Chapter 335
I held out my hand as if I were a patient. As she prepared to check my pulse, I
noticed how different my hand was from those of the people in the slums. Their skin was dark and weathered; mine was pale.
She instantly looked up. When she saw me, it felt as if the air had frozen.
“Claire!” Kate lunged across the table to hug me.
Everyone turned to look in our direction.
Allen Ramsey also put down his stethoscope and looked over at me. “You’re back p>
It was as if they had been waiting for me all this time.
“Yes. I’m back to fight alongside you p>
My words made the wounded from the war cheer.
“We will take back our land p>
“Yes, we will p>
What I wanted wasn’t just to take back territory. I wanted peace for all of Bravenland, for the prosperous to help the less fortunate.
But everything had to wait until Lily was caught.
Just as we were all calming down from the excitement and I was helping Kate with some simple bandaging, Richard walked over. “Lily has been taken back to Hartwell. Let’s go back and see what she has to say p>
As I said goodbye to Kate and Allen Ramsey, I saw Allen holding Kate’s hand. I realized that in the face of hardship, they had come together.
Some people find their happy ending, while others just block each other.
Back at the prison in Hartwell, Lily was still receiving the highest level of treatment. Even in prison, her cell was a luxury suite.
She was sitting in the middle of the room, her hair in an elegant updo, smoking a cigar by herself. She looked every bit the part of a crime boss.
She wasn’t the least bit afraid of us.
When she saw me, she just smirked and continued to smoke her cigar.
“My dear brother Richard, who shares both my parents, actually siding with the child
of a mistress p>
e a contemptuous look
She gave me
before continuing her taunts. “But even with Richard on your side, you’ve fost Silas. If the condition for Silas’s engagement to Anna wasn’t a promise not to interfere in Bravenland’s affairs, do you really think you could have caught me p>
Her words were like knives, stabbing precisely into my chest.
“You have no more moves to make. Say whatever you want.” I
suppressed the small ripples
heart and stood before her, looking down on her. TM
In the face of her powerful aura, I actually felt a little intimidated, but I couldn’t let her see it.
“Do you know the real reason your mother and our father died p>
Lily suddenly stood up and moved very close to me.
Richard quickly pulled me away from her.
“Claire, don’t believe her. Guards, take her away p>
Richard seemed extremely anxious, but the man was his father too.
I was so sure that Harriet’s mother had killed my parents. How could there be a new
version of the story now?
As Richard shielded me, I pulled him back a step. “No matter the reason or who was involved, the dead can’t be brought back My purpose in lifë isn’t revenge p>
If I spent my life seeking revenge, there would be too many scores to settle.
I was better off living for myself.
For this country, for those who had suffered so much, I could be a better leader for them.
“What if the ones who killed our parents weren’t just Harriet’s parents, but also p>
Smack-
Richard slapped Lily across the face, and everything came to a sudden halt.