Predatory Marriage (Web Novel)

Chapter 286 – Outcome (2)

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Cerdina gazed at Leah, smiling as if they had not just cornered her.

“You dare to defy me with such simple tricks?” She said quietly, and Leahs lips tightened with sudden anxiety. This was not what she had expected to happen. Cerdina was recovering much faster than she had planned.

And suddenly, Cerdinas eyes shifted away. The trembling Count Weddleton nearly fainted when her gaze fell on him.

“Father,” Cerdina said in a soft voice.

“Queen…Queen Mother,” Count Weddleton said quickly. “I had no choice, I have been threatened–!”

“And I do not want to do this,” Cerdina said. “But I have no choice…”

There was no more powerful sacrifice than a heart that beat with her own blood. She smiled faintly.

“Youre willing to die for your daughter, arent you?”

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Count Weddleton was not permitted any final words. There was no time for anyone to do anything. The black smoke lashed toward him in an instant and Ishakan yanked Leah into his chest.

The sound of flesh tearing filled the room and Leah squeezed her eyes shut, burying her face against him.

“Hahahaha…hahahaha…”

Laughing like a madwoman, Cerdina devoured her fathers heart before the eyes of the horrified, frozen wedding guests.

When it was gone, she licked the blood from her lips. The writhing black smoke stopped. There was a long moment of silence, and then the smoke billowed in all directions as Cerdinas body rose upward into the air, and darkness enveloped the whole palace.

Cerdina spoke.

Her voice sounded strange.

The black smoke filled the hall, and brushed the back of Ishakans hand.

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