Chapter 176 – Auction [5]
Maxim disappeared soon after, leaving the family face to face with Veronica.
The maid's mind seemed to pause. She became painfully aware that she had been manipulated and baited into revealing everything she knew about her master. Her eyes, as they settled on Sophia, were wide with fear, making her tremble and unconsciously whimper, trying to say something but only moaning and sobbing in horror.
Isolde watched the scene with cold and disgusted eyes. She had known that her father was sleeping with Veronica, but she had not been aware that it was not merely a mistress affair.
This was them discovering that the man they either called father or husband was the type of man who forcefully broke women and transformed them into slaves of his desires.
He was a man with a rotten heart and an ego bigger than what he could afford. A man who found a twisted comfort and meaning in enslaving women.
