Chapter 404 Retribution

Natalie stood still, refusing to turn back.

A chilling aura emanated from her, and she said in a voice colder than before, “I’ve said it before. Whatever suffering you all endure is your own retribution!”

Having said that, Natalie continued walking without waiting for Cedric’s response. Cedric remained where he stood, enveloped in an icy coldness.

Natalie’s words echoed relentlessly in his mind, threatening to tear apart his sanity once more.

“Retribution…” He murmured softly, a suffocating feeling gripping his heart.

Retribution?

Was it not enough retribution after they had lost their lives?

Why wasn’t that enough?!

Cedric felt a stifling ache in his chest.

Meanwhile, having retreated inside, Natalie found it hard to regain her composure.

She once never believed in such things, yet here she was.

And then there was Cedric.

Would there be more?

She never imagined that such bizarre things would happen in this world.

The history between Cedric and her seemed fated, from another world to the present.

How could it all truly end?

She looked at her sleeping daughter, gently touching the soft little hand. This child, in this life and the last, felt like a gift from the heavens.

How could she ever…?

night, neither Natalie nor Cedric found sleep easy.

grace during breakfast. Every move she made echoed traces

to your liking?” Cedric asked

him and shook her head slightly.She wasn’t too demanding, but she’d eat it

“Kayla,” Cedric began.

“Yes, Daddy?”

me anything,

she was for her age. She often kept her feelings bottled up, which

“Would you ever reject

felt a pang.

daughter was so sensitive!

that the situation between

Cedric once more, her eyes filled with a pitiful expression… that eerily resembled Isabella’s.

child’s head affectionately as he said, “Of

next moment, Kayla lowered her head and softly

in his

“Kayla…”

said, her

moment, Cedric nearly blurted out that Natalie wasn’t her mother, so

matter!

mother if Natalie wasn’t her

tell that that it was Isabella? But wasn’t she… dead?

Isabella? In her memories, there

end, Cedric couldn’t bear to do that

sad. It’s not that she doesn’t like you.

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her sensitivity surpassing what Cedric had anticipated. “Yes,” he replied. “Okay, hurry and eat.

“Daddy?”

“What is it?”

picked up and dropped off by their mothers,” she

that most children were often picked up or dropped off by their parents during elementary school. Even if they had drivers, their parents usually came along

The discomfort seemed to spread and grow. Finally,

just too busy? Kayla knew Natalie disliked her, so having

was at a loss about how to face Natalie. When he had gone to

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