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!"

car in the darkness, save for the occasional flash of headlights that

seemed to crawl

said, "Mr. Wolf, trust me, I will heal your aunt." Percival's grim expression softened slightly. He shifted, leaning his

bubbling up inside him toward Gavin

for his aunt, out of respect for her status as the Ellington heiress, she would be placed in an

had pulled back the covers, even he couldn't suppress the

understood where that foul stench lingering

Holly's withered body, wounds festering and crawling with

moment, Percival felt a

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

to bury his head deeper into Vivienne's stomach, his clenched eyes hiding the

gently caressing his hair as a chill flashed in her eyes. "Mr. Wolf, the dead do

had seen such a chilling

warrior lineage was

couldn't just hand their life over to

glanced at the caller ID before saying, "Vivienne, it's

"Hand it over."

the

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

to guess; she knew Gavin

and are threatening that if we don't hand over the secret recipe within three

phone tightened as she inhaled deeply. "How is Kaitlyn

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