Chapter 1981

Ryan's deep gaze abruptly sharpened. For a moment, his vision blurred.

"She's dead?"

"Yes... She died a terrible death. By the time someone found her body, it was nearly unrecognizable."

Dean's brows furrowed as he continued in a low voice, "The police discovered during the autopsy that someone had sexually assaulted her. She also contracted severe sexually transmitted diseases, and her lower body was severely ulcerated."

Ryan closed his reddened eyes, his hand gripping the water basin and trembling with visible veins.

"Who did it?"

"Multiple people." Dean's tongue pressed against his teeth. "After arriving in Terranova, they sent Zoe to an underground club. It was essentially a high-end brothel. The brothel primarily used girls there for the sexual service of high-ranking officials in Terranova. Anyone who ended up there faced the inevitable outcome of getting played to death. Even if Zoe didn't get killed outright, her final fate would've been the same."

Ryan lowered his pale eyelids.

A mix of intense, bitter, and confused emotions churned his insides, leaving him unable to speak for a long while.

He undoubtedly hated Zoe.

smuggling ship, leaving her to fend for herself in a foreign land, his heart was still burning with the flames

could not hate her anymore. It felt as if a black, gaping hole had opened in his heart, swallowing all the love and hate

no reason to grieve for Zoe, even

ended up like this. If it weren't for her, my master and the entire Hoffman family wouldn't

and bring Zoe's ashes

"After that, investigate what she went through during

past is the past. She

must be someone familiar with the Hoffman Group. There are

eyes widened

Zoe are now irrelevant. But I must

vigorously,

noticed people from the

greeted him with a

to Dean, wiped his wet hands on his trousers, and

Chairman Salvador."

now as the Hoffman

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