Chapter 103

•Evangeline•

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A cold bucket of water was splashed over Lorenzo's face. His head lulled as he tried to open his eyes. I snapped my fingers in front of his face and then lightly tapped his cheek.

"Lorenzo? Get up!" I ordered.

"What?" he whispered, still reeling from the drug. "Mrs. Costello?"

"Evangeline! How many times do I have to tell you that!"

He looked behind me, his eyes wandered all over the dingy cell. "Why?" was all he could manage to say.

"What?" I asked, acting indifferent.

"Why did you..." he looked down at his leg. "What are you doing?"

"I'm not going to kill you," I told him. "I'm not... I really want to but if I killed you, Nikolai will come for revenge and I'm not going to let the people I care about bleed to their deaths for someone like you"

His hands were tied behind his back, his legs were tied to the legs of the chair. "What did I do?"

"Did you or did you not kill my parents? Did you rape my mother before or after you killed her?" I tried hard to no