Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 787:

“That’s because they fear you,” Allison said, her voice steady despite the tremble in her eyelashes, a mix of fear and defiance. “I was scared, too. But I’ve realized you’re just as human as anyone else. As a human being, you can’t always be right. You’ll inevitably make mistakes.”

Her words quickened Verruckt’s pulse. Did she truly see him as human?

On Fleeingland, he had been labeled a monster, with his own men keeping their distance from the so-called madman. But Alice, despite her timidity and evident fear, still dared to lock eyes with him and assert, “You’re human, with human emotions.”

Verruckt felt a peculiar shift within himself. Accustomed to command, he usually wouldn’t allow anyone’s words to unsettle him.

“I don’t care about right or wrong, only the outcome,” he declared, his expression as cold and calculating as a wolf poised to pounce.

For some inexplicable reason, her vulnerable look only intensified his desire to torment her further. Even though he was the one who had been slapped, it was Alice who was in tears — a fact that only exacerbated his annoyance.

tear out your heart

saw Alice pale at his chilling words. Despite the tremble in her fingers,

provoked him. “But if you force me, you’ll only have a corpse,

seconds before,

up,” he hissed, his

at the sound of his own words. Their eyes locked, his gaze piercing like a sword, slicing through the air to gauge her

of Alice dying before him shook

thinking too much. Tonight is merely a performance,” he sneered, pushing down the turmoil inside him. “I should have briefed you beforehand. That oversight won’t cost you for that slap. But

his attention back

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