Reborn Fake Heiress Watch the Whole Family Burn novel Chapter 969

It was utterly destroyed, completely unrecognizable. Scalding tears dripped from the hollow sockets, splashing onto Elena's fingers.

Staring at the horrific ruins of the face in front of her, Elena's breath hitched. "Bianca... is that you?"

"Mmph! Mmmph! Mmmph!"

The beggar let out an agonizing, ear-piercing wail of grief.

She nodded her head so hard she nearly tipped the basket over.

Tears blurred Elena's vision, spilling hot and fast down her cheeks.

"Oh my god... you're alive. You're Bianca!"

"Mmph! Mmmph! Mmmph!"

Elena dropped to her knees, pulling the mangled torso into a desperate, crushing embrace. The dam broke, and she sobbed uncontrollably into her friend's shoulder.

"Bianca! It's you, it's really you... you survived..."

"But why... who did this to you? How could this happen?!" Elena's heart shattered into a million pieces.

She had survived, but her existence was a waking nightmare. Sometimes, a quick death was infinitely kinder than living in hell.

As Bianca wailed against her, Elena looked closer at her mouth and saw the horrifying truth: her tongue had been viciously ripped out.

No wonder she couldn't speak.

"We're leaving. I'm taking you home right now. I've got you," Elena choked out, fiercely scooping the basket into her arms.

As she stood up, a local fruit vendor nervously warned her.

"Lady, I wouldn't do that if I were you. The syndicates run these beggars. You take her, you're buying yourself a death sentence!"

"I don't care."

"Look, they're cash cows for the local gangs," the vendor sighed. "I've been working this street for a decade. You can't save them. Just wait, you'll see."

Elena ignored the warning, holding Bianca tight against her chest as she strode down the alley.

She barely made it thirty feet before a dozen tattooed enforcers swarmed out of the shadows, blocking her path.

"Put the freak down," the lead enforcer barked, drawing a machete.

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