Leopold and Matthew had just finished loading the Abernathy family into the van, including Cormac, when the stench inside hit them like a wave, almost driving them back out the door. But seeing Vivienne and the others frozen by the bedside, Leopold steeled himself and stepped inside.

The woman on the bed was a shadow of her former self, her hair tangled and matted like weeds upon the pillow. Her face was streaked with dirt, and it looked like the Abernathys hadn't bothered to clean her in ages. If it weren't for the faint rise and fall of her chest, Leopold might have mistaken her for a corpse.

Wait a minute!

Those features...

How come she looked a bit like Percival?

Realizing this, Leopold's pupils dilated, his finger pointing shakily at the woman on the bed.

Then he glanced at Percival, whose stony face was unreadable, and noticed the air around him growing colder and heavier. Leopold took a step back, feeling as if his throat had been seized. He couldn't manage to utter a complete sentence.

Finally, it was Vivienne who broke the silence. "Mr. Wolf, let's get her out of here first."

She was genuinely shocked. They had only come to fetch a witness back to Rivenwood, and here they were, stumbling upon the very person Percival had spent years searching for.

Mr. Wolf's aunt, the Ellington heiress-Holly Ellington!

"Gavin Abernathy!"

outside devoured any trace of light, leaving their car in the darkness, save for the occasional flash of headlights that

to

me, I will heal your aunt." Percival's grim expression softened slightly. He shifted, leaning his head against Vivienne's shoulder. "Vivienne, I do

inside him toward Gavin and

her status as the Ellington heiress, she would be placed in an unknown hospital with professional care to at

covers, even he couldn't suppress the rising bile in his

stench lingering around the Abernathy

blanket was Holly's withered

moment, Percival felt

of his sanity reminded him that those people were still useful. But the agony he felt for Holly

his head deeper into Vivienne's stomach, his clenched eyes hiding the torrent of

the warmth through the thin fabric, Vivienne swallowed hard, her hand gently caressing his hair as a chill flashed in her eyes. "Mr. Wolf, the dead do not deserve our hatred." Matthew glanced up

last time he had seen such a chilling expression

warrior lineage was formidable, but was Vivienne

person Vivienne cared about, they couldn't just hand

rang then, and he glanced at the

"Hand it over."

the

yet tinged with anger, came through, "Young Master, there's

done now?" Vivienne didn't need to guess; she

joined Draven, "Ms. Vivienne, Gavin had people dig up Mrs. Littleton's parents' graves. They've taken the ashes and are threatening that

on the phone tightened as she inhaled deeply. "How is Kaitlyn

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