Chapter 68 Only He Can Soothe Me

Charles‘ POV

“I want Bailey destroyed!”

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When she said it, Aubrey’s eyes burned with two ghostly blue flames–like hellfire born of hatred. Cold. Unforgiving.

I didn’t understand. I couldn’t understand what it was she hated so much. Bailey was only seventeen. What could she possibly have done that was so unforgivable?

“Aubrey, you’re being extreme! Even if Bailey did something wrong, it was probably just sibling teasing taken too far. You didn’t have to go this far!”

“Sisterly teasing?” Aubrey let out a laugh, sharp and cold, as if she’d just heard the joke of the century. “OF course. In your eyes, she’s the perfect little sister–everything she does is innocent, harmless, just a spoiled child’s mistake, right?”

Her eyes blazed brighter, voice laced with contempt. “In that case, why are you wasting time here? Go back and comfort your poor, mistreated little sister. Tell her her dear big brother Charles will always believe in her innocence!”

“You-!”

A surge of anger, tangled with indescribable disappointment, rose violently to my head. My vision. blackened at the edges.

She was the one who’d ruined everything, and yet she stood here, unrepentant, accusing me of betrayal!

woman I’d liked so deeply was turning out to


fury and tried to reason with her. “Aubrey, you’ve

trying to be funny, or is your bias really

the

word. Her eyes were glacial, like distant stars–sharp enough to

I’d been the one in that video–if it were me–then before

I’d have done everything in my power to protect you! I’d find the truth, no matter what it cost. I’d never let

left my mouth,

the flame within them flickered for just a breath. The sharp, biting hatred

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He Can Soothe

she wasn’t

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my voice and tried again, gentler. “Even if someone plotted against you… once you saw through it, you could’ve just escaped. Why go so far as to shove

Aubrey gave me one long look. Her expression iced

be friends. And definitely never family.

and

final–stabbed deep into

told myself I

Aubrey, I

Bailey had to be innocent. And if that was true, then Aubrey’s

Aubrey’s POV

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