The Almighty Dominance

Chapter 331

Lyra stormed out into the open, chased closely by Sophia.

"Lyra! What the hell are you doing to Laura? I've never seen you like this before!"

Sophia had known Lyra for years. She'd always seemed kind, gentle even. This ruthless side was completely new and terrifying.

Ignoring Sophia, Lyra walked toward a nearby pond, plunging her blood-stained hands into the water.

She watched the blood swirl away and muttered, "You don't really know me, Sophia."

She moved slowly to a bench beneath a tree, pulled out a cigarette, and lit it.

"You told me you'd quit!" Sophia said, voice trembling with disappointment.

"I did quit,” Lyra exhaled sharply, blowing smoke into the sky.

"Three whole years. But today I broke it. I need this, Sophia."

Sophia stared in disbelief, struggling to find words. "How-how can you shoot people like this?"

Lyra shrugged, her tone cool and distant. "I practice at a shooting range. I have licenses for all my guns."

“You kill people, Lyra!” Sophia shouted, her voice cracking with emotion.

Lyra met Sophia's eyes, confusion and something darker flickering across her face.

“Yeah. And honestly? It doesn't bother me.”

"You're ending lives!" Sophia insisted desperately.

Lyra crushed her cigarette into the dirt, standing up slowly, eyes hardened with defiance.

"Sophia, I've never felt truly alive. This world, this life—it's hell for me. The only things that ever make me feel alive are money and.....” She paused, her voice dropping softly.

Sophia held her breath, waiting anxiously for Lyra's next words.

“Alex,” Lyra whispered.

“Alex?" Sophia repeated, stunned. Her voice barely more than a whisper.

"Yes, Alex,” Lyra admitted, eyes blazing with intense passion.

"I need you to know—I love Alex. He's everything to me. And yes, he's your ex-husband, which makes me grateful, honestly. It means I don't have to compete with you."

“What?” Sophia gasped, reeling from shock. She'd never imagined Lyra—who once openly despised Alex- could possibly feel this way.

"You actually like him?"

sighed deeply, almost

like him, Sophia. I'm completely insane for him. He's my entire world. I'd

voice hardened into chilling menace. “I have to go. I need to find a

to a deadly

entire Montclair family straight to hell. I'll bury them so deep, nothing will survive-not their children, not their grandchildren.

Lyra. Without another word, Lyra stormed to

failed to catch

murmured, her voice weak and

Alex had grown distant, and everyone around her was suddenly falling

she had no

hope she could cling to was Laura—Laura, who might still be willing to save Alex in

heavy and burdened, her thoughts

his room,

Rudiyard's bed was a new patient—Laura. She was dressed in hospital clothes, clearly just

Laura snapped, her voice sharp and full of

friend. Next time, I'll kill

"Laura, please. Can you let

you blind?

face when begged him to save my husband! Who the hell does

will save Rudiyard?" Sophia pleaded, quickly changing

her face. She hadn't

was gone, Rudiyard might follow shortly

you hurt him now, your husband is as good

lip in frustration. "If I help him, can you guarantee he'll save Rudiyard?" Sophia leaned forward, eyes sincere and unyielding. "I promise you, Alex

Sophia's face.

into Sophia's face. Sophia gasped,

you really think I'd be that stupid?"

already mine-tucked

to tear him apart, piece by piece.

he'll beg, and in the end,

to save his

bastard spared, you better cough up something worth

heart pounding furiously, stared back at

twisted into

beautiful and a

a man

heir to the

Mountclairs want a marriage

and he's