Chapter 54

"Aveline, do you know how miserable Layla was while you were being praised and treated like a princess? I personally visited the mountain village where she used to live. It was desolate and impoverished. Most people couldn't even have a proper meal for three days. I heard that she was originally bought to be a child bride, locked up like a dog in a firewood room since she was young. She was treated like a delicate little princess in the Sterling family, but had to work like a slave in such a place. She suffered for so many years, and finally made it to A City. If she had just held on a little longer, I could have found her."

Aveline was choked by him and unable to speak. The feeling of suffocation gradually overwhelmed her. She pushed Alexander with her hands, tears streaming down her face, trying to awaken his sanity. However, Alexander was immersed in the sorrowful memories. "She was insulted by Anthony, that beast. He strangled her and stuffed her into a box, leaving her in despair... Look, just like you now. Can you feel her pain a little?

"Let... go!" Aveline struggled, but it was futile.

Alexander's eyes turned bloodshot, like a wild beast that had lost its sanity.

Aveline gasped for breath, knowing that if she continued like this, she would be strangled to death by him. She had no choice but to keep struggling.

"Aveline, I had already planned to let you go, but you insisted on barging in."

expression became more and more extreme,

said, "Aveline, how about we go down together and accompany Layla? She must be scared being alone down there.

completely gone mad. In her struggle, Alexander accidentally touched the wound she had sewn up last night, causing it to tear

Alexander's eyes, and only then did he let go. Aveline's body collapsed to the ground, and

staring at him with

only then realizing what he had just done.

Aveline.

hand..." he said

her down jacket from the sofa, and braved the

that she was going to

the closest she had ever been to death, and it turned out that she wasn't as calm as she had

had only one thought in her

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