"My best friend," The woman's eyes dimmed. "He is my good friend, my best friend."
This strange woman looked incredibly creepy as she muttered incoherently, with her head hung low in the middle of the night.
"Who the hell are you?!" Yesseca yelled out again.
She didn't know if it was just an illusion, but Yesseca got goosebumps as she talked to her.
"Who am I?!" The woman suddenly became agitated. She glared fiercely at Yesseca. "I'll tell you who I am. I'm Lothar's best friend!"
Yesseca was shocked.
This woman was her brother's best friend?
How could this be?
She didn't know this woman at all!
How could this woman be her brother's best friend?
Yesseca shook her head. "I don't even know you. You mustn't be that important of a friend of my brother's!"
"If not me, then who else could it be?!" The woman became even more agitated. "Besides me, who else could be your brother's best friend?!" "Selina," Yesseca replied. "She's my brother's best friend!"
The woman's eyes widened.
Her irises were freakishly large. "Her? She isn't your brother's best friend. She's a swindler, a total fraudster!"
After saying that, the woman closed in on Yesseca and said, "I can't believe that you're defending such a charlatan. When that swindler gave birth to her baby, you came to visit her. Yet you still call her your sister. Yesseca, are you even worthy of Lothar?!"
As the woman approached her, Yesseca suddenly saw her face up close.
The empty look in her eyes against her pale face was particularly scary.
She didn't like a real person at all, she seemed more like a puppet.
Yesseca was so frightened that she stumbled backwards and fell to the ground.
Bang!
The impact of her fall rang out loud.
When the woman saw Yesseca fall down, a look of guilt flashed across her face.
She held out her hand. "Get up."
Yesseca's eyes were filled with fear.
The woman added, "Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. You are Lothar's sister. How could I ever hurt you?"
Yesseca looked at the hand that was reaching out towards her.
The hand looked thin and pointed.
Her hands were beautiful, but they looked kind of old as they were very thin and withered.
"Go away!" Yesseca shouted at her.
She didn't want to get any closer to this woman.
Just looking at her was terrifying.
The woman saw the fear in Yesseca's eyes.
Her face fell. "Are you afraid of me?"
Yesseca didn't reply.
The woman reached out her hand again. "I've done so much for your brother, and I've brought your brother to see you. Yet here you are, afraid of me, terrified of me!"
Yesseca didn't understand what this woman was talking about.
Her mind was a mess. Yesseca simply stared at her, afraid that she would hurt her.
The woman sneered, "Yesseca, I owe your brother so much for his kindness towards me. Yet you fear me, but you are so nice towards Selina. Do you even care about your brother? Can't you see what's going on here?!
Yesseca plucked up her courage and said, "I don't know what kind of feelings you had for my brother. I don't even know you, but Selina is my sister. I'm very grateful to her for taking care of me. She is good to me, so I have to be good to her,"
The woman suddenly threw her head back and burst out laughing.
"You have to be nice to Selina. You actually believe that you have to be nice to her!" She suddenly glared at Yesseca's face. Her gaze was so sharp that it felt like it was going to dig a hole into Yesseca's face. "Selina is the reason your brother is dead, and you want to be nice towards her? Look at your sister Lothar! Look at her!"
Yesseca shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about? Why would she kill my brother? You're wrong!"
"Nonsense?!" The woman's lips curled up menacingly. "I'm not talking nonsense. I'm simply stating a fact, she killed your brother. It was her! She's the murderer!"
The woman's voice felt like a heavy net that had enveloped Yesseca. It was so heavy she couldn't escape.
Just then, a figure started walking closer from a distance.
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