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She knew she had crossed him tonight; he would really kill her.
But she didn’t want to die.
Suppressing her terror, she gripped the knife tighter and stabbed him again and again, harder each time.
“Bitch!”
Hudson’s eyes bulged as he raged and clawed at her. But as the blood poured from his wounds, his attacks weakened; his blows came slower and softer, his voice fading.
Eventually he collapsed to the floor, utterly still.
“Die! Die!”
Elsa kept stabbing him frantically.
After a long time she trembled and reached out to check for a pulse.
He had no breath left.
His eyes, however, remained wide open.
Clearly, he died clutching rage.
“Ah!”
Seeing those bulging eyes, Elsa screamed uncontrollably. This was the first time she had killed with her own hands-her heart was in chaos.
Her hand suddenly shook and the knife clattered heavily to the floor.
She scrambled backward several steps, keeping distance from Hudson’s body.
But after the brief terror passed, an indescribable satisfaction rose inside her.
Those who bullied her deserved no mercy.
Hudson tormented her; she had taken his life.
She would never let Lily have it easy either.
“Hudson, you deserved to die! Die!”
Elsa lifted her chin high; her small, blood-smeared face held a clear, cold resolve.
After so many years as his wife, she knew some of his secrets.
She knew he was one of the founders of Miye and had the inner boss’s trust.
If the lunatics behind Miye found out Hudson had died at her hands, they would never let her live in peace.
Of course, she’d thought about framing Lily or James.
But pinning it on them wasn’t easy-one wrong move and it could backfire.
She decided instead to get rid of the body without anyone knowing.
Hudson had brutalized her; she was bleeding between her legs, her lip was split, and her body was marked with wounds-she couldn’t cleanly dispose of his corpse by herself.
After a moment’s thought she resolved to call her biological father for help.
She didn’t bother dressing. She crawled into the living room, grabbed her phone, and dialed Jimmy’s number.
She called several times, but no one answered.
A bad feeling prickled at her. She quickly called Jonah, Jimmy’s most trusted lieutenant.
Jonah answered.
The moment the call connected she blurted, “Jonah, are you with my father? Please-put my father on the phone.”
“Elsa…”
Jonah’s voice was thick with anger and helplessness. “He… he’s been jailed. He’s been sentenced to death; the execution’s in a month.”
“What?!” Elsa practically screamed. “Jonah, you’re joking, right? How could my father be jailed? That’s not funny-there’s no way he’d get the death penalty.”
She shook her head hard, unable to accept it.
Jimmy wielded considerable power in the underworld, and he was always crafty-there was no way he’d be quietly caught by the police. She wanted to believe Jonah was lying.
She would rather believe Jonah was lying.
“Elsa, calm down,” Jonah said with a heavy sigh. “I wish I were joking, but the truth is what it is. We can’t save Jimmy.”
From Jonah’s next words Elsa learned what had happened.
Jimmy had been imprisoned before for intentionally injuring someone. After he was released he’d become even more ruthless, and he’d grown more cautious in his operations.
But James was more ruthless still. He obtained the evidence of Jimmy’s murders and helped the police corner him.
If Jimmy had fled, even with the murder evidence in police hands they might not have been able to touch him. But now he was in custody-there was no escape.
“Bitch-this is all Lily’s fault!” Elsa spat.
Elsa knew why James had moved against Jimmy: he must have discovered the times Jimmy helped her harm Lily.
If not for Lily, her biological father would have remained her greatest asset. Lily had already put her birth mother in prison; now she’d caused her father to be condemned to death. Elsa vowed she would never let Lily go unpunished.
“I’ll make that bitch suffer worse than death-I’ll avenge my father!” she cried.
Elsa didn’t truly love Jimmy. She’d mostly treated him as a useful tool. But she knew Jonah’s loyalty to Jimmy ran deep-they were brothers-in-arms. With Jimmy gone, Jonah would take over his power base.
People in their world lived by a code of loyalty; with Jonah’s temperament, he would avenge Jimmy.
If she pinned all the blame on Lily, Jonah would help her make Lily pay a terrible price.
“Don’t worry, Elsa. We brothers won’t let Jimmy die in vain,” Jonah promised. The steel in his voice grew colder. “James got Jimmy sentenced to death-we’ll make him pay, even if it kills us.”
“No need to kill James,” Elsa said, her tone chilling. “The cruelest revenge isn’t killing him outright. It’s making him watch his loved ones die while he’s helpless.”
“Jonah, you heard about Lily’s pregnancy, right?”
“Mm.”
When he acknowledged it, she continued, “Lily’s not just pregnant-she’s carrying twins.”
“If we can make Lily and her babies die in front of James, that will hurt him far more than killing him directly.”
Jonah’s hands were stained with blood; he knew well how to wound a man where it hurt most. He nodded in agreement. “Elsa, Jimmy is gone. You’re his only blood. From now on, my men and I swear to die for you.”
With Jonah’s vow, Elsa lifted her chin even higher.
Her face still bled from the wounds, and with her hard expression she looked fierce- intimidating and remote, almost regal.
She picked up the bloodstained clothes from the floor and slipped them on, then issued a cool command. “Jonah, bring a few trusted men over. Help me deal with a corpse. And as for Lily… the sooner she’s gone, the better.”
Of course she wouldn’t simply stab Lily the way she had killed Hudson.
Now she had only Simon left; Lily had shamelessly stolen Simon’s heart.
She intended to force Simon to make a choice.
She would make him personally send Lily to her death.
How ironic-Lily’s beloved man ultimately chooses Elsa, yet Elsa would still make him consign Lily to death. Delightful.
Lily was destined to be Elsa’s defeated foe; Elsa would ensure she died with no peace.
Lately James returned to the Luke family estate to be with Lily as soon as he got off work.
But today his friend Jetson had returned to the country; James went to give him a welcome and stopped by the Flora Club.
They’d known each other for years-back when Jetson frequently socialized with him before the accident that left James in the vegetative state he once escaped.