ebookland Chapter 498 Good Girl, Eat It
Chapter 498 Good Girl, Eat It
The night was as thick as ink, making people feel their steps sluggish. Before they even reached their bedroom, James Friel was too sleepy to open his eyes, and the butler Hoffman was nowhere to be found, so no one noticed that the Viscount's face was gradually becoming numb and lifeless.
I even began to mutter to myself uncontrollably—
"It's over, it's almost over..." After the trial by combat, she would definitely disappear completely, and he would no longer have to live with a secret.
The man's walking posture became more and more stiff, like a puppet with its joints hung by ropes, and began to become unstable. Then the shadows in the corners rushed to the floor like living things, hugging the noble lord forward, as if they were afraid that he would go in the wrong direction and he would be unaware of it.
Soon, the luster of the silver door handle was clearly visible in the moonlight. James stared blankly for a while, then turned the door and walked in.
There was some light in the room. As soon as he entered the room, a maid rushed over in a panic with a basin of water, and the water in the basin almost splashed onto Viscount Friel.
"Great, why don't you wait until I wake up tomorrow to clean it up?"
This sudden situation woke the Viscount up and he muttered something subconsciously. The maid seemed very panicked and ran out with her head down. She looked familiar, but James couldn't remember her name for a moment.
"Doctor, I'll go find a doctor..." The maid ran out with a trembling voice.
——It’s ridiculous to think that he can avoid punishment in this way. Tomorrow he will let Hoffman see who is on duty and is so lazy that he only makes his bed at this time.
As he thought about it, he untied his tie and walked towards the bed.
A woman's sigh was heard suddenly in the room, sounding strange in the dim light.
James paused as he was taking off his bow tie. He tried to open his sleepy eyes, and through the dim candlelight, he found that there was indeed a vague figure behind the bed curtains.
"...Melissa? Are you back?" James staggered forward in the chaos and lifted the bed curtain.
Not Melissa.
"Jamie..."
The person on the bed sobbed in pain and called his name.
James was struck by lightning.
"—help me, Jamie."
The woman on the bed was not covered with a blanket. The hand she stretched out to James was as dry as a branch in winter, completely skin and bones. However, in contrast to her thin limbs, she had a huge round belly. James was caught off guard and he could clearly see the dense black and purple veins on her belly when he got so close to her. That was because the blood vessels under the skin had been squeezed too much and were visible to the naked eye under the almost transparent skin.
"No..." James' lips trembled. Why did he have this nightmare again?
"Jamie..." The woman was still calling. Her belly suddenly bulged, as if something inside had turned over. James shuddered violently and backed away wailing.
"No! No!" James looked around in the dim light and suddenly realized that this was not his bedroom. This was, this was...
"Jamie, it hurts so much, I have no strength..." The woman's voice was intermittent due to the pain. She wanted to hold her husband's hand to get some comfort, but she got no response.
This was the bedroom he and Violet Shelley lived in. James' face turned pale. Was he brought back here by his dream again?
Black fog rolled, and everything in the room became blurry, except for the bed. The woman's moaning became weaker and weaker. James turned around and ran back to where he came from. His instinct told him that he just needed to run away, and he would be able to wake up from this nightmare if he ran away. But when he turned around, he found -
Where is the door? It disappeared after the maid left!
James suddenly remembered who the familiar maid was - Mary, it was Mary, it was... Violet's personal maid. This dream was more specific, and even the details were exactly the same.
He pressed himself against the wall where the door disappeared and turned around trembling all over. The woman on the bed was lying on her back with her legs bent in an extremely embarrassing posture, like a thorny spider with its belly turned upside down. Over the years, he shuddered whenever he thought of this strange image.
James slid down the wall and fell into the black fog, his face pale.
He couldn't control his dream and could only watch it all continue to happen. Although his brain was in a mess and his neck was pressed down by the black fog so that he couldn't lift his head, he knew clearly that Violet's wailing would not last long, because...
A very tall woman stood at the head of Violet Shelley's bed, bent over and gently touched her belly.
Here it comes, here it comes—James tried to step back, but his legs were kicking in vain.
The person was taller than the beam above the four-poster bed. She bent her body very deeply so that she could carefully observe the pregnant woman on the bed. Violet stared blankly at the tall woman who suddenly appeared, full of horror.
"..."
The woman said something, but James didn't understand Elvish, otherwise he would have known that what she said was -
"She's dying. She can't give birth."
Since she appeared, the black fog in the room has become extremely violent.
Then, without hesitation, she reached into her chest, dug out a bloody, still beating heart, and handed it to the screaming Violet.
"Good girl, eat it." This time she spoke in the common language of mankind.
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"Lilith." Ian called out to the girl who was looking up at the statue of the God of Light.
"Let's go."