The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 601

Chapter 601

Talbot's gaze lingered on Citrine, and a twisted idea flickered across his face. His voice slithered through the room. "Originally, I planned for both of us to go down together tonight. But now, I can't help but pity you."

A manic smile split his lips. "I've changed my mind."

He jabbed a finger toward Raymond Carmichael and the others. "How about this: kill those five, and I'll let you walk free. What do you say?"

Citrine said nothing. Her eyes were as dark as a starless night.

Talbot pressed on, his tone almost coaxing. "Don't you hate them? If not for them, would you have been tortured half to death on Mirage Cay?"

"Come on, be good. Kill them, and I'll let you live."

Watching her murder her own family seemed far more entertaining than simply killing her himself.

Expectation flickered in Talbot's eyes.

listened in horror, piecing together the fragments of Citrine's suffering a horror they'd never truly imagined before. Beaten on Mirage Cay,

his daughter bullied, then later lying motionless in a hospital bed. But hearing

a monster, but one thing he said rang true: every

her sooner, if only they'd protected

hated them, who

over Raymond like a tidal

better off; shame kept

the companionship he'd craved. She'd helped Manley Carmichael, once lost in despair, stand tall again and find hope. Even Travis Carmichael, who'd been reckless and wayward, had

the family's lucky

and yet every one of them had failed her. If time could turn back, they would have moved

knew life offered no

Carmichaels were

were already slick with

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