Madly Yours (Nora Reed) novel Chapter 482

But before she could take more than a few steps, Edmond lunged forward, grabbing her wrist with a bruising grip. His voice cracked with a pathetic, desperate plea. "I'm begging you, just give me one more chance. We can start over..."

At that exact moment, Hudson, who had just ended his call with his Uncle Arthur, was striding back onto the terrace with a slight frown. From a distance, he caught sight of Edmond frantically harassing Nora.

Hudson's brow snapped into a lethal scowl. An overwhelmingly terrifying, murderous aura instantly erupted from his dark eyes.

Seeing Edmond clutching Nora's hand and begging for a second chance, Hudson's jaw locked into an unforgiving line. The sheer, chilling bloodlust radiating from his entire body was enough to strike terror into anyone's soul.

"Arthur, give me your knife."

Without a second of hesitation, Arthur unclipped his tactical dagger and handed it over.

Hudson took it with a blank, emotionless expression and marched straight toward Edmond, the blade gripped tightly in his hand.

...

Unaware of his impending doom, Edmond continued his pathetic begging. "Nora, we were together for two years. Two whole years! Those days meant everything to me! I remember everything you did for me! I'm begging you, just one more chance! Just one!"

The grip was painful. Nora winced, her brow knitting tightly as she forcefully tried to yank her hand back. "Edmond, let go! We are completely finished!"

"No! I won't let go!"

Edmond's voice skyrocketed into a hysterical shout. "You loved me so much for those two years! You sacrificed everything for me! How can you just stop loving me? You're just angry right now, aren't you? Nora, we can start over, please..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a blinding, icy flash of steel slashed past his vision.

It happened so fast he only saw a silver blur. Before his brain could even process what it was, an agonizing explosion of pain ripped through his wrist, rocketing straight up his nerves and into his skull.

"Ah!"

"Stay... stay away from me!" Edmond's voice broke in sheer terror, his legs giving out beneath him. He scrambled desperately backward, but his spine hit a solid stone wall. He was trapped. "Murder is illegal! You... you can't kill me!"

Hudson tilted his head slightly, a dark, spine-chilling smirk spreading across his face.

His voice was a low, gravelly rasp, dripping with a terrifyingly casual laziness. "I'm having a psychotic episode. Murdering you right now is perfectly legal."

The second the words left his mouth, he raised his arm in a blur of motion, slicing the tip of the dagger directly across Edmond's face.

"Ah!"

Another bloodcurdling scream tore through the night.

Beads of blood rapidly welled up, dripping down Edmond's cheek and drawing a horrifyingly vivid crimson line across his pale skin!