Chapter 50

James’s roar was like cracking thunder, making Rowena’s ears ring and leaving her in a daze.

All she could do was sob, not knowing how else to respond. After a while, she finally calmed down enough to say something, her face a look of despair.

“I don’t know… I really don’t… I - I think Trent took the painting to the Capital as a gift for someone.”

Slice!

James picked up the switchblade from the bed and swung it at Rowena’s hand, splattering blood everywhere,

Rowena opened her mouth in agony, but no sound came out. Her expression twisted hideously in pain and she trembled.

James casually pulled out some silver needles and inserted them into Rowena’s body.

Rowena could not die yet. Not without the painting back in his hands. Her palm stopped bleeding after the needles were inserted, but the pain was still there. It was an unbearable kind of pain.

she wanted was

than death, yet she was

at Rowena, looking like a bereaved

is nowhere near enough to atone for your sins,”

again. Where is Moonlit Flowers on Cliffside’s Edge?”

Rowena said through chattering teeth,

James frowned.

have cracked and told him the truth under such torture, out of a primal need for self-preservation. If Rowena was saying that she

been passed down through his lineage for countless generations. His grandfather even said that their family could be annihilated, but the painting could not be

chattering. She fell incredibly lightheaded but was stuck in consciousness, unable to

on her face and arms,

fear she felt of him ran deep

spare you tonight,”

went. If by the time I come back for you, you

and walked over to Charles, dragging the cowering man up. Charles trembled, and a pool of liquid

to do with this! I d-don’t know

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