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-”

object, but stopped mid-sentence under his threatening glare. Admitting she

a

divorce, then? You can tarnish my

worse than death,” she suggested, seeing separation as her best

she wasn’t Agatha, and no one knew

the world know I’ve

left

to me. I want you to remain married, unable

I want you to suffer for

was clear-this man wanted her to endure a lifetime

down her spine, breaking out into

stepped closer, his icy fingers tracing up her

defiantly meeting his

were even

his fingers came to rest lightly on her

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mill? Do you know how furious I was when I was locked in there? I, who was once mighty, was reduced to that. If it

and calm, as though he were discussing something wholly unrelated

Violet was acutely aware of the hatred concealed beneath his

me back then. That

to

at any moment.

felt like it was running in reverse; she looked at him with a mix of fear and

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