When the Family 213

Finished

“You’re really going to accuse me based on that?” Jean’s eyes were like sharpened blades, the edge in her gaze cold enough to slice through steel. “Is this the level of a Secret Service commander?”

“Jean!” Queenie snapped, her jaw clenched so tightly it distorted the line of her face.

This girl-

She was even sharper than expected. Unflinching, defiant, completely unlike the usual suspects Queenie had interrogated.

The realization made Queenie’s expression settle into something darker, calmer.

Then, she let out a low chuckle. “Still pretending, huh?”

“No matter,” she said with a glint in her eyes, cold and mocking. “In a moment… you’ll tell the truth.”

She pulled out the incense burner she’d prepared in advance and carefully placed it on the wooden table between them.

Her movements were delicate, precise.

A long, slender stick of incense was already set in the center of the burner.

With a swift flick, Queenie lit it.

The moment the tip began to glow, pale gray smoke curled upward, its scent instantly filling the air–an odd mix of cool sandalwood tainted by something chemical, like a faint trace of paint thinner.

Jean wrinkled her nose and instinctively leaned back.

But then something even stranger happened-

Behind Queenie, the massive wall painting–the haunting ink–drawn eye–shifted.

Barely. Almost imperceptibly.

But it moved.

eyes

the black, bottomless pupil, a swirling vortex of shadow seemed

ink anymore. It was

energy began dragging

Her face emptied of emotion. Her limbs wouldn’t

had been cut, yet somehow still bound by something

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Chapter 213 Nearly Fooled

Seeing this, Queenie knew-

It had begun.

the

Queenie’s voice rang out, clear

Finished

slowly. Then she turned her head toward Queenie

was the spiky, sharp–tongued

she looked

curled

said smoothly, “are you a member of the Abyssal

Jean’s lips parted faintly.

Abyssal Choir…

words echoed in her mind. Her

thin and broken. “I…

that moment, Queenie’s heart surged with

Got you.

she had been lying.

had nearly fooled her–fooled all of Secret

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