The Almighty Dragon General

Chapter 14

The two cuts were a stark contrast to her otherwise fair skin. Blood kept flowing from the wounds, dyeing her neck red.

Her vision turned misty as crystalline tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, falling and mixing with her blood.

She had fallen into despair.

Faced with General Trent Xavier, all her helplessness and hopelessness piled up.

More than anything, hate swelled up within her.

She hated that she ran into that fire because she heard someone calling out for help!

She may have saved one person, but the injury that had been inflicted upon her cost her ten years of torment! Ten years of pain!

She became the laughing stock of the entire school when she got those burns.

Even the friends she was once close with wanted nothing to do with her!

Her classmates treated her like a bringer of plagues, avoiding her as much as they could!

Her family started hating her. Even her own parents treated her like she was worthless!

When her scars were finally healed, she had thought that maybe those ten years of suffering were worth it, after all.

But now, she was once again in the throes of despair.

"Please, General Xavier. This has absolutely nothing to do with us. It's all Thea's fault!"

"Yeah! It's all her fault! Torture her if you want, just please let us go!"

Thea stared up at Trent's expressionless face and listened to the Callahans push her onto the proverbial train tracks, all so they themselves could live. She fell deeper into despair.

"Not talking, are you?"

cold. Immediately, two men

"Sir."

want everyone in Cansington to know what happens when they cross my family. We'll deal with Alex Yates after getting

"Yes, sir."

then dragged her out by the hair like it

hall. Her wounds sent sharp sparks of pain through her every time they

on the top floor of the Cansington Hotel, the

starting bids

figures in Cansington. They were all

bankrupted the Xaviers, but Trent Xavier had returned to gather

attendees had no choice but to bid. Trent was the General of the western border. He had immense power, and

on were fakes and forgeries that were worth

last bid was complete. It was Moonlit Flowers

Cliffside's Edge. The starting bid is eight million, bidders must bid no less than half a million every

crowd understood what happened when the painting resurfaced. That painting Thea had destroyed was also a fake. The Xaviers just wanted an excuse to

because Thea Callahan had called Alex Yates and put him on speaker, so Alex heard what Joel Xavier had said and bankrupted the Xaviers

fair starting bid for it, yet now the Xaviers

Frasiers. We bid ten million. I'm getting that

representing the Zimmermans. We bid eleven million. I

Wilsons. We

was fake, but in order to get on the Western Border General Trent Xavier's good side, some of the wealthier families started bidding in earnest. Soon enough, the forged Moonlit Flowers on

was finally bought for

was waiting for yet another item, two fully

missing, and she had friction burns on

a cold

released once she

just so happened to be

stand. They were all big names in Cansington, but the sight of Thea's bloodied face terrified them. Their faces went pale as they sat frozen in

"Help… help me…"

to them like a drowning woman to a straw, calling out to