bChapter /bb109 /b

Alba frozeb, /bhis fists clenching instinctively “Yeah, I know her.”

“What’s the deal between Henry and Madelyn?”

Alex stayed at for a long moment before finally saying “She’s had a tough life. Turns out these monsters, Dominic and Alice, knew Madelyn wasn’t their biological daughter. So, tiny sold her off

Fryderyk’s eyes narrowed. “They know all along that A wasn’t their biological daughter?”

Caleb had indeed reached out to Alex, offering to aman

to arrange a jobs for his wife and help cure his daughter’s disease, even covering the expenses.

Caleb wanted him to make Henry suffer, to force him to confess everything he’d done,

But before Alex could get much out of him, Henry escaped. The police caught Alex and dragged him to the station

“Henry paid 1 thousand dors for ten year old Madelyn, iming he wanted a daughter to take care of him in his old age. Then I saw his livestream on some app, where he was calling her his childbride.

“At first, his viewers sent tokens, asking him to buy her pretty dresses. But then it escted that he started demanding she wear sery outfits and forced her to dance.

Jackson mmed the table in fury. “Bastard! He should’ve been beaten to death on the spot!”

Fryderyk’s face darkened. “Keep going.”

Recalling the incident, Alex still felt a chill. “I was ready to call the police and had all the evidence. But Madelyn acted faster. She stormed into the kitchen, grabbed a cleaver, and went straight for Henry’s leg. If I hadn’t shown up in time, she would’ve killed him.”

The scene from that day was still vivid in Alex’s mind.

A girl in a floral dress stormed into the kitchen, cleaver in hand. She dropped to her knees in one swift motion and brought the de down without hesitation.

Henry let out a blood–curdling scream, copsing to the ground. Her eyes were bloodshot as she raised the cleaver again, aiming for his neck.

If Alex had been oven a secondte, Henry would’ve been dead.

“You don’t understand. When I pulled Madelyn off him, I happened to catch a glimpse of her back… Back then, Alex had been angry, but bhe /bhadn’t been bthat /bemotional until he became a father bhimself /b

His voice choked as he fought back tears. “Her back was covered in a massive burn scar. It was ugly, raw, and heartbreaking.

“Later, I found out that when Madelyn was seven, her house caught fire. The door was locked, trapping her binside/b. As she tried to escape, a pir crashed onto her back, pinning her down. Yet somehow, she managed to crawl out, fighting for her life.

“Dominic had taken out a hefty insurance policy on her, so you can imagine what that means”

Alex’s tone was calm, but the story he told was devastating

Fryderyk and Jackson’s faces turned pale, their throats tightening bas /bif they were choking. They couldn’t utter a single word.

To them, Aria had always beenposed, indifferent, and incredibly capable. Who could have imagined that her childhood was marked by such unimaginable suffering? Even staying alive had been a battle.

bFryderyk /bseemed to piece together Caleb’s motives for everything he had done. He chose not to press further and bshifted /bthe btopic /binstead, “Do byou /bbthink /bDominic and Alice had anything to do with Ania’s disappearance?”

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Alex shook bhis /bbhead/bb. /b“I bdon’t /bknhw.nut after she disappeare

The interrogation didn’t continue further, and Alex was temporarily detained.

Fryderyk went to Caleb and cald, “You’re behind this?

Caleb looked at his angly face and asked, “Any evidence?”

“No. So you can leave novy.

Caleb stood up and said, “Alex’s daughter has leukemia. I’ll help cure her from now on. Your won’t consider this matter evidence, right”

Fryderyk remained silent for a while and then said, “Fine.”