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

provoke a

about we get a divorce, then? You can tarnish my reputation afterward. I won’t be able

worse than death,” she suggested,

she wasn’t Agatha, and no one

“Let the

words left

your reputation is pointless to me. I want

you

man wanted her to

run down her spine, breaking out into

his icy

stiffened, defiantly meeting his cold

eyes were even colder than

came to rest lightly on

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mill? Do you know how furious I was when I was locked in there? I, who was once mighty, was

and calm, as though he were discussing something

aware of the hatred concealed

should have killed me back

enough pressure to make breathing difficult,

at any moment.

was running in reverse; she looked at

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