Chapter 143

CAMILLA’S PO.V

As per tradition, we had to wait until the place was cleared out before we could leave. We waited for the last person to return to their house and for the executioner to carry the body away. I didn’t look at it once, I didn’t want to see her body. I didn’t know how but I knew that I was going to throw up if I saw it.

I had already told Ryker what I learned from her but unlike him, I still had a soft spot for people and I still felt like if she was dealt a better hand at life, she would have been a better person.

“Everything has been cleared out,” Ryker told me and I finally risked a glance. The guillotine was still there and I could see the blood coating the blade and the floor in front of it. I knew someone would clean it up before tomorrow but I couldn’t help but stare at it.

“Isn’t it funny?” I asked and he turned to me.

“Isn’t what funny, baby?”

“One second she was terrorizing us and the next, she is dead. It was so easy and yet so hard. She was such a torment but at the end of the day, she was just blood and meat like the rest of us.”

“I

guess that is one way to look at it,” he reached out to me and helped me to my feet. “I think we should just be grateful that she is gone and that we have no need to worry anymore. This is the first time in a long time that we have even a semblance of peace. We can finally take a break, maybe we can even take a vacation. The goddess knows that we both need one.”

I couldn’t help but chuckle. “Perhaps we could go to my father’s vacation house. Christine and the girls never made it there. It might be good for the two of us. What do you think?”

“That sounds like a good idea but first we need to actually find Christine. I wonder where she ran off to with that guy.”

As if on cue, I heard Christine’s voice. It sounded muf fled meaning she was a bit of a distance away but she was clearly yelling. We followed the sound until we got to the private living room. The door was slightly ajar which explained why her voice carried. Juan was standing with his back to us and he was so tall that he completely dwarfed Christine from our vision. Ryker wanted to go in but I grabbed my hand and shook my

head.

“No, listen,” I instructed and although I could tell that he didn’t agree, he nodded.

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Chapter 143

Christine was the first person to speak. “You should never have come here. I should never have come after you. It was a mistake. I told you as much when I left in the morning. It never should have happened.”

“Don’t insult your own intelligence by claiming it was a mistake, cara mia, you know better than that. You knew what you were doing and it scared

you because you liked it.”

“F uck off,” she tried to shove at his chest and although he stumbled back a little.copy right hot novel pub