“You’re just looking for excuses to vent the hatred in your heart! Scheming people are good at lying. You’re no exception, Noreen. I won’t be fooled by you again!” I was so angry that I pounced on her. But strangely, Noreen didn’t move as quickly as earlier.
This time, I even managed to touch her cloak.
Noreen didn’t fight back and let me transform into a wolf. I swung my claws at her chest, but blood didn’t spurt out. Instead, the place I swiped suddenly turned into straw.
I withdrew my claws in surprise, and the straw quickly disappeared without a trace.
Just then, Noreen’s skin started to crack like a porcelain doll.
Straw exploded from the cracks and her eyes gradually turned a dim yellow, looking lifeless.
This terrifying scene made me subconsciously flinch in fear.
To me, these kinds of tricks were scarier than facing a witch.
Noreen’s lifeless face grinned at me wickedly. “This is just my avatar, silly girl. My real body is somewhere else.”
I pursed my lips and growled, “What the hell do you want?”
Noreen didn’t answer my question. She stared back at me as her body started to turn into straw, her voice becoming hollow and distant. “If you still don’t believe me, just ask your dear mate. It seems that he already knows that Leonard is your father.”
After saying that, Noreen’s avatar spat out a mouthful of straw. She knelt on the ground, twitching. Finally, she went completely stiff and turned into a scarecrow, lying like a corpse on the ground.
Leonard’s POV
It had been a long time since I felt so weak and powerless. My body seemed to be giving up. Even my heart couldn’t seem to beat properly.
Sensing that my breathing was slowing down, I woke up from my coma with a start.
I gasped for air as my oxygen-deprived brain was still in a daze.
I tried to blink, but it felt as though my eyes were covered with a layer of white paste and mist.
When I finally came to my senses and my heartbeat returned to normal, I found myself lying in a bedroom.
As I looked at my surroundings in confusion, a figure approached me.
It took me a while to recognize that it was Alina. Then I remembered that I had fainted not long after Edwin left.
My brain was working again and I gradually remembered everything. I didn’t know how long it had been since I passed out, but I immediately felt anxious. I didn’t know how Sylvia was now.
When Alina reached out to pull the quilt up around me, I grabbed her hand and asked, “How long has it been since Edwin left? Is he back? What about Sylvia?”
Alina paused for a moment, but she seemed unfazed. She smiled faintly and said, “Dad, you’ve been out for only an hour. As for the people who went out to rescue Sylvia, they haven’t come back yet.”
I let out a long sigh and felt very uneasy. It had been an hour and we still got nothing. I didn’t know if something had happened to Edwin and the others.
“Dad, relax. Prince Rufus is there. He won’t let anything happen to Sylvia.” Alina patted my shoulder to comfort me.
“You’re right.” I sighed and took solace in knowing that Rufus was strong enough to bring Sylvia back safely.
Despite this, I still felt guilty. For the wedding, I had dispatched more than half of the pack’s soldiers to guard the manor. Despite the tight security, the enemy was still able to break in.
“Dad, don’t worry too much about it, okay? Here, have some soup first.” Alina held up a bowl of soup and was about to feed me.
Having no appetite, I shook my head. “No, I want to rest.”
“Eat a little so that you have something in your stomach before taking the medicine,” Alina persuaded.
I sighed. Sylvia hadn’t been saved yet, and I was in no mood to eat.
Alina said earnestly, “Sylvia will be fine, Dad. If you don’t take your medicine, your condition will get worse and Sylvia will only worry about you when she gets back.”
I glanced at the pills in Alina’s hand. What she said made sense, so I sat up reluctantly and drank some soup.
“No seasoning?” I looked at the bowl of soup in my hand and frowned slightly. It was completely bland. I started to wonder if I had lost my sense of taste. Although I had been in poor health for a while now, I could still taste things before. It seemed that I was seriously ill this time.
Alina chuckled. “You’re sick so I reasoned that you needed some light food, so I didn’t add much seasoning.”
“Even so, I should be able to taste the other flavors of the soup, but I can’t taste anything at all.” I uneasily asked Alina to call the doctor in.
Alina fell silent for a moment. After a while, she smiled and said, “The doctor said it was nothing serious.”
“Call the doctor,” I said again. “Let me ask him myself.” I didn’t believe that there was nothing wrong with me. I knew my own body and I clearly felt that there was something wrong with it. No matter how seriously ill I was in the past, I had never lost my sense of taste.
But Alina ignored me. “Dad, you should drink more soup so that you can take your medicine.”
“Call the doctor! Alina, why aren’t you listening to me?” I roared impatiently.
Alina didn’t respond. Instead, she took the bowl from me and ladled more soup into it. “The doctor said that you should drink more soup to strengthen your body.”
I was so angry that I slapped the bowl of chicken soup out of her hand. “I said, call the doctor! Alina, what are you so afraid of? Why won’t you let me see the doctor?”
Leonard’s POV
The chicken soup spilled all over the floor and scalded Alina’s hand. I immediately regretted my rash actions and felt guilty.
I didn’t want to get angry with Alina, but she blatantly ignored my orders over and over again. Ever since Alina had come back from the capital, she had become more withdrawn and difficult to communicate with. This wasn’t the first time that she had ignored my orders.
Last time, she threw a fit when I tried to arrange a marriage for her and even flipped a table in front of a group of elders.
I sighed helplessly. The anger in my heart quickly dissipated. I wanted to say something to ease the tension, but I couldn’t bring myself to apologize.
The atmosphere quickly became awkward.
Alina looked at the shattered bowl on the ground for a few seconds, and then squatted down to clean up the mess.
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