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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 Sierra

was because she had never taken a

smiled, finding amusement in the situation. “If you were to kill me now, Nathael could find you a lawyer and argue for self–defense,”

stalemate. He continued to press the blade down, while

her own powerlessness.

it. She couldn’t bring herself to pierce his heart or slit his throat, especially not when he

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

instant, the pressure on his hand intensified. The dagger pierced his flesh

clear, as though it could penetrate one’s

released her hold and swung a fierce

landed squarely on his

out the dagger and slashed viciously across his face!

on Timmothy’s face. The blood streaked down the wound, thick as undiluted

help but flinch, and the mercenaries nearby took a couple of steps forward, their dark gun barrels pointed directly

face Timmothy, disregarding the mercenaries” presence. With a cold stare, she confessed, I couldn’t bring myself to kill you, but

and mysterious, a glimmer of something dancing within

steady as she continued, “I don’t know why you hate Nathael so much, but since he cares enough to protect you, I won’t

your actions.”

regarded her with an unreadable expression. Now, her eyes exuded a fierce, unrestrained intensity, as

the

admit his own mistakes, but he didn’t want to expose

as he had done in their past lives,

laugh, a hint of madness flickering across his face. “You know nothing. Don’t act

lips tightened as she observed him coldly. She said, “Whatever debt Nathael owes you, I’ll

this amusing. His gaze turned colder as he retorted, “Do you really think you can afford

Maggie challenged, refusing

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eyes were enigmatic as he looked down, scrutinizing the woman before him with a sinister look.