She wasn’t about to let him go so easily. Not a chance.

Sophia was untouchable for now due to certain complications, so Katelyn had no choice but to bide her time. But Chester? There was no reason to spare him.

Chester cursed her again in his heart, but he wasn’t stupid—Katelyn wouldn’t fall for empty words.

Meeting her gaze, he nodded. “Fine.”

No matter how much he resented her, he knew he had no choice but to comply. Right now, all he wanted was to survive. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even make it past today.

Katelyn gave a slight nod, signaling him to continue.

This time, Chester held nothing back. His voice was steady as he revealed the truth. “The Ruiz family was wiped out by the current king. While some nobles played a part, the Crane family had the biggest hand in it.”

After all, the King’s mother came from the Crane family. Naturally, they did the most to eliminate the Ruiz family.

So, the downfall of the Ruiz family had been the result of a power struggle. And the mastermind behind it all was the king himself?

Katelyn found something about this unsettling. She narrowed her eyes at Chester and asked, “What happened to the Ruiz family’s youngest daughter?”

She wasn’t sure if the tragedy of the Ruiz family was just tied to the King’s ambitions. But what interested her most was the fate of the missing youngest daughter—because that woman might have been her mother.

Chester froze. His eyes flickered with doubt as he studied Katelyn. “How do you know about the Ruiz family so well? You even know they had a missing youngest daughter?”

Was Katelyn connected to the Ruiz family? No, that was impossible! Except for that youngest daughter, every member of the Ruiz family had been slaughtered. Katelyn couldn’t be one of them. Besides, she was from Granville—the daughter of the Bailey family.

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Chester had no idea that Katelyn wasn’t actually Jeff’s biological daughter. If he had known, he would have been forced to rethink everything he believed about her.

Katelyn met his gaze, her voice carrying an icy chill. “Why don’t you take a guess?”

In that moment, Chester felt something terrifying—a suffocating, murderous aura piercing straight into his soul. She wasn’t bluffing.

She would kill him without hesitation.

His body tensed, and he quickly stammered, “I—I don’t know!”

He didn’t dare keep guessing. Right now, nothing mattered more than staying alive. The burning pain in his arms and face was enough to remind him—this woman was pure evil.

Seeing that he had no more foolish guesses left, Katelyn asked once more, “So, what happened to the youngest daughter?”

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