Chapter 1443:


    The room fell silent. Only the thunder outside continued to growl through the night.


    Rosanna didn’t know his final thoughts. She simply stared at his lifeless body, at the stiff, vacant eyes. She felt no fear. No remorse. Only the numb quiet that follows vengeance — and a warped, hollow sense of satisfaction.


    “Hell?” she echoed softly, her mouth curving into a fractured, icy smile. She reached out and closed his eyes. “Axell, you’re wrong. This is hell. And I’m the demon ruling it.”


    She slipped the blood-spattered will somewhere safe, stood, straightened her ragged red dress, andbed her hair with steady fingers. Then she left the bedroom as calmly as if nothing had happened, pulling the door shut behind her.


    The body. The blood. Her former shame. She left them all in the darkness.


    She returned to the guest room on the third floor,y down on the soft bed, and waited quietly for the medical team to arrive. She would recover. She would seize control of the Nelson empire. And then she would destroy Ss — the celebrated actor who had caused Austen’s death — and Maia.


    At South Lake Park, rain sheeted from the sky without pause, soaking everything in sight.


    Hidden behind a cluster of shrubs, Kiley crouched low. Her designer trench coat clung to her, heavy and waterlogged. She drew sharp, controlled breaths, determined to stay silent. Nearby footsteps sshed through muddy puddles, closing in with an unsettling rhythm. Her father’s covert operatives swept across the park with grim precision, inspecting every shadow as though dissecting a crime scene. shlight beams skimmed past her hiding ce with every sweep, each one threatening to expose her.


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    Kiley bit her lower lip until she tasted blood. Raegan had gonepletely silent, and her bodyguards had been wiped out, leaving her utterly isted. The USB drive clutched in her hand felt like her only leverage — the sole means to bring her father down. Being caught was not an option. Neither was betraying udius’s trust.


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