“We didn't expect this to happen, did we?” Silas looked at Shane and asked. “All we wanted to do was torture her, yet she killed herself. Does this mean our revenge had failed?”

Shane clenched his fists. He was obviously displeased with the turn of events.

But what else can I do? The woman is dead. I can't possibly get a medical expert to resuscitate her so that I can kill her with my bare hands, can I?

Or should I whip her lifeless body to vent my frustration? But that's not me. I'm not that perverted.

“Let's just leave her as she is,” Shane said while staring at Jacqueline.

It's a shame that I couldn't avenge my parents, but since she's dead, it's time for me to let go.

He reached out his hands to grab a corner of the comforter and pulled it upward, covering Jacqueline's body with the bed covering.

With a deadpan expression, he turned around and instructed Silas, “Let's go. Get someone to clean this up later.”

“All right, Mr. Shane.” Silas nodded and left the room with him.

The moment they reached downstairs, they bumped into Natalie, who had just entered the building.

Natalie quickened her pace and walked up to him. “Shane, you...”

she could further, she noticed his blood-stained hands. She froze for a

followed her line of sight and lowered his head. He then shook his head and answered,

bewildered. She asked, “Then whose

“It's Jacqueline's,” he answered.

accidentally tainted my hand when I pulled up the

at that. “Jacqueline's blood? Don't

her

sigh of relief. “You nearly gave me the shock of my life. I thought

dead,” Shane

dead? Didn't you say

suicide, madam,” Silas

not believe her

able to walk out of here alive, and she knew Mr. Shane would torture her to death. So she kept a shard of glass and stabbed her neck with it,”

conversation

Natalie seemed to have gotten over the shock. She sighed and said, “I guess I shouldn't be surprised by what Jacqueline had done to herself. She's a proud woman who would not allow anyone to step all over her, so I guess I can understand why she decided to end

let bygones be bygones,” Shane said while

“That's for

up and saw two security guards busy

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