Rising from the Ashes BY Only For You

---- Chapter 1094 Late at night at the Golding family estate, the massive mansion blazed with lights from top to bottom.

Strangely, though, the entire place was dead silent, not a single person in sight.

Only the grand hall was occupiedseveral figures stood beneath the towering chandeliers.

At the center sat Richard, head of the Golding family, high on the main seat with an icy expression carved into his face.

The butler stepped forward and leaned in to whisper in his ear.

" Sir, there's an update on the bounty." Richard's eyes flickered.

He growled, "Well? Where's Andrew's head?" The butler's face twisted slightly.

"We didn't recover Andrew's head, sir...

but three members of the assassin group were found dead at the villa.

We believe it was Andrew's residence here, but by the time our men arrived, the place had already been cleaned out." The flicker of satisfaction in Richard's eyes disappeared, replaced with pure disgust.

He hissed, "How useless.

Knowing his place, the butler backed away quickly without another word, Richard's foul mood darkened further as his bloodshot eyes swept across the room.

There was Elon, his eldest sonslumped, broken, ---- a hollow shell of himself.

Kenny and Sherilyn were on their knees in the center of the hall, begging for mercy over and over again.

Richard stood and stalked toward Elon, his voice cold and sharp.

" You're acting like the world is ending.

what? Some little scandal?" Elon's

right to be

marry someone

disgraced the entire Golding name." Richard

brought that kind of woman into this

understand that this sort of humiliation

to

giving you a chance to redeem yourself."

Richard grinned cruelly and tossed a dagger at

kill the woman who disgraced our family." Elon, already pale, went ghost

turned

"Think hard.

or someone else willbecause, at this point,

in crisis, you hesitate, you

a man fit

return from the military and take your place." Elon's hands trembled as he reached for the blade,

Richard shook his head.

as brave or capable as your younger

martial training advanced rapidlyhe's the

military, Archer's become even

was just

the pride of

about the only thing you've got going for

and now a

kill the woman who betrayed you and disgraced our name, and you can't even do that? How could I ever hand over the family to someone like

begged, "Dad, I'm

I'm not weak.

But Sherilyn...