Chapter 451

Seeing Everett charge toward her like a but seeing red ather had her los prosty pay

Luckily, her reflexes were quick. She sched

oger from the negre

and pressed it to Dorothy’s Throt

“Everett, take one more step and take Dorothy don

Everett’s eyes blazed with a bloodthirsty fury. At the sight of Dorothy, barely clinging tI primal desire to

flay Heather alive.

“Let her go!”

“Not a chance!” Heather tightened her grip on Dorothy’s neck, and the

closer, and Dorothy meets her maker”

Everett halted his advance abruptly, and his p

posse swiftly encircled Heather

s ignited with a

Kevin rushed in, took stock of the situation, and immediately tended to Karen and Abigail before

hospital

He knew Heather wasn’t escaping today.

hem whisked away to the

“Everett, even now, you’re still blinded by that tramp! Can’t you see what I’ve done for your Heathers

baugh w moved, the dagger sliced Dorothy’s skin, drawing fresh blood that stained the bl and

Heather’s hand

The pain seemed to jolt Dorothy back to consciousness

In a daze, she saw Everett standing before her.

Dorothy thought she was dreaming

Everett said in a cold and clipped voice, sending shivers down everyone’s spine. Let her go, and might

spare yo dies. I’ll show you a hell that makes death seem like mercy!”

Tve already tasted that hell! I’ve loved you so deeply. For the Lopez family, I took your mother’s place

and endured unspeakable violations! Do you know what it’s like to be stripped and dragged on the floor

by those men? Do you know the agony of being burned with cigarettes, of having bottles forced into

me? You don’t! But without me, your mother would have known that fate”

“Stop! This has nothing to do with Dorothy! Let her go. If you want revenge, take it out on me!” Everett

refused to engage with her trade. his gaze fixed solely on Dorothy

She lay there, motionless, covered in blood, with her clothes tom and barely providing cover. If not for

the faint rise and fall of her chest, it would be hard to tell if Dorothy was alive.

This was the Dorothy that Everett couldn’t bear to even scold.

“I want to hurt you too! But I can’t! Everett, I can’t bear it Heather screamed, tears streaming down her

face. Its all because of het, Dorothy! You won’t even look at me. Everett, if she’s gone, we can be

together”

“Don’t touch her Heather, whatever issues we have, we’ll settle them between us. Just let Dorothy gol

Everett was stem in his voice, hoping to calm crazy Heather.

He feared that in a moment of madness, she would plunge the dagger into Dorothy’s throat

“Settle this?” Heather looked up at him, her eyes filled with anger but even more with disappointment

and obsession. “Fine, then I want you to propose to me right here, right now on your knees!”