Rufus' POV:

The scene on the crystal ball shocked me to my core.

I actually doubted Alina once, but Sylvia kept telling me that no matter how menacing a person was, they would never cross the bottom line of killing their own parents. She believed that Alina was no exception and that she wouldn't go as far as to murder her father. After all, Leonard had raised her, and he loved her so much.

But now, Alina's true colors were revealed. The cruel side of her personality had now been exposed to us.

Sylvia was too shocked to say anything, and her body trembled while she sobbed. I could tell that she was on the edge of losing control.

I held her tight in my arms, afraid that she would lose control and hurt herself.

The truth was too cruel, even for me. I never thought Alina would be so ruthless to the point that she was willing to murder her own father by stabbing his body multiple times with a dagger. Even though she was weeping afterward, she probably did that because she was afraid of getting blamed.

dying of blood loss. Alina could have saved him, but she did nothing. She only watched Leonard slowly die until

hold her closer, but she pushed me away

and pulled her close to me again although she was struggling to break

that she would kill Alina. Darkness brewed in her eyes, and her body felt a lot colder than

of my arms. Her voice got mixed with the sound

because I was worried that she would get hurt. Thus, she eventually managed to break free from my

that she was about to sprint through the door,

kept trying to push me away. At the same time, crows were gathering outside the window, wanting to fly inside. Sylvia grew even more infuriated when

come back to her senses by calling her name over and over, but it didn't work, not this

screamed as she kept attacking me, but

take her blows passively while making sure she didn't hurt herself. In

into the

then, Sylvia grabbed me by my

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