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.

already on his

grew fiercer, its howling

close as they

her cries ceased that

is

eyes to the man's deep-set, resolute

attempted to flee, tonight's sea would have been your

a mix of fear

a phone or computer, she was oblivious to the weather forecast, unaware of the maritime

let me go?" she asked him,

tell you

blinked her swollen

man before

come to see him

hope that even if he was remade from destruction,

his

here to prevent you from

as deep as the ocean, "That was, Sir's command

was calm, you'd still stop

His response was

her heart

of no use, all of it will be taken back," Hans said matter-of-factly, "Sir never engages in a

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