Chapter 450: Heart’s Desires

Chapter 450: Heart’s Desires

For a moment, Jocelynn was frozen, like a deer startled by hunters, as she looked at Owain’s furious gaze and the knife gripped firmly in his right fist. Looking at him, her mind flashed back to a time several months ago, at the Summer Villa, when she asked if her sister suffered before she died.

"Of course she didn’t suffer," Owain had told her, as he stroked Jocelynn’s hair. "She may have been a witch, but for a few hours, she was my wife. I gave her a clean death. A single stroke of my sword. Swift, merciful. She was your sister after all," he said gently. "She deserved that much."

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