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!"
the occasional flash of headlights that flickered before Vivienne's eyes. Percival, with
to
man spoke. His voice was hoarse, almost eerie in the pitch-black setting, yet Vivienne heaved a sigh of relief as she said, "Mr. Wolf, trust me, I will heal your
control the hatred bubbling up inside
out of respect for her status as the Ellington heiress, she would be placed in an unknown hospital with professional care to at least keep her alive. But the reality
moment Percival had pulled back the covers, even he couldn't
that foul stench lingering around the Abernathy property came
and stained blanket was Holly's withered body, wounds festering and crawling
moment, Percival felt a murderous
that those people were still useful. But the agony he felt for Holly and the hatred for the Abernathys
his head deeper into Vivienne's stomach, his clenched eyes hiding
flashed in her eyes. "Mr. Wolf, the dead do not deserve our
recall the last time he had seen such a chilling expression on
ancient warrior lineage was formidable, but was Vivienne
about, they couldn't just hand their life over to
glanced at the caller ID before saying, "Vivienne,
"Hand it over."
the phone
Draven's voice, cool yet tinged with anger,
Vivienne didn't need to guess; she knew Gavin must have stirred
taken the ashes and are threatening that if we don't hand over the secret recipe within three days, they'll scatter her
tightened as she inhaled deeply. "How
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