Chapter 0056

Lucius cracked a small smile. “What else can I do? You’ve driven away all of my lovers. Isn’t it your

responsibility to take over their duties?”

Their duties… Violet immediately understood what he implied. Instinctively, she crossed her arms over her

chest. “I’m very tired.”

She had barely interacted with those women, so their departure couldn’t possibly be her fault. However, Lucius was indifferent to her protest. He began to unbutton his shirt as he approached the bed.

Violet’s heart raced in terror. The relentless torment of the past days weighed on her as heavily as the work

she had endured at the dog mill earlier.

Given the choice, Violet would have preferred to spend the night with the dogs instead.

“I’m filthy, covered in dog waste and dirt. I still reek,” she protested, making a face of disgust on purpose.

“I can handle it,” Lucius said, dismissing her attempt at dissuasion with ease.

Violet suppressed the impulse to throw something at him in anger.

“Don’t forget, you’re the one named on my marriage certificate,” he reminded her deliberately.

“I’m not even-”

under his threatening glare. Admitting she wasn’t

a harsher

tarnish my reputation afterward.

life worse than death,” she suggested,

she wasn’t Agatha, and no one

“Let the world know I’ve been

left

pointless to me. I want you to remain married, unable to

want you

clear-this man wanted her to endure a

down her spine, breaking out into a

closer, his icy fingers tracing up her

meeting his cold

even colder

his fingers came to rest lightly on

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was locked in there? I, who was once mighty, was reduced to that.

calm, as though he

of the hatred concealed

killed me back then. That was

neck exerted enough pressure to make breathing difficult, as if she could

at any moment.

running in reverse; she

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