Chapter 710

"So this is your idea of kindness? Not giving a damn about how I feel, and trying to cripple my friend in the process?"

Candida's voice was icy. "If that's what you call kindness... then your kindness is terrifying."

She didn't waste words demanding explanations for broken promises or passionate declarations made in better days. Love, once gone, leaves those promises as empty as blank paper.

Her gaze was fixed on Karl-cold, devoid of even the faintest trace of feeling. There was only the chill you'd reserve for someone you couldn't stand.

"Karl, I never owed you anything. If anything, you're the one who owes me. So today, let's call it even."

With that, she turned to Joshua. "Go ahead."

Joshua stepped forward.

Karl watched him approach and let out a scornful laugh. "You think you can take me on?"

have stood a chance.

face. He grabbed the hilt of the knife still stuck in Karl's hand, a cruel, predatory smile twisting his lips. With a

broke out

gritted his teeth and

his shin —Joshua had

buckled; he dropped, kneeling on the hard

a second to recover. He landed a

a man in the face, but Joshua seemed to take special pleasure in doing just that. He pressed his cheap, battered sneaker into Karl's

enough," Joshua called out, glancing back. "If I knock him

burned hotter

Karl-who'd grown up having

pinning his face to

caught dead in.

here he was, crushed beneath someone so beneath him, with everyone watching. The

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