Chapter 666


    If Esther didn''t return on time, the children would get worried.


    Bradley scoffed. "Esther, did you ever consider Felix when you agreed to marry Chadwick?"


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    Esther''s smile turned bitter, her voice distant. "If it weren''t for you, would I have been forced to marry


    him?"


    Bradley snorted. "So?"


    "If it weren''t for me, you''d be dead now!" she cried.


    Why couldn''t Bradley see that her actions were for his sake? She just hoped he would survive.


    "Well, then I should thank you for putting this noose around my neck personally!" he quipped.


    Esther''s heart turned to ashes as she thought of how meticulously Bradley had treated Mandy and


    realized she had given birth to his children yet received none of his affection.


    She didn''t want to see Bradley anymore, so she closed her eyes andy down.


    Maybe this was her fate.


    Seeing Esther ignore him, Bradley noticed her pride and instructed his servant, "Get lunch ready."


    "Yes, Mr. Warner."


    Bradley picked a movie and enjoyed his meal while watching it leisurely. The aroma of food filled the


    air, wafting through the cracks in the coffin, reaching Esther''s nose.


    Esther''s stomach growled loudly at the wrong time. She quickly covered it and mentally reassured


    herself, ''I''m not hungry, I''m not hungry, I''m not hungry.''


    She wasn''t hungry. She wouldn''t beg Bradley, the madman, for food.


    To resist the temptation, Esther silently recalled the books she had read in prison, especially one about


    hypnosis.


    Using the techniques she had learned, she started to hypnotize herself.


    Slowly, she drifted into a deep slumber.


    After Bradley finished his lunch elegantly, he walked to the crystal coffin. Looking down at Esther, who


    appeared as peaceful as Sleeping Beauty, he felt inexplicably irritated.


    He snapped his fingers, and two tall, burly men moved the crystal coffin aside.


    Bradley took a step and entered the carefully crafted crystal coffin. His presence cast a shadow over


    Esther, like a dark cloud covering all her light.


    Bradley then ruthlessly bit down on Esther''s delicate lips, like a lone wolf on the grasnds.


    "Mmph! Ugh!"


    Esther opened her eyes in pain. She looked at Bradley in terror, and her fragmented voice escaped


    from his kiss. "What... are you… doing?"


    Bradley gripped Esther''s jaw with one hand and brutally replied, "It''s your wedding day today."


    Esther had a sudden memory of their wedding night.


    Back then, Bradley had been reluctant to marry her, and he hadn''t even bothered with his


    responsibilities as a husband on that night. Instead, he had told her he wouldn''t be intimate with her


    and suggested she handle Thomas'' questions herself.


    She realized she had been quite naive back then. She had been so happy to marry her true love that


    she was unaware that the inescapable tie between them would never be severed from that day on.


    "Consummating the marriage!" Bradley replied.