What?” He only noticed that he had raised his voice afterward and quickly forced himself to be quieter again. “I sincerely apologize for that, but... Sefare is really alive?”


    Luciano took a  longer to compose himself enough to speak, but even then, he was still visibly shaken and kept averting his eyes as he replied. “My father probably just proposed all of that because it would give him a chance to see you suffer on a daily basis. I have no idea why he was that insistent on hurting you, but...” Once again, he stopped. Only a single second was enough to change his mood, and he continued with much more anger in his voice. “Actually, I think I know why. Because he is a psychopathic, sadistic bastard that needs to have absolute control over anyone and anything so that he can feel satisfaction. And I couldn''t hold back for a moment and told him that. He got angry again, at me this time. He said things that were supposed to encourage me to do it, and I refuse to repeat them.” He shivered at that thought, which immediately wiped away Luciano''s anger and only left behind exhaustion and disappointment as well as dejection and disgust. “I obviously still refused. Even when he said that our family depended on this, I said that we should find another way. Then he told me that he would throw me out of the house. I reminded him that he needed an heir and that my stores were enough to keep me, Mother and Rebecca in safe living conditions. At that moment, he understood what he could use to threaten me. He said that an accident would happen to my little sister if I didn''t listen to him.”


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