Chapter 446


    When Seraphina coldly uttered, “Why don’t you just bury me alongside your son, Gloria’s face turned


    ashen, and then, with a rage that seemed to tear the very air, she lunged at Seraphina once more,


    screaming, “Shut up! Just shut up!”


    Seraphina stood by the bed, as immovable as a mountain, watching Gloria’s advance with a detached


    gaze, not bothering to dodge.


    Instead, she called out to Karan, her voice dripping with irony, “Karan, look, I speak of the sins she


    oncemitted, and how she loathes me now… Would you mind fetching a knife so she can finish me


    off?”


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    “Seraphina!” Karan shook with anger, “Stop provoking thedy!”


    “Everyone must answer for their actions, Seraphina spoke slowly, “She’s sown so much discord, why


    can’t I speak of it? Now, the misdeeds havee to haunt her own son-it’s her retribution!”


    Gloria let out a sharp scream, turned to the bedside, and in a frenzy began hurling everything from the


    bedside table at Seraphina.


    But Seraphina just stood there, unflinching, even smiling as objects pelted her.


    Seeing Seraphina’s smile, Gloria, using all her strength to hold herself upright, turned ghastly pale,


    looking like a specter.


    “You really should kill me, you know why?” Seraphina spoke again, “Because your son’s favorite


    person is me. Now he’s hanging by a thread, about to die. If you kill me, let me join him, that would be


    thest act of love for him.”


    “You’re lying!” Gloria could hardly articte anything else, only repeating those simple words, “You’re


    lying!”


    “He’s loved me for eight, maybe nine, ten years, Seraphina continued calmly, “Even when you were


    knocking on the door, he was holding me behind it, did you know? He loved me so much that, fearing


    I’d be a burden to him, he staged a whole act to push me away from the Reynolds family.


    Do you know how he lived after I left? A life full of deceit and darkness, constant betrayal, brushes with


    death… After all, that, he trusted no one, kept everyone at arm’s length.


    In those seven years, he never touched another woman-why? Oh, because he was afraid! Afraid that


    every intimate moment was a calction, a test of life and death! Until I came back… I was the only


    woman in his heart, the only one he trusted-his borate plot was to bring me back!


    In those seven years, have you ever seen him truly’smile? But after I returned, he began to smile, to


    sleep properly, to be a normal man again! We even had a child, a child conceived together, and


    do you know how thrilled he was when he knew Valerio was mine? He held me and said how grateful


    he was that Valerio was our child!


    We were happy, just the three of us, I could even forgive the things he had once done to me! But then


    you appeared… and destroyed everything!


    Because of you, I have to take Valerio to Summitville.


    Because of you, we have to live apart. And because of you, he’s back to those dark days!


    He can’t eat, can’t sleep, worn out from constant toil, all to care for you, a woman as hysterical as a


    lunatic!”


    Seraphina said so much in one breath that as Gloria listened to every word, her hatred intensified,


    grinding her teeth in anger. Yet every time she tried to interrupt, she found herself at a loss for words,


    only able to re at Seraphina, her tears falling unnoticed./


    And Seraphina continued,


    “He thought you were sick, that everything you did was beyond your control, and that you’d be fine


    once cured…


    But what sickness do you have? All these years, everything you’ve done has been an escape! You


    couldn’t face a husband who didn’t love you, a marriage that failed, you even feared facing the real


    you-because the real you is cowardly, weak, and inept!


    You feared everyone seeing your true face, so you tormented those around you for a sense of


    satisfaction!


    But no one cares, because no one loves you! Not a single one-except your son!


    Only he loved you… Only he endured everything you did!


    He loved me so much, he adored Valerio, my child, yet for you, just for you, he was willing to let us go


    to a city miles away!


    But how did you repay him? You took a knife and plunged it into his flesh!


    He was the only person in this world who loved you, and you killed him with a knife-”


    Gloria, who had been propping herself up with all her strength, suddenly lost all her energy as


    Seraphina finished speaking, copsing onto the bed with a thud.


    “Madam!” Karán, tears streaming, rushed to help Gloria up from the floor but only touched her cold,


    lifeless body.


    With great effort, Karan lifted her halfway, turned her over, and saw a face etched with utter despair-


    She was crying.


    Her mouth open but soundless, her tears incessantly streaking down h her pallid, face.


    Karan had been by her side for over thirty years and had never seen Gloria


    “Come on then, don’t you want to kill me?” Seraphina taunted, him to hell with your own hands!”


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    “Seraphina!” Karan, overwhelmed with sorrow, cried out, “Please, you, n join your son, whom you’ve


    dutifully served for years, only to send


    Seraphina seemed deaf to Karan’s words, her voice steady butced with a chilling resolve. “If you


    don’t end me now, I swear I will avenge my son, my husband. Every dark deed, every sin you’ve


    committed – I’ll spill it all to the cops. You will get what’sing to you. Justice will be served.”


    With that deration, she stood still, a statue in the midst of chaos, waiting for Gloria’s reaction.


    Gloria, however, was copsed in Karan’s arms, her sobs a testament to her despair and helplessness,


    her tears silent and endless.


    Two minutes ticked by before Seraphina finally turned on her heel and headed for the exit.


    But as she reached the staircase, she came face to face with a grim-looking Herman, whose


    eyes widened at the sight of her. “Seraphina, what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be at the


    hospital?”


    “I’m the one who called you here. I had to be here,” she replied, her voice hoarse with unshed emotion.


    Herman hesitated before speaking, “Is… is Leandro not doing well?”


    “I don’t know,” she answered simply.


    “So why… your face…” Herman started, tentatively raising his hand to gesture toward his own cheek.


    Following his cue, Seraphina mechanically reached up to touch her face, only to feel the dampness of


    tears. Tears she hadn’t even realized she had shed – a silent cascade of grief and determination.