Chapter 21
Howard’s gun was still pointed at the trembling woman, but in the moment he heard this voice, his finger trembled imperceptibly,
He turned around slowly.
Victoria stood on a sand dune ten steps away, the seabreeze lifting the hem of her oversized coarse cloth dress, revealing her legs wrapped in bandages. She had lost a lot of weight, her checks sunken, but her eyes remained bright and sharp, piercing straight at him in the flickering firelight.
“Put the down
She repeated it again, her voice colder than the sea
Howard’s Adam’s apple bobbed, but the barrel of the gun remained still.
“Come here.”
Victoria didn’t move. Behind her, there was a faint sound of a gun being cocked. Elliot had somehow circled around to the rocks, the dark barrel of the gun pointed directly at Howard’s heart.
said it one last time.”
Victoria took a step forward, with a fishbone knife pressed against her own carotid artery.
“Put down the gun, or I’ll make sure you won’t even find the body.”
Howard’s pupils suddenly contracted. He was too familiar with this look. It was the same look she had when she first killed someone, with a determination to go down together.
The gun “clicked” as it fell on the beach.
Victoria immediately kicked away the weapon, but as she bent down, Howard grabbed her wrist. His hot palm rubbed against the scar on the inside of her wrist, his voice hoarse and unrecognizable, “…It’s really you.”
This sentence stabbed into Victoria’s heart like a blunt knife, catching her off guard. She jerked away suddenly, leaving a trail of blood on Howard’s hand from the blade.
“Don’t touch me!”
“Victoria, do you know how hard it was for me to find you?”
Howard’s mouth twitched slightly, his eyes filled with a sense of relief.
“I really thought you didn’t want me anymore”
Victoria sneered and looked at the man with red eyes in disbelief.
“It was 1
s you who didn’t want my Howard first!”
“It was you who sheltered Beatrice, it was you who killed my Cocoa, it was you who ordered me to be thrown into the seal”
What are you pretending to be a good
d person now?”
ne, and Howard’s men finally broke through the villagers‘ blockade and rushed over, aiming a dozen guns
In the distance, the roar of engines suddenly came, at Victoria
“Do not move!” Howard shouted, but still kept this eyes on Victoria’s blood–soaked bandage.
“Whoever fired the gun, I will chop their whole family.”
The sea breeze swept past Mars between the two of them. Victoria suddenly laughed.
“Mr. Irwin was very imposing”
She pointed to the ruins still smoking behind her.
“Like the parents who burned these people to death back then?”
Howard’s expression went blank for a
a moment.
“What a confusion!”
The thin woman sullenly lunged forward and was firmly held down by her men. “Ten years ago in December, you led people to burn down our dock! My
son was the right years old”
Howard’s brow furrowol tighter and tighter, Victoria took the opportunity to step back two steps, but was pulled back by Howard.
His strength was so great that he almost crashed her shoulder bones, and there were emotions in his eyes that she could not understand.
Tyou think it was me?
important?
Victoria looked up at him, the bandage on his arm stained red with blood.
The onders were given by you, the people were sent by you, and the badge found in the fire was yours, Howard, do you dare say that these have nothing
to do with you?
I had know you were this kind of person, even if I had died in the orphanage ten years ago, I wouldn’t have been with you for ten years!”
Howard suddenly let goed her hand and took out a coin from his inner pocket, slapping it into her palm.
“It 1 said it wasn’t me,
e, would you believe it?
Te you believe me if I say I have never killed any innocent person?”
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