Chapter 988

"I just... want to go home..."

Evadne's eyes brimmed with tears, her grip crumpling his shirt as she sobbed

uncontrollably, her distress pulling at heartstrings, "I miss my dad, my brothers, I miss... Thaddeus...

Please... let me go home... okay? Please..."

He listened in silence, his stride firm and unwavering, offering no words.

"Give Evadne back to me!"

Avery, disregarding any semblance of composure, charged forward, his eyes bloodshot as he blocked Hans's path.

"You're not married to Ms. Evadne yet. Technically, she's not yours."

Hans's gaze was unmoved, eyeing Avery's pallid face with a slight, mocking curl of his lips, "Besides, even if I were to hand her over, could you really catch her?"

Avery's frail body shuddered, his trembling hand retracting.

Despite being utterly exhausted and shell-shocked, Evadne's mind was startlingly clear.

Hans's words hinted at something more.

was already on his last legs, a candle burnt

grew fiercer, its

close as they moved

cries

is coming at

her bleary eyes to the man's deep-set,

have been your grave," Hans's

mix of fear and

a phone or computer, she was oblivious to the weather

no storm? Would you let me go?" she asked him,

me tell you

blinked her swollen

the man before

had come to see him as

of hope that even if he was

memory, the core of his

came here to prevent you from

looked down at her, his gaze as deep as the ocean, "That was,

even if tonight was calm, you'd still stop

response was

felt her heart plummet,

that he's of no use, all of it will be taken back," Hans said matter-of-factly,

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