Chapter 9

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

At ten o’clock at night.

It suddenly started raining heavily.

Ruby was driven out of the Lincolns.

Like a walking corpse, she walked alone in the heavy rain with a blank and hollow look.

It had been five years.

A whole five years!

During these five years, the Lincolns had never given Ruby any help, not even once!

On top of that, no matter how difficult life was, Ruby had also never once asked her family for help.

But now, she had gotten down on her knees in front of Holly and begged her mother to save Nelly, yet she refused to even give her that life-saving $1,500!

Ruby was at her wits’ end!

There wasn’t even a single person in this huge city whom she could talk to!

She didn’t know who else she could go to anymore! Who could save her daughter now?!

She stumbled all the way, thoroughly drenched by the torrential rain, yet she didn’t feel anything.

All she wanted was to save her daughter!

When she returned to the hospital and came to the door of the ward her daughter was in, Ruby calmed herself down and neatened her clothes.

Her daughter had always been a sensible child.

She didn’t want her daughter to see her looking so down in the dumps. She didn’t want her to worry.

But…

When she opened the door and entered, she found that Nelly was gone!

Ruby froze on the spot.

She started to search everywhere for Nelly as though she had gone mad.

“Nelly!”

“Where are you, Nelly?!”

“Come on out, Nelly! Don’t scare Mommy!”

“Has anyone seen my daughter?”

Ruby fell to the ground and wailed hysterically, “Has anyone seen my daughter?! Give my daughter back to me!”

All around, doctors, nurses, patients, and innumerable other people looked at Ruby with either disdainful, sympathetic, mocking, or indifferent looks.

However, no one went to help her up at all.

This was exactly what a cold and heartless world was like.

Ruby felt icy-cold all over. At last, she couldn’t hold it in anymore, and she took out her cell phone and called Heller.

…

At the Nicholson Garden.

Heller stood silently in front of a grave.

Rather than calling it a grave, it was actually just a simple mound of soil.

Back then, the Zoffs had killed all the Nicholsons and discarded their bodies here, thereby turning the Nicholsons’ family graveyard into a mass grave instead.

Lindsey said softly, “Mr. Nicholson, according to what I’ve found out, the Zoffs abandoned your family in the wilderness back then. Later on, after you left, it was Ms. Lincoln who secretly came here and buried them.

“During the last few years, she would sneak here to pay respects to your family on their death anniversary.

“It’s also through this that the Zoffs finally found Ms. Lincoln and Nelly.”

Heller clenched his fists slightly and slowly got onto his knees before the grave.

“Dad, Mom. I’m sorry!”

“Five years… After five years, I’m finally back!”

“Rest assured that I’ll bring the heads of everyone from the Zoffs to your graves very soon!”

“And that vicious woman Lucy, too! I won’t let her off!”

“After I kill the enemy, I’ll return and pay my respects again!”

When he finished, Heller put his palms together and prayed to them.

One prayer to comfort the dead, three prayers for himself, six prayers for two generations of family, and nine prayers for three generations of family.

Thirteen prayers… were the absolute extreme!

Heller would use the heads of all the Zoffs and offer them up in a blood sacrifice to his family!

At this point, the phone suddenly rang. Heller didn’t want anyone to disturb him, so Lindsey picked up the call for him.

Very soon, Lindsey hung up and, with her face pale, said, “Mr. Nicholson, Ms. Lincoln just called. Nelly… She’s gone!”

Heller raised his head suddenly. “What did you say?!”

…

In the villa.

With Nelly in tow, Tyler came up to Sebastian.

The girl quickly ran to the old man lying in a pool of blood. She shook him gently and cried softly as she said, “Grandpa! Grandpa! Nelly’s here! I don’t want Grandpa to die!”

The look in Sebastian’s eyes immediately sharpened and he asked coldly, “You… Are you Nelly Nicholson?”

The crying Nelly asked timidly, “A-are you Daddy’s good friend? Hurry, save Grandpa!”

Good friend?

Sebastian let out a sinister laugh and replied, “That’s right, I’m your father’s good friend! And, I’m even his best friend!”

At the same time as he spoke,

Sebastian picked up a handful of steel pipes and ruthlessly struck Nelly with them. He shouted, “Tell me! Is Daddy’s friend nice to you?!”

“Ahh!!”

Nelly screamed!

Her little body was already covered in injuries before this. Now, she even gained new ones!

“You little bastard without a father!”

“Scream! Why don’t you scream?!”

“Say it! Are you a little bastard or not?!”

Nelly was terrified. There were tears in her eyes, but she nevertheless stubbornly refused to speak. She didn’t want to admit that she was a bastard that no one wanted.

“Nelly isn’t a bastard!”

“Nelly has a Daddy and a Mommy!”

Bam!

Sebastian raised the steel pipes and struck Nelly again on her head and her face as though he had gone crazy.

“No, you’re a bastard, alright!”

“Nelly isn’t!”

“No, you are!”

Nelly wasn’t even four! She wasn’t even four yet!

However, Sebastian showed no mercy. There was only a morbid sense of revenge in him at the moment!

Around him, hundreds of people from the Zoffs watched indifferently as Sebastian abused Nelly and made her wish she were dead. Not only did they not have even the slightest bit of sympathy for her, but they even shouted in unison:

“Bastard!”

“Bastard! You’re a bastard!”

Blood quickly dyed her clothes red and Nelly convulsed all over from the beatings. Her little face was full of tears.

“Hahahahaha!”

With a bloodstained pipe in his hand, Sebastian let out a long laugh and ordered sharply, “Say it! Hurry and say it! Say that you’re a bastard! Otherwise, I’ll beat you to death!”

Nelly was terribly frightened. She begged, “No, don’t beat Nelly anymore! N-Nelly is a bastard! Everyone says Nelly’s a bastard who doesn’t have a father!”

“But…”

Nelly huddled into a ball and hugged her tiny body. She didn’t even dare to cry loudly. Instead, she whispered, “But… Even unwanted bastards would be afraid of pain…”

Sebastian, whose eyes were bloodshot, said sinisterly, “It hurts? Well, it should! I want you to wish you were dead! I believe Heller will definitely be very pleasantly surprised!”

“Have you found Heller yet?”

Tyler took a step forward and answered truthfully, “Our men are searching the whole city for Heller, but we haven’t pinpointed his whereabouts for now. However, we did find this little bastard’s mother’s phone number. That bitch Ruby Lincoln will definitely know where Heller is!”

Sebastian pointed at Nelly and ordered sharply, “Men! Beat her up! Beat her up hard!”

“Record the whole process on a cell phone and send it to that slut Ruby!”

“Make her hand Heller over to me!”