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-”

mid-sentence under his threatening glare. Admitting she

provoke a harsher

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

live a life worse than death,” she

care less about her reputation; she wasn’t Agatha, and no one

sneered in response, “Let the world

words left

is pointless to me. I want you to remain

me. I want you to suffer for a

clear-this man wanted her to endure a

down her spine, breaking

his icy

stiffened, defiantly meeting

were even colder than his

rest lightly on her shoulder, near her

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

gentle and calm, as though

of the hatred concealed beneath his calm

back then.

fingers resting on her neck exerted enough pressure to make breathing difficult, as if she

at any moment.

blood felt like it was running in reverse; she looked at him with a

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