Yancy had defied him and delivered the child, causing his carefully laid out plan to fall apart. Hence, Federick was rather infuriated.

Frederick left. Not long after, Karl arrived.

“Mr. Hayes.”

“Where is she?” he demanded, the most pressing matter heavy on his mind.

Karl lowered his head slowly.

Sebastian felt something had ripped his chest open, leaving behind a massive hole where his heart used to be. He began coughing violently like he was exposed to a chilly gust of wind.

 

“Mr. Hayes, are you okay?” Karl asked urgently as Sebastian’s hacking coughs grew louder and more intense.

Bent double from pain, his veins throbbed in exertion as his handsome features were contorted in pain. Like a fish out of water, he gasped for air, being completely devoid of oxygen.

 

With a final cough, he spat blood and fell back onto the bed, and passed out.

Sebastian only recalled snatches of things when he was not himself. Once, he had remembered Roxanne performing hypnosis on him. He had hated it so much that he had an urge to drag her into the kitchen and savagely mutilate her with a knife.

The memory of him opening fire at the woman who burst into the room swam across his mind.

“No… no!” Sebastian moaned in his sleep. “Sasha, I didn’t mean to do that. I… “

“Sebastian, wake up!” Roxanne attempted to rouse him out of his nightmare.

his eyes violently and sat upright. Grabbing her wrist roughly, he cried, “It was

tears that had fallen freely down his

as it was the first time she had seen him

did not even shed a tear

on to Roxanne’s

pity. The sight of his miserable state

“I’m

“What did you say?”

struck by

brought here, her body had been left behind. Karl had brought her back after you. He did not tell you because he was worried for

Smack!

abrupt slap across her face by

out!” he commanded, glaring at her with bloodshot eyes, looking like a ghost condemned to perpetual

the urge to retaliate. Nobody had

could not muster up the courage to hit him back, though the anger burned within her. Contenting herself with a fierce glare at

Sasha is dead!

door remained closed. The man inside was detached from the

broken down in

us try and

Grandpa. We are all wearing the clothes that Mommy bought for us. Daddy would love it.” Vivian approached Frederick as she

into pieces at the sight of their

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