Chapter 340
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yes snapped
where he sat on the opposite sofa. Their gazes met.
d sweat dripping from her forehead as she jolted awake on the sofa, Instinctively, she reached out beside her.
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A heavy silence tiled the sandy as they stared at each other, neither speaking a word. Time seemed to stop until the fragrant incense burned out.
ou just now,” Percivals hoarse voice broke the silence, low and steady in the dim room
in felt like a dream, yet it was so vivid it seemed as if he had lived through it himself.
Odalys grabbed a bottle of water nearby, twisted it open, and took a large gulp. Catching her breath, she said. “I saw you too.
Percival studied her panicked expression for a long moment before speaking. “So, in the previous timeline, before you married me, you saw the newspaper about Selah’s death, were shocked, and jumped off a building!”
Yes” Odalys replied softly
it before. Today was the first time.
(uncase welled up within her. This was a technique her master had taught her, but she had never used it befo
The hadn’t expected that using Percival’s birth date would reveal their connection in the previous timeline.
wonder she had decisively mamed Percival on the day she was forced to be a substitute bride.
the previous timeline, he was the only one who came for her, who draped a clean blanket over her lifeless body and carried her up the mountain about bestation
he was able to travel back in time thanks to Percival.
owever, she didn’t know why after he carried her body up the mountain, he was never seen again. She wondered if Percival died as well. Why did you come looking for me? Whose debt were you repaying?” Odalys asked, her curiosity piqued as she looked at Percival.
val rubbed his temples and met her gaze.
Eve years old, a fortune
ode” Perceval explained.
teller passing through Crownridge read my fortune. According to my grandfather, that fortune teller saved my
He continued. The Stewart family has always repaid its debts. As for what we just saw, where I appeared outside the Rennett Villa after your death
looking for you. I can’t explain it either.”
Hi guze grew more
new more complex as he looked at Odalys.
soment she married into the Stewart family as a substitute bride and began testing boundaries with him, he’d felt an inexplicable trust
understood. It was all predestined.
Maybe the perion you met was my master,” Odalys sugge
had never mennoned any of this, but when the Bennett family brought her back, it was her master who told her she had a destined
one dut required her to leave.
Whether this calamary
lar forced marriage into the B
family or Percival’s appearance, she still couldn’t say
“Regardless, we knew each other in the previous timeline Percival said.
rushed speaking, Extalysa phone buzzed with a nounication.
famlar mmmber on the screen. Though she hadn’t saved it, she knew it belonged to Caspian.
lped me “Catalys murmured.
Alter her death, far Bennett Family treated her with disdain. Only Caspian had bothered to cover her with cloth, yet he was also the one who
need to bring her into a potrlnimous fumtriage
Whether in the premonitin
las tete, not a single one in the Bennett family was a good person.
“He wants you tra gre ber Pricical frowned.
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Odalys didn’t answer but handed him her phone instead. Percival read the message on her screen. It said [Don’t show yourself for now, Dad coming back, and he will make trouble for yoı |
A brief seme
it conveyed the situation to her, Odalys didn’t reply.
Just then, Percival’s phone also vibrated. Seeing the caller II, be quickly answered the phone and asked, “What’s up?
Alter hearing the other person’s response, his gaze instinctively shifted to Odalys.
Odalys had planned to return to her room. Int when her ey
reyes met his, she paused and sat back down
When Percival ended the call, he turned to her and said, “Orson just e
called. Ebe had a miscarriage at the hospital and asked if I would go
“Are you going”” Odalys asked
Percival remained silent for a moment before standing up and saying, “Why not take a look?”
“Then I’ll go too, Odalys said.
As she spoke, Percival turned and headed to his room. Shortly after, he emerged in a black casual outfit, while Odalys hadn’t changed her clothes, The two of them were dressed in low–key casual suits. Odalys was in white, while Percival was in black. But for some reason, it gave the illusion of a couple’s outh
“Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Stewart, are you heading our Dorian quickly approached as he saw them beading for the door.
Percival
I grabbed his car keys and replied, Tell Grandpa we’re heading to the hospital and make sure he eats his dirmer,”
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him down right away, Dorian said, rubbing his nose sheepishly
Exander had indeed been starving earlier but had refrained from interrupting the couple’s meal together. Instead, he’d hidden in his room munching on chips. It was not healthy for his age.
Perival drove Odalys to the hospital
When they arrived outside the VIP ward, they could hear Edie’s screams from afar.
“Odalys you batch Edie’s curses rang out repeatedly. Percival’s expression turned cold as a flicker of:
anger
surfaced.
someone insult her made him inexplicably irritated, and a faintly murderous glint
Instinctively, he felt a strong need to protect Odalys. Hearing son thickered in his eyes.
dying yet Ol
“Sull has the strength to hurl insults? Looks like she isn’t d yet,” Odalys secret. “I’m curious about the curse inside her. She couldn’t understand why Edie hated her so much. Eddie placed the curse worm in her body herself. Odalys merely bucklash. If Edie hadn’t used the curse worm, none of this would have happened
ly killed it, which caused a
Everything was simply karma. No one else was to blame.
“What will happen if the curse worm stays in her body? Percival asked in a deep voice.
Odalys’s eyes lit up with a touch of excitement
Odalys explained. “Death of courur. Nurturing a curse worm inside the body means it burrows into the flesh and feeds on its host daily. If the host becomes too weak and the worn tenses its survival is furatenol…”
She continued. “Then it would try to escape the host’s bly. The life veins of the host would become the wor’s only exit. To survive, the won would devour the host’s internal organs, causing ducir death. Only then would the worm leave and seek a new host”
calma but loud ennigli for those side the ward to hear
Ele was in so much pain that she rolled around. She struggled to crawl out, cursing, “Odalys, you bitch Why did you kill the curse worm‘ Why did
As soon as the frushed speaking. Percival stood in from of Calalys
He stogel tall, looking down at Erle with cold difference. Illexpressioni wi alui as if he didn’t even know her.
