“Watch her closely. If not, your sister will end up like Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery.”
The man’s words were filled with blatant threats.
Yorick nodded and went back.
When he got back, he saw that everything in the house had been smashed and thrown all over the place.
Lana was throwing a fit while Fabian was watching at one side indifferently.
Lana barged over to Yorick when she saw him. “Yorick Johnson, tell me, who’s that man?”
“It’s best if you don’t ask. If you don’t want to bring any trouble to yourself, you should go back to F Country,” said Yorick.
“Hmph! How interesting! Even the leader of Stygian Johnson Gang has someone he fears?” Lana touched her swollen and bleeding lip. “Then I have to see who this man is!”
Lana looked at the figure that was reflected behind her and felt her heart skip a beat.
She turned her head slowly, and immediately, Kendrick’s handsome yet terrifyingly grim face was reflected in her eyes.
The man was standing with his back against the light. His very being was exerting a tremendous amount of pressure on them, as if there was an iceberg on their shoulders. At this moment, he was emitting a terrifying aura.
Lana felt her heart skip a beat, but she quickly calmed down and remained cocky. “Kendrick, did you kidnap me? Let me go now!”
Her tone was as cocky as usual. Of course, she knew she would not be able to fool Kendrick anymore as he had remembered everything.
Lana looked at the emotionless man and lifted her head as much as she could.
“Kendrick, you’re such a smart man, yet don’t you know who’s more compatible with you? Eveline’s not a match for you. As long as you stay with me and agree to be my man, I’ll let you experience the real joy of being a man—”
Slap! Kendrick directly slapped Lana across her face.
“Ah!”
Lana yelped in pain, yet Kendrick still had no emotions on his face.
However, the colder and calmer he was, the more one would feel that this was the calm before the storm.
Lana did not know how many slaps she had received these past few days. Her face felt hot, and she started tasting blood in her mouth again.
Kendrick had exerted so much strength into that slap. It was clear how much he despised her and wanted to chop her into pieces.
Before Lana could register the pain, Kendrick yanked her up by the collar.
The man’s close-up features made Lana’s heart throb.
However, the coldness in Kendrick’s eyes woke her up, and at that moment, she was petrified.
“Kendrick, don’t do anything stupid. I did manipulate you when you lost your memories, but when you almost died on the ship, I was the one who saved you—”
Slap!
“Ah!”
Those were the cigarettes she smoked and also the ones she gave Kendrick back then. However, the ones she gave Kendrick was added with something else.
When Kendrick smacked the cigarette box on her face suddenly, Lana knew what was going on.
“What did you put in the cigarettes?” Kendrick asked coldly.
Lana did not dare answer. She could only pretend to cough from shock.
Kendrick did not have time to beat around the bush with her, so he walked to the other side coldly.
When Lana saw this, she lifted her leg to kick Naomi who was playing dead.
“Get up! Bite the ropes off for me!” she ordered in a low voice.
However, Naomi continued to play dead. She thought Kendrick was only going to seek revenge on Lana. She only followed Lana into the car groggily after she drank too much. She was a victim here.
“Naomi!” Lana shrieked. When she was about to kick her again, she felt cold liquid pouring from her head to her toes.
“Ah!” Lana yelled.
Naomi bolted up abruptly since Kendrick was also pouring the liquid on her.
Then, when they took a whiff, they realized it was not ice water. It was gasoline!
Lana and Naomi were being drenched in gasoline!
“Kendrick, Kendrick, please let me go! Let me go now!” Lana was horrified, her face turning red and white simultaneously.
Kendrick towered over her with no emotions in his eyes.
“I want you to get a taste of how my in-laws died.”
“What?” Lana widened her eyes. “How dare you, Kendrick?! I’m Miss Johnson of the Stygian Johnson Gang! If something happens to me, my brother will never forgive you! You—”
“Do you think I’m scared of your brother?”
“…”
Lana was stunned. As she looked into Kendrick’s calm eyes, she knew Kendrick was not scared.
This man was not afraid of anything.
The only thing he was scared of was losing Niamh.
At this moment, Lana saw Kendrick taking out a matchbox from his pocket and reaching out for a match.
Lana backed away in horror. However, she still threatened him arrogantly, “Kendrick, do you really have the guts to kill me? If I’m dead, you’ll be finished! Do you know what I added to your cigarettes? Slow- acting poison!”
Slow-acting poison?
Kendrick’s eyes darkened.
Lana laughed while feeling pleased with herself. “You can only treat your confusion and delusions by continuing to smoke the cigarettes I gave you. If not, the poison will seep into your bones slowly, and eventually, you’ll be tortured to death by the poison!
“I can also tell you that Adam was the one who created this slow-acting poison that has the ability to control people. There’s no cure for it at the time being! You have to depend on the cigarettes, or else you’ll die! So, are you still going to keep me tied up? If I die, you’ll die too!”
Lana’s cockiness triggered Kendrick to strike the match. “Since I won’t be able to continue living, then I’ll send you off first.”
“…”
“No! This has nothing to do with me!” Naomi finally said something, “Kendrick, no, Mr. Waldburg, it has nothing to do with me! This is between you and Lana. Why do you have to involve me in this? Please let me go! Let me go now!”
Lana kicked Naomi angrily. “Are you going to just think of yourself at a time like this? Naomi, don’t forget how you treated Eveline back then!”
Naomi was fuming as she lifted her leg and kicked Lana. “I was only carrying out your orders! Lana Johnson, you’re killing me!”
“Naomi, how dare you kick me! You…” Lana yelled angrily when suddenly, she saw a spark from the corner of her eyes.
She lifted her head and saw that Kendrick had already lit a match.
“Lana, my in-laws are waiting for you. Remember to repent your sins when you see them.”
“N-No!”
“No!”
Lana was so terrified that she started blabbering. In the next second, she saw Kendrick throwing the match on a stack of wooden boxes on the side.
It was as if the boxes had been doused in gasoline as well. The tiny flame on the match suddenly grew and started spreading all over the place.
However, before the fire could approach them, Lana and Naomi were scared frozen. Cold sweat started to form on both of their bodies.
Kendrick looked coldly at Lana. At this moment, she was so scared that her face was completely white.
“Lana, I won’t let you die just like this.”
Even more intense flames were burning behind his sharp eyes.
“You used me to kill my in-laws and caused me to never be able to be together with Nia. So, I want you to slowly walk toward death while you’re in fear. I want you to experience how it feels to be framed and tortured.”
“…”
After he said that, Lana saw his tall and slender figure walking further and further away without any concerns until he had walked out of the abandoned factory.
The fire was getting closer to them, and it felt like the heat was going to get into contact with their faces at any second.
Naomi yelled at Lana in terror, “Lana, you dumb b*tch! You want to die, but I don’t!” She screeched, then yelled at the door, “Kendrick, don’t go! You have a chance to get back together with Eveline because…”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.