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Haarely glanced at the photograph before nausea churned my stomach. With a swift motion, I tossed in

aside.

Carter, unfazed, methodically sifted through each image. The final photograph wasn't of Sadie. Instead, it was Silas's grave. The photo had been alte

Before Silas's headstone lay a human head, blood seeping from every orifice, with a striking red mole on the forehead.

The head was mine.

Carter's fingers tightened around the edges of the photos, his knuckles pale, veins bulging across the back

of his hand

"She's sending a message. She wants to use my head as an offering for Silas."

Kemp adjusted his glasses, his voice steady. "Ms. Gardner, from now on, all deliveries will be screened in advance. Something like this will not happen again."

"All the secretarial stall-are they from Bill's team? Any outsiders?" Carter asked sharply.

"No outsiders, Mr. Bolton, Every single one of them has been with Mr. Gardner for at least a decade. They're reliable, Kemp assured him.

"Keep it that way. Outsiders should have no access to Ms. Gardner," Carter reminded him firmly.

"Understood."

Bill's company might have been new, but his team was composed of trusted personnel he'd brought over. There was no room for breaches.

After finishing my work, I went to the funeral home. Sadie's body was already being cremated.

It had been two months since I last saw Monica, but she was nearly unrecognizable now.

The once carefully maintained face, which had undergone numerous cosmetic surgeries, was now riddled with blemishes and scars, likely worsened by neglect or abuse.

Time hadn't been kind to her aging features, and without money to sustain her lavish upkeep, she appeared haggard and strange.

"Oh, my poor daughter! Her anguished wails echoed as I approached.

Beside her stood Zack, who had also changed. He'd lost a considerable amount of weight, and though his belly had shrunk, his once-round face now bore sharp, malicious contours. His eyes brimmed with malice, devoid of any grief or tenderness.

who had

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she had never once addressed Zack as

Sadie had hurled insults at him during every

Zack's cold indifference, snapped, "Our daughter's being cremated right now! How can you stand there without shedding a single tear? She's your flesh and blood!" "Daughter?" Zack sneered, his voice dripping with venom. "She never once

in the air, cutting like a blade. He was describing a dead woman-a

became clear to me who Sadie had inherited her vicious nature from. With such flawed parents, how could she have grown up to be anything else? Driven to madness, Monica

already bore the marks of prior fights, evidence of their frequent

skirmishes.

made sense-when they had money, she was his

without money and far from the innocence of youth, their love couldn't even sustain civility. Who knew how often their home turned into a battlefield? Zark, however, didn't hesitate. He slapped her

from that slap,

raised her head, her eyes met Bill's cold,

sense; even he said nothing, she had lost

had nearly poisoned Bill, for the

love with her, he would have at least given her a comfortable settlement to ensure her financial security if she had simply remained silent. But her greed consumed her. Having already lived in luxury, she wanted Bill's

couldn't get it, she tried to destroy

she and

should have been

out the urn. "Who's the

Bill stepped forward.

moment the

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we did to you, I never thought you'd still care for Sadie. She had been your daughter for 20 years. You're a better lather than Zack ever

for her. I hate her. I only took her ashes because I promised her I'd handle

before her death, and even in her final moments, she was surrounded by disgrace. Her parents lacked the resources to

to purchase her a burial plot, she likely wouldn't even have a place to

planted a magnolia tree by her grave and erected a simple tombstone- The inscription on

in death, Bill had

Bill sat quietly at her grave. "In the afterlife,

to her."

a bouquet of chrysanthemums by the tombstone, severing all ties to the girl he had once treated as

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snapshot from her time with the Gardners. She wore a lavish gown,

perceived as a pampered princess, she

down by

I made a trip

fresh bouquet of chrysanthemums rested there,

it immediately-it had been Sadie's,

Anna had been here?

and I commanded the bodyguards, "Catch