The cold glint off Avery''s sses concealed the savage ferocity that bled through his wounded soul like a beast''s bloodlust.


    "Evadne... I know you despise me, but you can''t nder me like this..."


    "nder you? Avery, you''ve lost your mind. If you dared to do it, why won''t you own it?"


    Evadne stared into his ghastly pale face, unafraid, only filled with a deep, bone- chilling anger. "When Mrs. Chambers had her episode, seemingly triggered by my words, I knew something was off the moment she started convulsing and frothing at the mouth!


    You said your mother had a weak heart, but when I checked her eyes and pulse, it didn''t look like a heart attack or a seizure!


    Later, when her skin began to show red spots,bined with how you''re acting now, it made me suspect... your mother was poisoned! You injected her with some toxin! She died of poisoning!"


    Avery''s grip tightened around her waist, his pale, slender hands tensing, veins bulging, his eyes zing with fury.


    "Avery... how could you? You''ve hurt and killed so many, and now, your own mother? How could you use and harm her like this..."


    "Evadne, do you know? Your strength is your intelligence, but your w is being too clever." Avery''s eyes reddened as heughed, a sound more twisted and sorrowful than crying.


    "Why do I do this... don''t you understand yet?"


    His fingers harshly sped her chin, the force nearly crushing her delicate bone. "It''s all for you... all for you!"


    Avery''s voice broke in a roar, his voice shattered as if pierced by a thousand needles.


    To others, he was venomous and brutal, utterly inhumane.


    To Evadne, from their childhood, he had never lost his temper, let alone shout at her with such frenzied rage.


    Love and hate, resentment and anger, frustration and grievance...


    All churned inside him, suppressed for so long, slowly rotting, festering, breeding maggots...


    His sinful flesh became a breeding ground for these parasites, and by the time he wanted to turn back, he had be a monster devoid of humanity.


    Completely out of control, filled with regret.


    "My mother... even if I hadn''t sent her away, her days were numbered, and she would''ve left this world in immense pain. I just chose to shorten her agony."


    Avery''s dark eyes burned with madness and tenderness as he gently kissed near Evadne''s ear, whispering, "Would you have willinglye with me on that ne if I hadn''t done it? Bringing you here would have been very difficult. This was my only chance, I had to seed, failure wasn''t an option.


    So, I had my mother assist me. Though she''s gone, I believe... if she knew why I did everything, she would definitely forgive me. Because she loved me, her only son."


    A torrent of pain surged through him.


    Evadne, without a hint of sadness, let hot tears cascade down her cheeks:


    "What turned you into this? You weren''t like this fifteen years ago..."


    "The Avery from fifteen years ago is long gone."


    Avery''sugh was distorted, as he tightly embraced her, tears streaming down his


    face, "But the Avery who loves you... will never die."