The Lady Nun Vows Revenge by Caroline Rowland

The Silent 195

Chapter 195

Back inside the pocket farm, Eliza marched straight to the iron cage and dragged Sophie out."

She'd been lying low, trying to recover some strength and wait for a chance to escape. What she hadn't expected was for Eliza to return so soon-like a lioness unleashed, radiating fury,

Tm going to kill you, Eliza growled, then slapped her hard across the face. "This is your last chance. Tell me where is my mother's body?"

Sophie coughed, struggling against her grip, then grinned through the pain. "Dream on. You can kill me right now and I still

wouldn't tell you"

Caroline's body was her last card, her only bargaining chip for survival. There was no way she'd hand that over easily. No she was going to make Eliza beg for

it.

Fine, Eliza said coldly. "Then let's pick up where we left off last night."

She hauled Sophie up to the second floor and forced her down on the preparation table, tying her tightly before shoving a pre-prepared dose of poison straight into her mouth.

Sophie coughed again, eyes wide with alarm. "What did you just make me take?!"

Last night's torment had already left its mark. And now, as the drug slid down her throat, a chilling tremor passed through her entire body. Her instincts screamed at her-this wasn't just a sedative.

You think if you keep your mouth shut long enough, I'll run out of options? Eliza stared down at her, cold as a butcher above a slab of meat. "Don't worry. By the end of today, you will talk."

It didn't take long. Sophie's body began to tremble. Her vision blurred. She felt her thoughts slipping away into the dark. But her eyes remained open. Her pupils unfocused. She lay still-slack, obedient.

Tell me your name," Eliza ordered.

"Sophie."

"Who are your parents?"

"Gabriel... and Zoie Case"

for a while that Sophie was Gabriel's illegitimate daughter,

new

I've never heard of them in Hasen City. Either Zoie hid her

me whipped-fifty lashes. I was furious. So I summoned Nonus Ophidian. I told him to dig up your mother's body so I could flog

last. Eliza's hand trembled with fury. "You vile, disgusting creature.

living, so she desecrated the dead? Even animals

decency.

struck her again and again, her voice rising with each blow.

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Chapter 195

me where

it is time. I was captured. The body. it's still with

froze. That meant Sophie had sent him just one day before she'd been kidnapped. If she hadn't ordered Tina

chest tightened. "Who is

been there.

others! Eliza's eyes

he part of a group? Could it be that Sophie wasn't

maybe... she wasn't the only one Eliza had

Nonus was

Caroline's body, Sophie had to die.

do you contact him?" Eliza

But when I need them... they just

began to twitch. Her

drug was wearing

come when you need them, do they?...That makes things easier." With

she sent a message

Gilbert arrived at her courtyard, whistling as he strolled in. "What's the rush? Couldn't wait

me

you missed me."