Chapter 648

Elgin:

“That’s the monster who killed your sister,” I said quietly. “Do you want to die like

that too? Do you want the monster to eat you the way it ate Gina?”

The moment I started asking those questions, she clung to me harder, crying as she shook her head.

“Do you know why it ate Gina?” I asked.

She buried herself against me, trembling.

“Because she disrespected her daddy.”

As soon as I said it, I felt her small arms tighten around me even more.

“I’m sorry, Daddy,” she cried. “I won’t be rude to you anymore.”

I knew it was cruel.

But I felt like I had to do it if I wanted her to accept me and stop fighting me every few seconds.

I ran back to the car with Elara in my arms.

She was so terrified of the monsters that she clung to me tightly.

The way her little arms wrapped around my neck made something shift inside me.

For the first time in my life, I felt what it was like to be loved by a daughter.

I did not even know how to process that feeling.

I placed her inside the car, and the moment I climbed in, I saw my mother running down the trail with Lady Abigail close behind her.

“Mother!” I called, still standing beside the half-open driver’s door.

“Lord John is with the other warriors,” she shouted breathlessly as she rushed

toward us. “They escaped already. They’ll be fine, but I need to survive.”

I quickly opened the back door for her.

The second my mother climbed inside, Lady Abigail reached the car too.

“Take me with you,” Lady Abigail pleaded.

But before I could react, I heard the lock click.

My mother had locked the door from the backseat.

“Mom, what are you doing? Open the door,” I told her, turning toward her in shock. Instead of answering me immediately, my mother looked straight at Lady Abigail. “Well,” she said with a faint smirk, “you always believed that when a man dies, another man should take his place. But what happens when a woman dies?”

That was when I realized exactly what she was doing.

Lady Abigail was the only council leader standing in the way of my mother taking her position.

Lady Abigail’s eyes widened in horror.

She grabbed the handle and desperately tried to force the door open.

“You people are disgusting!” she screamed. “I should have never trusted any of you.

I don’t even know if I was ever on the right side!”

She kept screaming and pulling at the door.

Then suddenly, the monster swooped down.

Everything happened too fast.

All I saw were massive claws wrapping around Lady Abigail’s neck before she was ripped violently into half.

The creature flew off immediately, heading back toward the battlefield to attack more people.

Her headless body collapsed onto the ground.

Elara screamed.

My mother screamed too.

I threw the car into reverse, turned in haste, and sped away.

I settled back into my seat and checked on Elara.

She was badly shaken, covering her hands as she crie

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“Mother,” I said, turning toward her.

I knew she had questions too.

“Did the monster eat Madeline?”

The moment I asked, Elara lowered her hands and looked at me.

The fear in her eyes for her mother was almost painful to see.

At least one thing was clear.

Madeline had truly been a good mother.

I glanced at my mother, and she nodded as she understood.

“Yes. Because she refused to listen、

to you.” my mother replied. “You

the monster attacks

people

who hurt you.”

As soon as my mother said that, Elara started screaming.

“My mother is dead! My mother is dead! No!”

My mother pinched my shoulder sharply, making me realize we could not take too

much away from Elara at once.

She needed to believe there was still something left for her.

“Your mother is not dead,” my

mother snapped. “The monster only hurt her as a warning. So you’d better listen to your father and stop screaming like that.”

Elara slowly lowered her hands from her face.

I noticed the way she looked at my mother.

Like she wanted someone to hold her.

The moment Elara reached for her, my mother slapped her hands away.

“No. Sit properly in your seat,” my mother grunted as she leaned back and folded her arms across her chest.

I did not stop her.

My mother already had two granddaughters, Hailey and Hannah.

As long as she loved them, I did not care if she ignored Elara.

I only wanted Elara so I could show the world that my bloodline would not be left at

the mercy of a monster.

Elara listened to my mother and hid her face in her hands, sitting quietly in the corner of the seat.

At the same time, I turned toward my mother and mouthed,

“What happened over there?”

My mother gave me a slight nod before shifting closer to whisper in my ear.

“That monster didn’t even attack Madeline, even when it had her pinned down.”

The words made the hairs on the back of my neck rise.

What the fuck was going on?

Then Graham’s words hit me.

Madeline could summon the moon goddess.

I shook my head.

That was impossible.

If it were true, far worse things would not have happened to her.