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.

froze, eyes flying

of the

wasn’t ink anymore. It

cold, endless energy began dragging her

face emptied of emotion. Her

frozen, unmoving. Like a puppet whose strings had

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Chapter 213 Nearly Fooled

Seeing this, Queenie knew-

It had begun.

was the perfect

Queenie’s voice rang

Finished

her head toward Queenie with

was the spiky, sharp–tongued

she looked empty. Quiet.

lips curled in

smoothly, “are you a

Jean’s lips parted faintly.

Abyssal Choir…

in her mind. Her

Her voice stuttered, thin and

moment, Queenie’s

Got you.

she had been lying.

had nearly fooled her–fooled all of

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