Chapter 0416

Chapter 0416

"Think whatever you want!" Suzy's patience had worn thin. "Claude, I'll give you three days to reconsider. You'd better tell me what I want to know, or else"

"There's no need to wait three days," Claude interrupted, his tone cutting. "I've already told you everything. Stop clinging to false hope, Every word I've said is true."

His voice lowered, cold and calculated. "As for Dylan's body, like I told you before, it was fed to the fish. A massive school of them. I even added a little something to his within five minutes, they picked him clean."

corpse-

Suzy clenched her fists tightly but said nothing. Turning on her heel, she left the apothecary, leaving Claude behind.

What Suzy didn't know was how familiar Claude was with this place. After all, it was here, in this very apothecary, that he had killed her mentor with his own hands.

The reason?

It had happened on a day much like this one. Her mentor had unexpectedly run into Claude outside. Fearing the old man would say something he shouldn't to Suzy, Claude had followed him back in secret.

Here, in the apothecary, the confrontation unfolded. Her mentor had demanded, "Suzy trusts you completely. Why would you betray that trust and deceive her?"

but the old man's response had been firm. "No matter the reason, you have no right to deceive

values you.

hurts'more than being lied to by someone you care about. Have

his knees before the old man. "That's why I'm begging you-please let me marry her. Help me make this

wants to marry her?" The old man's voice was sharp, his principles unshakable. "I don't need Suzy's partner to be powerful or extraordinary. I only

to deceive her, no matter

though she were his own

lifetime, and Suzy was the child

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the moment she joined the organization, he felt

of that, his expectations for Suzy

Suzy never

everything, always surpassing

in her.

he couldn't tolerate Claude's deception-not even a

it.

snapped. "You old fool! Who do you

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