The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 1357

Lucy’s hand, gently caressing Bruce’s cheek, suddenly stiffened. She turned her head to look at Susan, catching the resolute expression on her daughter’s face.

Lucy’s breath caught, tears spilled over her lashes, and she clenched her teeth with a fierce intensity. Finally, the grip of her jaw slowly relaxed.

Her face was ashen, void of any color, a solitary tear traced her cheek. With a raspy voice she spoke to Susan, “You’ve been a good girl, a real good girl. From now on, you gotta take care of yourself.”

With those final words, Lucy summoned all her strength and hurled herself at a nearby pillar.

There was a sickening crack, her head split open, blood gushing. She collapsed on the spot, lying in a growing pool of crimson. After a couple of short gasps, she was gone, not even a whisper of a last word remained.

Susan watched in horror as her mother died in front of her.

Lucy lay there, eyes still open, as if fixed on Susan in her final moment.

The dam of emotions Susan had been holding back burst, and she crumbled to the floor, sobbing uncontrollably.

It was a cry of confirmation, a realization

and their money; she was nothing to

remained unwavering in her loyalty, choosing to follow him in death. They never

was as if nothing had changed.

so fiercely, and the world around her plunged

hired a professional funeral service

kept her promise, burying Lucy and Bruce together, their ashes mingled in a single

urn.

then let their remains be forever intertwined, as she had wished.

concluded. Susan stood before her parents’ headstone, the afternoon

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Scorching and relentless.

clenched tight as she whispered to the stone, “The pain that woman caused me, she’s going to pay it