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Chapter 286 Maggie is Ruthless

Timmothy turned around. He placed the dagger in her hand and pointed it at his own heart.

Maggie blinked her eyes in disbelief as she looked at him.

He smiled and gazed at him with clear eyes. Timmothy applied more pressure to her hand, urging the dagger closer to his chest.

Maggie’s eyes welled up with tears. She couldn’t help but wonder if lunacy ran into their family.

Both Nathael and Timmothy seemed to share similar traits.

Timmothy towered over her, his presence casting a shadow on Maggie. Despite his imposing stature, he smiled at her with difficulty. “Go ahead, kill me. I can assure you they’ll release you once I’m gone,” he said.

His tone was light and eerily persuasive, drawing her towards the abyss.

Maggie felt a lump form in her throat, and a thin layer of sweat formed on her brow.

Kill him?

It crossed her mind that eliminating him could alleviate many of Nathael’s future troubles.

However, did she have the right to decide his fate without knowing the extent of Timmothy’s actions. against Nathael?

“Have you ever taken a life?”

He noticed her action. Timmothy chuckled and guided her hand, urging the dagger deeper into his flesh.

A dark red stain spread, creeping up his black shirt like a morbid flower blooming,

Maggie’s hand trembled as she gripped the dagger tightly, but she found herself unable to follow through.

In that moment, Maggie realized she had lost the battle.

She simply couldn’t bring herself to do it.

she be just like

it was because she had never taken a life before and simply couldn’t

smiled, finding amusement in the situation. “If you were to kill me now,

stalemate. He continued to press the blade down, while she remained unable to push

despised her own

deep down, Maggie had to acknowledge that she couldn’t go through with it. She couldn’t bring herself to pierce his heart or slit his throat, especially not when he spoke so

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barely a whisper in Maggie’s ear. “What if I showed you how?”

intensified. The dagger pierced his

sound, but startlingly clear, as

to admit her defeat. She suddenly released her hold and swung a fierce punch at Timmothy’s

punch landed squarely on his face. He was

swiftly pulled out the dagger and slashed viciously across his face!

the wound, thick as undiluted ink,

help but flinch, and the mercenaries nearby took a couple of steps forward, their

the mercenaries” presence. With a cold stare, she confessed, I couldn’t bring myself to kill you, but that doesn’t mean 1 won’t leave you with

eyes dark and mysterious, a glimmer of something dancing within them.

but since he cares enough to protect you, I won’t disappoint him. We all have

your actions.”

a fierce, unrestrained intensity, as if she had lifted

Nathael about the reasons for

wasn’t afraid to admit his own mistakes, but he

he was shielding his brother, just as he had

laugh, a hint of madness flickering across his face. “You know nothing. Don’t act self–righteous on behalf of

observed him coldly. She said, “Whatever debt Nathael owes you,

colder as he retorted, “Do you really think you can afford it?”

tell me,” Maggie challenged, refusing

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were enigmatic as he looked down, scrutinizing the woman before him with