This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 401

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Chapter 401 Bloodlust

A dull crack split the air as the boy yelped and released her, both hands flying to his nose.

“Are you out of your mind? Get away from me.”

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Maya’s voice came out sharp and ragged. “You’re the one who started this. What right do you have to stand there and act like you’re better than me?”

The words hit their mark.

The boy’s fury

He grabbe

eningly sweet juice nearby and moved to force it into her mouth and

The

she

d out of the banquet hall in twos and threes, and the grand evening began to d glitter like a discarded coat.

his hand. His fingertips pressed lightly against the door.

ent it did, Alfred went completely still.

is on the floor, knees against the cold stone, hair pulled taut in someone’s fist, blood at er of her mouth. She was struggling. The boy was trying to force the juice into her

mage struck him like a physical blow. Alfred’s eyes widened slightly, and a low, vibrating ing filled his cars.

age swept through him in a single catastrophic wave and dismantled every bit of composure he’d had.

The boy never noticed what was coming.

A sharp fork pressed a gentleness. The pres

“What do you t

is ration

wstrin

at warning. The motion carried no hesitation, no

ooding out.

very word carried weight like a blade, like a built to hold, ready to snap at any moment.

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The boy didn’t answer. Alfred drove it in.

Blood sprayed outward.

Finished

The boy screamed then, a high, shattering sound, tears of pure terror pouring down his face.

Maya knelt on the floor in a daze. Her knees had gone numb. Her temples throbbed in a slow, heavy beat. Everything happening in front of her seemed to move through water.

d pressed the fork in further, the tines cutting through the layer beneath the skin and ing deeper tissue.

poured freely.

et go. He watched the boy’s dying struggle with an expression that had lost its rely.

omething had shaken loose inside him.

His thoughts moved slowly, turning over a question he hadn’t let himself examine until now.

His sister.

Maya. Had she lived through something like this?

Had someone ever held her down? Pulled her by the hair? Forced something into her while she couldn’t fight back? Had she ever knelt on a cold floor somewhere, with no one in the world to stand up for her?

Was this her past?

Alfred had never let himself think it through completely.

He’d known for a long time that there were things about Maya that didn’t add up, things that didn’t sit right with him that he couldn’t fully explain.

He’d formed theories. He’d pushed them down.

But if past lives were this could ha

The tho

stop s

If

if a person could carry memory from one world into another, then

from.

water poured from somewhere above. He couldn’t

rstood what drove his sister with such relentless,

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Finished

People always fixated on what childhood kept from them. She had never been given anything that resembled love. She had clung to the idea of it because she’d never once held it in her hands.

Like a moth too fragile for its own wings, she had gone toward warmth again and again, knowing what flames do.

She would never stop until it killed her.

But why did it have to be her?

Why her, of all people?

Alfred didn’t know how to make sense of this world.

He had never been someone who hated things easily. He had absorbed his own suffering without anger.

But why her? Why not someone else? Why did she die so many times inside his world? Why was she always the one on the receiving end?

Why?

It was revolting.

Alfred’s face was pale, his expression quietly fractured in a way that made him look like the one who needed comforting.

Maya bit lightly at the corner of her lip. Something about the sight made a feeling rise in her that she couldn’t quite name, except that it felt like warmth.

She decided she probably wasn’t entirely normal either.

A person who watched someone get killed was supposed to scream. To break down in terror.

Maya felt alive. The relief of it outweighed the fear she should have felt looking at the boy crouching in front of her.

She wonded vaguely, whether he would deal with her next, now that she’d witnessed it.

never been the type to flinch first. She looked up at him, straightened

ou come here to kill me?”

dropped to her face, and he lowered himself to one knee. He

the wetness from the corners of her eyes.

1. Unhurried.

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Chapter 401 Bloodlust

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