Chapter 365 The Well Water

Third Person POV

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From above, Aubrey’s voice drifted down, sharp and unyielding. Aurelia’s tear–streaked face twitched at the words.

“You’ve dirtied the carpet.”

“No… I didn’t!”

“Drag it to the yard and wash it properly. Remember to use water from the well on the far left.”

In this weather, scrubbing a carpet outside? And with that well’s water?

Aurelia’s face went ghostly pale. That well–she knew it too well. She had once thrown wolfsbane powder into it regularly, and sometimes punished Aubrey by forcing her to wash clothes with that water. When Aubrey was young and powerless, her hands had blistered and festered countless times from it.

And when her little hands had rotted, Aurelia had made her wear fine gloves, warning her that if she ever tattled to Jax, she’d be tossed headfirst into the well.

was demanding she wash the carpet with that same water?

“Are you unwilling?”


her tone laced with false puzzlement, as though genuinely

“Jax… Jax…”

red from tears, she looked wretched–more like

a fuss even over

voice was hard with exasperation. He turned on his heel and left, his back vanishing

quiet laughter floated

by tonight,

being the villain was exhilarating—especially when the other had no power

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The Well

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Finished

It made her want to

I’m being too cruel,

at Aubrey with pure venom, wishing she

be so cruel? I was your stepmother! Aren’t

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