"H-How did this happen?" Edith asked, her voice shaking so badly that it nearly cracked.She was being held up by a maid, her legs so weak she could barely stand.Her gaze swept over the torn clothes on the floor, then shot up to land on my scar-covered body. Her face, always so composed, was now deathly pale.I stood there numbly, staring at the stunned faces around me. My ears were ringing, and my vision swam, making it hard to make out the people around me.Lucille snapped out of it faster than Edith. She instinctively stepped forward and reached out to touch me.But just as her fingertips were about to make contact, Edith suddenly screamed with bloodshot eyes, "Don't touch him! Lucille, you're about to marry Trenton, so don't you dare touch Elmer!"Lucille froze in place, as if those words had nailed her to the spot.She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She simply stared in a daze at the gruesome injuries on my body, her face slowly turning ashen.While they were lo
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