Chapter 121

Chapter 121

Benedict hastily lowered the whip and gently helped Sophie up. "Sophie, are you alright? Can you hold on?"

Sophie remained motionless, her eyes tightly shut.

As Gabriel hurried over, wanting to check if he had been too harsh, Nolan sneered. “She is quite frail. She appears even more delicate than the pampered legitimate daughter of your family."

His tone dripped with sarcasm. "How can she faint after a mere twenty lashes? I wonder how Serenity endured all fifty lashes back then"

His words seemed laced with anger.

He had his subordinates investigate what Eliza had experienced in the Duke's estate all these years. They found out a lot, but they couldn't find out the source of the injuries on her back that he saw outside the imperial study on the day he first met her,

And today, he finally understood that all those scars were from her own family.

He thought, 'What did she do wrong to deserve fifty lashes?

'Such a whip, used on a little girl, how could THEY do it?'

Nolan's heart was filled with rage. Even more so, he felt sorry for Eliza.

Even more so, he felt sorry for Eliza.

hint of sadness in her eyes. With a

back at

and as if she had seen through what he was thinking, she raised the corners of her lips and gave him a

matter. "Bring me a

Sophie, whom

Sophie felt speechless.

of water, Sophie, who had been lying on the ground for

She said, "Father, Brother..."

completely shifted to Eliza, Sophie didn't even want

a

don't care

to hold herself up and said

closed his eyes, as if he

am doing this to end

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this, Sophie suddenly

Benedict directly called two

from left and

strength of their grip made Sophie's

“No, Benedict, Don't

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