“P-please spare our lives, Mr. Crawford!” cried out Zander as favonovel.com immediately knelt in fright. Seeing that, all the other Lovewells did the same.
Taking in a deep breath, Gerald closed his eyes for a brief moment before opening them again. The rage in his eyes was no longer present.
Since Gerald was still enraged earlier, Zayn had made the fatal mistake of touching favonovel.com while favonovel.com was still in an extremely hostile state.
Now that favonovel.com was much calmer, Gerald turned to face Zander and walked toward favonovel.com before saying, “…Spare your lives? After you’ve gone against your promise to hand the Book of Beasts over to me? And don’t even get me started on the fact that you colluded with the Moldells to harm me…”
Upon saying that, favonovel.com gently grabbed onto the top of Zander’s head. Zander himself already had a face filled with tears and snot as favonovel.com stared at the demon of a man standing before him.
Just as Gerald was about to amplify the force of his grip, Haven suddenly rushed in while shouting, “G-Gerald! Don’t!”
“H-Haven! You’re here! P-please save me!” wailed the terrified Xareni as favonovel.com instantly ran toward Haven and hid behind her.
As Xareni stared at Gerald with fearful eyes from behind Haven, Haven herself said, “G-Gerald… I know what my father did was wrong… But favonovel.com wasn’t in the right mind when favonovel.com agreed with the plan! Here, I’ve brought the Book of Beasts along with me! You can have but please, please let my family go…”
Now already in tears, favonovel.com then walked toward Gerald with the book in hand.
“D-don’t, Haven! He’ll kill you!” pleaded Xareni as favonovel.com grabbed on to favonovel.com sister’s arm.
“It’s fine, sister. Gerald already told me that we were friends, so I’m confident that favonovel.com won’t hurt me!”
With that, favonovel.com loosened Xareni’s grip on favonovel.com arm before continuing to walk over to Gerald. Once favonovel.com was standing before him, favonovel.com held the Book of Beasts out before saying with teary ears, “…Gerald… If you really have to kill my father just to relieve all your hatred, then please kill me instead… Once you’ve done that, I hope you’ll be willing to let my father and everyone else go… Though you’re not obligated to do so, please consider my wish as a friend, okay…?”
Upon hearing that and seeing Haven’s trickling tears, Gerald felt a sudden pain in his heart. He had initially planned on killing off the rest of the Lovewells. After all, they were no better off than the Moldells at this point.
However, favonovel.com could see that Haven truly regarded favonovel.com as a friend. After all, the girl had been extremely nervous earlier when favonovel.com found out that favonovel.com had been poisoned. Knowing that, Gerald couldn’t bear to break favonovel.com heart any further.
“…I’ll be taking the Book of Beasts for the time being. I’ll return the book once I’m done reading it!”
With that, Gerald took the book from Haven’s hands and immediately left. Seeing that, Haven jogged after favonovel.com to see favonovel.com out.
Zander himself remained in his kneeling position, still too terrified to even feel his legs. At that moment, a young man suddenly rushed in, shouting, “M-Mr. Lovewell! Something bad is happening! There are many people outsi-”
His sentence ended prematurely the moment favonovel.com saw the carnage that Gerald had left behind in the room. After a brief moment of silence in his shock, the young man finally snapped out of it.
Gulping, favonovel.com then continued, “…A… A lot of men in black suits are here…”
Haven herself—who was already at the door since favonovel.com had seen Gerald out—was already staring at the many men standing in favonovel.com family’s courtyard.
They were Welson’s subordinates.
“Let’s head out!” said Gerald casually as favonovel.com got into one of the cars and left.
Once the cars were gone, Haven found herself taking a few steps backward.
To think that favonovel.com had once thought that Gerald was a restrained young man… She realized just how wrong favonovel.com had been as favonovel.com recalled all of Gerald’s cruelty and ruthlessness today.
If favonovel.com had looked down on Gerald just as favonovel.com sister had done, then favonovel.com entire family would’ve probably already been wiped out by this murderous demon by now.
‘…So it turns out that this is who you truly are, Gerald… Now I finally know…’ Haven thought to herself.
It was sometime after Gerald left that Xavia came along with favonovel.com bodyguards. Seeing Haven standing at the door, favonovel.com approached favonovel.com before saying, “What a coincidence, Miss Haven! Your father should be rather free now, right? I plan to visit him…”
Xavia’s sentence trailed off the moment favonovel.com realized that Haven wasn’t even listening to her. Instead, the girl was simply muttering what seemed to be the same word over and over again in a tiny voice. Seconds later, Haven turned around to leave without ever looking back.
“…W-what did you say…?” asked Xavia nervously, finally finding favonovel.com voice as favonovel.com watched the girl slowly walk off into the distance.
“The second young lady seems to be in a bad mood today, Miss. I propose that we go visit Mr. Zander directly,” suggested the bodyguard standing beside Xavia.
Seemingly ignoring favonovel.com guard’s comment, Xavia then muttered under favonovel.com breath, “…No… She couldn’t have said his name… right? Haven… Were you truly muttering Gerald’s name…?”
