were Lucien and me.>
In the car speeding along the mountain road, my wary gaze pierced him, making him tremble slightly. Still, he forced a smile.} “Althea, you’ll be free of me very soon. Aren’t you happy?”
My eyes were cold and sharp as I speculated about all the possible outcomes.
“Thayer, if it’s my skills you want, I can give them to you right now. But don’t touch Lucien.“}
Lucien’s voice rose even louder. “I can give everything under my name in the Merrick Family to you–just don’t hurt Althea!”
The two of us looked like a pair of star–crossed lovers. Even though I hadn’t fallen for Lucien yet, I was already protecting him.”
Thayer felt as if someone had poured sulfuric acid into his heart. It sizzled and smoked with venomous pain so intense that he couldn’t even force a smile.
‘Why is it that after decades of being childhood sweethearts with her, we ended up as strangers who can’t even recognize each other? And yet this thief–who has only known Althea for a few short years–is already someone she protect so fiercely.’§
‘Why! Why! Why!‘
Thayer screamed the questions in his heart, driven to madness, yet on the surface, he wore a gentle expression.§
He couldn’t afford to anger me anymore. This was the final stretch of the road–he just wanted to have a proper conversation with me.
