Chapter 3

But the next second, I heard Jax casually interject, “But Chloe studies piano. If her hands were injured, how could she have gotten even better these past few years?”

Seraphina instantly looked at me. “Not a single word you two siblings say is true!”

“You’re all lying to me. You deliberately caused my child’s death, and now you want to clear your names? Don’t even think about it!”

“Never mind if she dies, even if she really dies! I’d throw a huge party to celebrate.”

I shivered, almost collapsing to my knees.

My heart felt like it was being squeezed, the pain suffocating.

My voice barely a whisper, “Then go ahead and celebrate. She really is dead. Killed by your little boyfriend.”

At my words, Seraphina lost her temper. She lunged forward and viciously kicked my knee.

That knee had an old injury from years ago, from kneeling and searching for her in the rubble.

Now, any force would make it throb with pain.

I fell to the ground. Seraphina froze, not reacting immediately.

The next second, her face was filled with contempt. She looked at me coldly, “Asher, I barely touched you, and you’re already on your knees playing the victim? A grown man pulling this pathetic stunt, isn’t that disgusting?”

Jax walked up, a mocking smile on his face. “Maybe Asher just loves Seraphina too much, always trying to get her attention with all sorts of tricks, even using his own sister’s life.”

I lay on the ground, my knee throbbing.

It felt like blood was slowly seeping from the old wound.

I managed a bitter laugh. “I’m not lying. He knows better than anyone where the wound on his arm came from.”

“Jax, do you dare to show the wound? Prove that it wasn’t my sister who left it there!”

Jax’s eyes darted around in panic. He grabbed Seraphina’s arm.

His frightened reaction only confirmed my suspicion.

“Jax, am I the one lying, or are you?”

Seraphina frowned, looking at the frantic Jax.

She felt a strange curiosity. She tilted her head and asked softly, “Where did your injury really come from?”

Jax’s eyes were slightly red, his thin lips pressed together again and again, still unwilling to speak.

He looked wronged and helpless.

Seraphina immediately grew suspicious. She grabbed his arm. “Don’t be afraid, tell me, and I’ll back you up!”

Jax clenched his fist, looking troubled. “But my wound was just bandaged. If I forcefully remove it, it’ll need to be re-bandaged later. It hurts so much.”

Hearing this, Seraphina frowned tightly. “Why should Jax suffer just because of your few words? What if his injury wasn’t caused by your sister?”

I forced myself up. “What do you want?”

Jax lowered his head, revealing a mischievous smirk.

“If it wasn’t Chloe who left it, then Asher can kneel and apologize to me.”

A single sentence brought the entire corridor to silence.

My palms trembled, but Seraphina was only quiet for a second before nodding in agreement. “Fine, after all, Asher, you’re accusing Jax of murder. That’s no small matter.”

“Kneeling and apologizing isn’t too much.”

“Now you have no turning back. Even if you regret it and are too afraid to look, you’ll still have to kneel and apologize to Jax, admit you slandered him.”

My palms clenched. Humiliation crawled up from my feet.

It filled my heart.

She had me cornered. Whether I looked or not, I had to kneel and apologize.

But if I looked, and the wound was confirmed to be from my sister, then Jax’s guilt for murder would be undeniable.

I gritted my teeth and grimly agreed.

Seraphina smirked, then prepared to unwrap Jax’s bandage.

But as her hand went up, Jax stopped her. He looked hesitant. “Seraphina, after you see it, you can’t get mad.”

The smile on Seraphina’s lips froze, somewhat strained. “What’s there to be mad about?”

Then she gently unwrapped the bandage. What lay beneath was a fresh, bloody wound.

My eyes widened as I looked.

I stepped forward.

Then suddenly stumbled back, almost losing my balance completely.

“No, that’s not right. In that video… I saw everything.”

Distraught and helpless, I pulled out my phone and played the video.

Chloe’s tortured cries echoed in the corridor.

I clearly saw her turn over and bite fiercely into Jax’s arm.

Why was the wound on Jax’s arm now not a human bite, but clearly that of a large dog?

Jax said pitifully, “Seraphina, I have a big dog, and it bit me today because it wasn’t behaving. You don’t like dogs, so I didn’t want you to know. You won’t blame me, will you…?”

Seraphina breathed a sigh of relief. She reached up and ruffled his hair.

Right in front of me, she stood on her tiptoes and kissed his lips. “Silly, of course, I won’t blame you. I’m just worried you got bitten.”

Then she looked at me with disgust. “Now you’ve seen it, right? Turn off your fake video and kneel and apologize to Jax!”

My mind was buzzing, I couldn’t hear anything else she said.

I just kept watching the video on my phone again and again. If the video was fake, then what about my sister’s injuries?!