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Chapter 464 Cast Into the Fountain

“It hurts… it hurts so much…”

Mathilda struggled for a long while before her broken voice returned.

She thought that after James had already crushed her hand bones beneath his heel and allowed his men to slap her swollen face raw, he might finally let her go. But then she heard his voice again–cold, merciless, devoid of any trace of pity.

“Throw her into the fountain.”

Though the water hadn’t frozen with the coming of spring, it was still bitterly cold.

Mathilda feared the cold, and with her hand bleeding, the icy soak would be agony–worse than death itself.

If misfortune struck, it might leave her permanently weakened, perhaps even barren.

She couldn’t bear it. Snot and tears streaming, she begged, “James, I really know I was wrong. I… I just felt insecure. Lily stole Mom and Dad’s, and my brothers‘ love, I was afraid of being cast out. That’s why I played a

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few jokes on her. I had no evil intent, I swear. Please don’t throw me in. I can’t swim–if I’m tossed in, I’ll drown! You know I really can’t swim! I don’t want to die… I don’t want to die!”

Bodger and Mergan faltered, hesitation flickering in their

eyes.

They knew well she couldn’t swim.

What she had done was vile, beyond forgiveness. But she was still their blood sister. They couldn’t stand idly by and watch her die.

go too far! If she dies,

“Bodger. James.”

only comes up to her shoulders at most. She won’t drown. And the video made it clear–her so–called fall into the river, where she accused Lily of pushing her, was nothing

Lily into the freezing river for her sake, letting her

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in the icy water came back to Bodger

Mathilda.

they had spoken up,

the next moment of silence, his men grabbed

A shroud of icy water wrapped her, stabbing into her flesh, making

was only

Mathilda was finally dragged out–battered, shaking, sprawled on the ground like a gutted toad, her breath a mere thread–James

him to bring Lily over for dinner that night. The sun was already dipping;

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brothers bore bruises of their own, their faces marred

face toward them, sobbing breathlessly. “I was wrong. I shouldn’t have offended Lily. But if she hadn’t stolen my place, my life, I wouldn’t have suffered so much. She ruined me, and I just lashed out. I regret

her suffering after being

Mergan wavered now,

as their pity began