บททั้งหมดของ Defy Me If You Can: บทที่ 71 - บทที่ 80

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!"The feminine laughter echoed throughout the place as Jane rushed away from the servant quarter. The sound followed her like a curse, bouncing against the walls and slipping through every corridor she passed through. No matter how hard she tried to ignore it, it remained lodged inside her ears. She couldn't tell anymore whose laughter it belonged to, whether it was the lady of the house, Valaria, or the child of the house, Liliana. Or if they really laughed at all. Perhaps it was even her imagination that had caused her to hear that ringing laughter. Perhaps fear had finally driven her to the edge. Yet it sounded far too real, far too delighted. By the time she noticed the laughter had stopped, a shadow had spilled over her and before she could react, a hard force collided against her, making her stumble forward and bump straight into the chest of a man.When her face lifted upward to see who it was, all the blood immediately drained from her face. "V... Victor."Vi

As she continued to crawl, the tunnel remained just as pitch black as the nauseating feeling bubbling inside her chest. The darkness swallowed everything around her, leaving her with no choice but to continue forward blindly. She could only cling to the words Liliana had told her earlier. Whether there truly was an escape route hidden here or not, Jane couldn't bring herself to fully believe it. Yet at the same time, she had no other choice. Right now, all she could do was trust that Liliana had been telling the truth.The crawl felt endless. Time seemed to stretch strangely within the narrow tunnel until Jane could no longer tell how long she had been moving forward. Then, finally, she noticed something. A light. Faint and distant, but unmistakably there. Jane froze for a moment. She wasn't entirely certain whether she had truly seen it or whether her desperate wish to escape had finally begun turning into hallucinations. Her eyes remained fixed on the tiny glow ahead of her until sh

Valaria was groaning weakly on the floor while Liliana stared at Jane with wide eyes full of surprise. The little girl had clearly been under the impression that Jane had already been caught by her father after running away. She had likely thought Victor had dragged her back to wherever he kept those who disobeyed him. Yet here Jane was, standing at the doorway once more. This time, however, things were different. Liliana had been caught in the act. There was no carefully crafted image left to maintain, no sweet smile capable of hiding what she truly was. Her gaze quickly studied Jane's face and whatever she found there caused her expression to darken. Perhaps she had realized that Jane had seen enough. Perhaps she had realized that the human girl was now looking at her the same way one would look at a monster."Papa didn't do his work well today. He promised not to let you go!" Liliana stomped her heel against the floor as she whined, her childish voice echoing throughout the room.

Liliana began to writhe beneath her. Something wasn't normal with Jane anymore and every instinct in her body was screaming it. The threat Jane had made no longer sounded like an angry outburst or a desperate attempt to scare her. It sounded like certainty. The certainty of someone who had already decided exactly what they were going to do and wouldn't hesitate to carry it out. No, maybe it was even because this wasn't her first time doing what she had said, murdering a vampire. No way. That can't be. No human can ever win against a vampire, no one! And how could this be? The sudden cruelty that Jane show was just far too strange. Just moments ago Jane had been trembling. She had been scared. She had looked exactly like every other human Liliana had hunted before. So how had things suddenly changed?In that moment, Liliana's mind began racing at an unprecedented speed as she desperately tried to understand what she was seeing. Before this, Jane had been shaking with fear, displaying

Jane felt as though her entire body was drowning in a pitch-black sea. Her limbs all felt unbearably heavy as she sank deeper and deeper beneath the endless darkness, unable to see anything around her or feel anything other than the immense pressure pulling her further into a place that held nothing but emptiness and loneliness. There was no light above her, no ground beneath her feet, only an endless abyss that welcomed her without a single sound. She should have been struggling. She should have been desperately trying to swim back toward the surface, yet strangely enough, her body refused to move.She should be scared of drowning somewhere she didn't know and yet, why was it that everything felt right? It was as if she had finally found a place where she didn't have to force herself to survive anymore. No one was chasing her. No one was hurting her. No one expected anything from her. The darkness wrapped around her body like a blanket and for the first time in what felt like forever