Chapter 4

Time passed minute by minute. The search parties had no news, and Elias completely lost patience.

"I heard from Fiona that you adopted a child from an orphanage."

My spine went rigid.

Elias raised his hand in signal. Someone dragged in a burlap sack with something struggling inside.

He picked up a steel pipe nearby, his expression vicious:

"Violet, last chance. If you don't tell me where Fiona is, this child won't make it."

"Jack!" My eyes instantly turned red. I lunged forward but was held back firmly.

Elias raised the steel pipe high and brought it down hard.

"No!!" My pupils contracted sharply. Everything went blood red, as if the pipe had struck my own body.

A whimper came from inside the sack. The person inside was beaten so hard they bounced up, then fell heavily and went still.

A pool of blood seeped from the opening.

"Ahhh!!"

I completely broke down. The whole world turned red.

The second blow was raised again.

"Stop! That's your child! That's your biological son!"

I was being dragged, screaming until my voice went hoarse.

Tears mixed with blood drops rolled down my face, my eyes full of desperate collapse.

Elias's hand holding the pipe paused:

"Violet, stop joking around. We agreed not to have children. Why lie to me about this?"

I couldn't care about anything else. I struggled and crawled to his feet, face covered in tears, begging:

"He really is your child. Jack really is your son... Please... let him go quickly, call a doctor, save him..."

Elias bent down and gripped my chin: "Be good. Tell me where Fiona is, and I'll let him go."

I shook my head desperately, tears flying: "I don't know! I really don't know! Let Jack go, please let him go!"

Elias's eyes suddenly turned cold. The second blow struck down hard.

A muffled grunt from the sack, then complete silence.

"Ah... no..."

I suddenly coughed up blood, my body convulsing violently.

The third blow, the fourth blow...

A full ten blows. The sack made no more sound.

"Jack..."

Watching the sack go still, the ground stained bright red with blood, I collapsed kneeling on the ground, my body rigid as if electrocuted, yet trembling uncontrollably.

I vomited another mouthful of blood, staining the ground in front of me red.

Elias walked forward, his black leather shoes stepping into the pool of blood, grinding hard on the sack:

"Violet, still won't talk?"

He stomped down hard again. The sound of bones shattering was clearly audible.

"Jack!!" I screamed in complete breakdown, crawling forward but held back firmly.

I roared hoarsely: "Elias, I curse you to never have children again in this lifetime!"

Elias's body jerked rigid.

Just then someone rushed in: "Alpha, we found Fiona."

Elias's hand stroking my hair paused: "Quick, tell me the exact location!"

He immediately stood up and rushed out without looking back.

Not long after Elias left, two people came in to snatch Jack from my arms.

I seemed to suddenly wake up, clutching Jack tightly: "What are you doing?"

"Alpha Elias ordered us to throw him in the ocean to feed the sharks."

Without mercy, they forcibly took Jack from my arms, stuffed him into the sack with disgust, and turned to leave.

"Jack!!!" I chased after them with a heart-wrenching scream, but was locked firmly in the cabin.

When Elias returned with Fiona, he only saw me slumped on the ground in a daze.

"You had someone throw Jack's body into the ocean to feed the sharks?"