Predatory Marriage (Web Novel)

Chapter 234 – Difficult Decision (2)

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

“Ahhh…!” Count Valtein collapsed to the ground, blood spilling red across the grass. Leah caught her breath as she watched.

“One at a time, Leah. Valtein first, then Laurent, then the knights…” Blains smile was cruel. “Then I will kill myself last.”

He was not sane. Leah stared at him, paling as he brandished the bloody sword in his hand and suddenly screamed frantically.

“I will kill myself, Leah! The man you love will die!”

A rattling echo sounded in her ears, a rattling of chains followed by a headache so crushing, she covered her ears with her hands, her head shaking from side to side. And suddenly, she felt someone holding her.

Slowly, she opened her eyes, tears welling from the excruciating pain. As she looked up into golden eyes, the tears slid down her cheeks.

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“Ishakan…” She had to ask the question. “If I leave Estia, I wont get my memories back, right?”

“……”

Ishakan said nothing, but his golden eyes darkened. She felt her heart clench.

Her eyes went to the flames blazing past his shoulders, Blain with his blood-stained sword, and the terrified Valtein and Laurent. She didnt want to go to them. The bare thought of the palace filled with all those people blank as dolls made her feel suffocated. She wanted to forget everything and run away to the desert with Ishakan.

But if she ran away, all of her people would live like this the rest of her lives. She couldnt live wondering and worrying about the people she had left behind.

And she thought of the locked door.

She still hadnt found the key. If she ran away, she would never be able to open it. Everything would be as it was now, and she would never know what lay behind it. The baby wolf she saw in her dreams had risked his life, fighting the chains that bound her. It would be cowardly for her to run away.

And she remembered what the voice she heard beyond the door had said.