My Dreamy Old Husband

Quinton was holding a small baby girl who had just been born; she looked absolutely filthy, and her umbilical cord was still intact.

Quinton pinched the baby girl as though she was a toy and said smugly into the camera, “I have good news and bad news to tell you, Michael.”

Still in a daze, Michael watched the video and stared blankly at the baby girl who was still attached to the umbilical cord.

Is that my daughter?! Sophia has given birth to a daughter for me!

Quinton continued, “The good news is that your wife gave birth at 5.23PM tonight. Congratulations, it’s a girl.”

Shortly after that, he teased in a ghastly voice and said, “Unfortunately, she was not breathing when she was born. Your wife also died of amniotic fluid embolism. I’m currently at a hospital in the small town of Mustka; if you rush over now, you might still be able to see their remains for the last time.”

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At that moment, the core of Michael’s heart ached so much that it closed off all his senses; he didn’t even know how he managed to get into the car. In his mind, the words ‘She was not breathing when she was born’ and ‘Your wife also died of amniotic fluid embolism’ played again and again.

Sophia is dead. My child is dead. They’re dead, all dead…

Joel roared in anger and hatred as they watched Phantom Wolf’s video. They got into the car with bloodshot eyes and drove as fast as they could, ignoring the feeling of exhaustion from their previous days and rushed to Mustka Town.

It was as though a part of Michael had died; he was oblivious to everything that was going on around him. While his entire body froze, he could only hear Stanley yelling at him as he cried, “Pull yourself together, Uncle!”

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received the news, they had already rendezvoused at Mustka Town just after dawn. Meanwhile, Michael finally came back to his senses and followed

people. The group quickly discovered the hospital where Quinton had sent the video from and pushed open the barely held-together gate that had been bombarded by gunfire

at the entrance of the hospital; the air emitted

the hospital. In

about to see as his palms turned sweaty. He even thought

like a trail of breadcrumbs, it led everyone the way to

of the hospital as they investigated the situation,

used coal to cook food. There was an iron pot on the stove. It was covered with a lid as the aroma of meat wafted through the edges, but no

was about to burn out, and only a

mixed in the blood, and there were pieces of bloody clothing with long, black hairs spread messily across the ground.

his breath choked as his eyes stared dully on

clothes… He remembered that Sophia was wearing it in one

Michael froze in place as if there was some strange magic affecting him; an invisible force clutched onto his

 thud, Michael fell to his knees as his hands dropped weakly to his sides; he couldn’t

noticed a bloody ring on the kitchen counter as the large diamond was glittering under

and Sophia was the only one who owned this particular design. Now, the

of soup stewing slowly over the fire. Cold-blooded as he was, it was the first

look, Gary,” said Joel to a young

pot. He fidgeted for a while before finally uncovering the

few seconds, he slammed down the lid as he turned around

the flesh had been stewing into a pot of thick soup, but the tiny skeleton frame inside could be vaguely identified as a woman. A long, empty silence filled the room as everyone looked at