Chapter 4
“You hate me, don’t you?” Liora couldn’t help but speak, her voice trembling slightly. “Then why didn’t you leave me
behind?”
Carmen glanced at her coldly. “Yeah, I hate you. But right now, you’re still my Luna. I’m not like you, I wouldn’t stoop so low as to ignore someone’s life just to make a point.”
Liora’s heart clenched, as if something sharp had stabbed straight through it.
Liora opened her mouth, but nothing came out.
Robert, enraged by Carmen’s refusal to choose, suddenly shoved Evelynne toward the edge of the cliff.
“Pick one! Or I’ll throw them both off!”
Carmen’s eyes turned glacial. He took a step forward, voice low and threatening. “Robert, if you lay a finger on either of
them, I’ll make sure you wish you were dead.”
The standoff hung in tense silence, until the sound of sirens suddenly echoed from the distance.
Robert’s expression shifted. He hadn’t expected the Pack enforcers to arrive so quickly.
Gritting his teeth, he lunged forward, aiming a blade straight at Carmen’s heart.
“Carmen!”
Without thinking, Liora threw herself in front of him, taking the blow herself.
The blade sank into her shoulder. Blood gushed instantly, soaking through her clothes. She let out a muffled cry before
collapsing.
Carmen caught her in his arms, a flicker of panic flashing through his eyes. “Liora!”
Liora’s consciousness began to fade, and the only thing she could still hear was Carmen’s panicked voice.
She wanted to say something but no words came out.
Darkness swallowed her whole.
When she woke again, she found herself lying on the ground beside the pool.
Carmen stood in front of her, but instead of concern, his eyes were full of hatred.
“Liora,” he said coldly, “why did you stage that whole scene with the kidnappers? Did you really think I’d say ‘I love you’
because of it?”
Liora stared at him, stunned. She had no idea what he was talking about.
Carmen went on, voice sharp with accusation. “Evelynne told me everything. You planned the whole kidnapping with Robert just to hurt her. How could you be só vicious?”
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Her heart dropped.
It hit her then.
Somehow, Evelynne had pulled some kind of trick and twisted the truth, but she’d actually convinced Carmen that it was
all her scheme.
“It wasn’t me. I didn’t…”
But before she could finish, Carmen cut her off, his gaze growing even colder. “I know you’re spoiled. You always pull
these stunts to get under my skin so as to get my attention. But you crossed a line. You can mess with me all you want,
but not with Evelynne. She’s everything to me.”
Then, without another word, he turned to his warriors and ordered them to tie Liora to a heavy stone and sink her into the
pool.
“Car… Carmen… it wasn’t… me…”
But her protests were drowned by the icy rush of water engulfing her body. The heavy stone dragged her straight to the
bottom of the pool.
Her breathing grew more and more labored. The world before her eyes was blurring into darkness.
Just as she was about to lose consciousness, Carmen finally ordered someone to pull her out of the water.
But she barely had time to breathe before they shoved her back under again.
Over and over, they drowned her. The pain was unbearable. It felt endless.
She didn’t know how many times they repeated it. By the end, soaked and shivering, she was dragged ashore like a dying
fish.
Carmen crouched down and grabbed her by the chin, forcing her to look at him.
His voice was frigid. “Remember this, Liora. If you ever hurt Evelynne again, I won’t let you off this easy.”
With that, he turned and walked away, his warriors following close behind, never once glancing back at her.
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