Without realising it, I had gripped my hand tightly, and the sharp pain piercing my flesh jolted me back to reason.

I roughly wiped the falling tears off with the back of my hand.

I wanted to kill them all right then and there, but I knew I couldn’t.

I couldn’t let these beasts die quickly, oblivious to their own shame.

They needed to struggle in agony, as if they had lost a child, or even more so.

They had to be trampled on and destroyed until they preferred death to the torture of seeing their bodies torn limb from limb.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to handle this boiling rage within me.

I flung the shard in my hand harshly onto the ground.

Looking at my face reflected on the bloodstained floor, it seemed as though I was drenched in blood, but I laughed at the sight.

I finally understood why I had regressed into the past.

It wasn’t God who saved me, but the devil.

A devil who wanted to guffaw at the sight of me struggling.

Otherwise, no one could have made me this miserable.

But now, I didn’t care.

If it really was the devil that saved me, I was ready to dance to his tune.

“So, did you have a good time?”

“I’m sorry, honey. But it’s not what you think. We just”

“We?”

“No! No! I didn’t mean that, I just, I just…”

Apparently, he couldn’t think of any more excuses, and Bake was stammering and glancing at me.

I looked down at the two men kneeling before me and folded my arms.

They seemed to be apologizing earnestly, but I knew from my past experiences how meaningless their apologies were.

I took a slow breath.

I knew myself well, and therefore, I knew exactly what I had to do.

Even though Bake was begging me now, I didn’t know when his heart would change.

And when that happens, I wouldn’t be able to face Bake as I am now.

I needed a different approach to prevent this issue from ending with just verbal apologies.

“Let’s get a divorce. I’ll divorce you.”

“Levianna!”

“Isn’t that what you wanted? That’s why you called her, just as the sorrow from our daughter’s death was beginning to fade. You brought a woman carrying your child into my bedroom.”

“No! You’re mistaken, mistaken! I didn’t mean that! I just wanted Margaret to testify about Meriel’s death”

“Now you’re trying to use our dead daughter? Meriel wasn’t your daughter?”

As I gave him a cold stare, Bake shut his mouth tightly.

I turned away from the disgusting man.

At the end of my sight was the wideopen terrace.

I bit my lip at the sensation of the wind that blew in through the terrace gently brushing against my cheek.

I knew that if Meriel was here now, she would have whispered that the wind was giving her a kiss.

‘It might be lonely, but wait a little longer. It won’t be long before Mommy joins you.’

I made a short, unreachable prayer to the sky and turned around again.

The two men were still kneeling on the ground.

But no one was sincerely apologizing.

All Bake wanted was to appease my anger somehow and defuse the situation, and Margaret, while watching my reactions, harboured a subtle expectation.

“I don’t know why you thought that. I haven’t done anything shameful since I got married to you.”

“Levianna, it’s not that I doubted you, I just”

“She was your daughter. She was our child, born between you and me.”

I didn’t know when Bake started doubting Meriel’s bloodline.

The timing didn’t matter in the first place.

What mattered was that for even a single day, Bake thought of Meriel that way.

“The fact that I overlooked your infidelity was also for that reason. Because you’re the father of my child. I thought no stepfather could be better than her own father.”

“…”

“But, you saw my innocent daughter as the seed of infidelity? Even in the mourning period for your daughter, you held a woman who is carrying another child and boasted about it.”

They were things I already knew, but saying them out loud made me feel even more ridiculous.

I gripped the railing of the terrace and briefly closed and then opened my eyes.

My body trembled instinctively, but I had no intention of stopping.

“How should I react in this situation? Especially after losing my daughter.”

“…”

“I’m tired now. I’m tired of everything. So, I want to stop. I’d rather die than live like this.”

“I tried to hold on. I really tried to endure it. But now, I don’t think I can.”

“…Levianna?”

“I’m so tired. I want to stop.”

She thought for a while.

How to kill those beasts most painfully.

And soon, she realized.

To deal with beasts, I too have to bite like a beast without caring about the means and methods.

Even if it means using my own body.

She leaned her upper body slightly backwards, as if to show off.

Among the many rooms, it wasn’t by chance that she chose her study.

She had lived in this mansion all her life. There was nowhere in the mansion her hands hadn’t touched, and she knew everything about the mansion.

These people who looked at me with their astonished young eyes probably didn’t know that.

“St… stop! Don’t do it! Riviana!”