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Chapter 496 - 496/I Changed, Steve

Chapter 496

Steve's POV

I didn't hear a single thing after that. Not the maid's footsteps in the hallway, not the ticking of the wall clock, not even my own breathing. It felt as though the word had plummeted into a bottomless well, leaving me stranded on the edge, waiting forever for an echo that never came.

*I killed her*

I stared blankly into my sister's face. This was the same girl who used to weep uncontrollably if she accidentally stepped on an ant, the one who spent minutes gently escorting trapped flies out the window. She sat before me now with completely serene eyes, casually announcing she had extinguished a human life.

"Julie..." My voice emerged as a rough, gravelly rasp, dragging itself out of someone else's throat as I stumbled back a half-step. "...What... when?"

"Hours ago..." she answered, her hands resting motionless in her lap. "...After I found out the truth."

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