I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 228

“I will kill them with my own hands.”

As the flames consuming the village finally began to subside, Evan rushed recklessly into the still-smoldering ruins.

‘Ah…’

It was a sight that stole all words away.

He had seen firewood burning in hearths and watched chickens being scorched with flames after their necks were wrung for plucking.

He had even once seen someone severely burned over their entire body from an actual house fire—though he hadn’t looked too closely.

Even that brief glimpse—the raw, blistered skin oozing red fluids, the agonized groans—had seared itself into his memory, impossible to forget.

‘Leoni… please, just stay alive.’

In his desperate mind, his wife’s gentle smile as she waved him off with a soft “Come back safely” shattered piece by piece each time dark red embers swirled through the air.

He prayed she had escaped the inexplicable inferno.

She was far too brilliant and extraordinary a woman—he believed she couldn’t possibly vanish so meaninglessly like this.

If she were alive, she would have circled around the burning village and found her way back down by now.

He had scoured the village perimeter for days, yet found no trace of anyone escaping outward.

Moreover, seeing how thick, massive logs had been piled high at the entrance—as if deliberately blocking every exit—before being set ablaze, his blood turned icy within the furnace-like heat.

The village had existed beneath the vast, spreading branches of the Sacred Tree, Arbor.

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