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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.

be just like Sierra and the others?

her morals; perhaps, as Timmothy had suggested, it was because she had never taken a life

me now, Nathael could find you a lawyer and argue for self–defense,” he

found themselves locked in a stalemate. He continued to press the blade down, while she

her own powerlessness.

down, Maggie had to acknowledge that she couldn’t go through with it. She couldn’t bring herself to pierce his

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leaned in closer, his voice barely a whisper in Maggie’s ear. “What if I showed you how?”

intensified. The dagger pierced his

clear, as though it could penetrate one’s eardrums.

admit her defeat. She suddenly released her

landed squarely on his face. He was momentarily

out the dagger and slashed viciously across his

The blood streaked down the wound, thick

and the mercenaries nearby took a couple of steps

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

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

since he

your actions.”

Now, her eyes exuded a fierce, unrestrained intensity, as if

had asked Nathael about the reasons for

understood Nathael’s silence–he wasn’t afraid to admit his own mistakes, but he didn’t want

as he had done in their past lives, avoiding confrontation for a long

flickering across his face. “You know nothing. Don’t act

observed him coldly. She said,

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

tell me,” Maggie challenged, refusing to back down.

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down, scrutinizing the woman before him with a sinister look.