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"

her mother. Eliza had suspected for a while that Sophie was Gabriel's illegitimate daughter, but

new

of them in Hasen City. Either Zoie hid her identity very well-or she wasn't

leaned forward, voice sharp. "When did you steal my mother's body? And where is it now?" "Over twenty days ago... Father had me whipped-fifty lashes. I was furious. So I summoned

hand trembled with fury. "You vile, disgusting creature. You don't

so she desecrated the dead? Even animals

decency.

struck her again and again, her voice rising with each blow. "Where is she? Where's

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Chapter 195

Say it. Tell me where my

it is time. I was captured. The body.

him just one day before she'd been kidnapped. If she hadn't ordered Tina to snatch her

tightened. "Who

been there. Since I

and the others! Eliza's

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

wasn't the only one Eliza had already

Nonus was

recovered Caroline's body, Sophie had to

do you contact him?"

where he is. But when I

body began to twitch. Her limbs

drug

chill. "So they come when you need them, do they?...That makes things easier." With a plan now

sent a

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

me

you missed me."