Chapter 52

The golden dagger flew past Bruno, almost nicking his ear in the process. When he realized what had happened, he was so terrified he almost wet himself!

The dagger had a folded strip of paper attached to it. Bruno waited for a moment to be sure that no more weapons would come flying at him before he slowly detached the strip of paper and unfolded it.

Written in a small, elegant script was a message.

"Daddy dearest, why do you and Mom insist on mistreating my son? He's your grandchild after all, and he's just a little boy still. How can you treat him like that? I can't understand it at all, so I have no choice but to return and sort this matter out with the two of you."

When Bruno read this, his brow knitted tightly together. This had to be a malicious prank. However, when he saw that the signature was Madeline's, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat!

Madeline? How could this be? She had been dead for ages; how could she possibly come back from the grave after so many years?

The thought of it made Bruno's scalp prickled, and he felt an icy hand clutch at his heart.

"Kingsley! Kingsley!"

"I'm here, Mr. Bruno sir, what's the matter?" Kingsley, the Grant family's butler, came hurrying over. He noticed that his master's face was as white as a sheet as if something had frightened him badly and hastily moved to support him.

"It's Madeline! She's come back!"

"Sir, do you mean Ms. Madeline? She died five years ago, though, didn't she?" Kingsley was puzzled and assumed that Bruno had become confused in a moment of senility. Patiently, he corrected his master, attempting to help him upstairs so he could lie down and rest.

At this moment, something shattered the wall of the villa. Glass and tiles went flying everywhere.

Bruno scarcely had time to take in what was happening before the grappling hook that had been hurled through the wall tightened. In an instant, the entire wall was ripped out of the Grant residence.

Bruno could only stare in stunned disbelief.

The house was being demolished!

that one wall of the

took a step forward to try and discover the perpetrator of this outrage, but his path was immediately blocked by a

hungrily at the parquet flooring, which

it, Kingsley! Someone's trying to kill

collapsed with a thunderous crash, and

way. He collapsed limply to sit on the ground. Despair engulfed him in a massive wave. He had lost everything!

was so eager to drive him into his grave? Could it

however, despair

alive and well, sitting atop the roof of her car with a

satisfaction at the blazing inferno, she hopped down and got into

simple act of taking revenge had made her feel much better, even though she had let

Madeline!

cardholders' lounge. Dressed in a pastel pink evening gown, she looked thoroughly out of place in the gaudy, glitzy surroundings, like a pristine angel who had been soiled by the cares

heard that Noah would be here today, so she had taken particular care in dressing up. She was now seated in a spot that he was sure to pass on his way to the private

not behaved like a pig-headed fool and kidnapped Colton, she would not have needed to take such

would certainly not be invited to the birthday

had resulted in the entire Grant family being blacklisted from

Noah! She had no choice but to find another way around the situation. As long as she became pregnant with

minutes to go, but he was nowhere in sight.

grew tired of them. She knew better than anyone why these men

in the corner of the lounge before Noah's arrival, trying her best to keep a low profile and not draw attention to

look, isn't that Imperia's very own charitable

large ears, and an equally large rotund stomach. He

and refused to look at him. Noah would be arriving soon; she did not wish to stir up unwanted

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