and I nodded.
The atmosphere was tense, as if life hung by a thread.
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The door opened, and a woman who looked like a shrew rushed in.
She saw me and immediately charged towards me, grabbing my hair.
“You bitch! Where have you taken my son and daughter–in–law? They’ve disappeared, and how dare you sit here safely! Give me back my son and daughter–in–law!”
I realized then that the person who had rushed in was my former mother–in–law, Lucas’s mother.
I painfully grabbed her arm in return, but her strength was too great for me to break free.
“Let go of my daughter.”
A deep voice sounded in front of me, chilling to the bone, but it gave me a sense of security.
I looked up through tears of pain and saw my father standing in front, holding a sharp boning knife that was still dripping with blood.
“Ah!”
Perhaps this scene was too shocking, but before my former mother–in–law could finish her scream, my mother walked out of the kitchen slowly, also holding a bloody boning knife.
Her face was cold, and the boning knife was still dripping with blood.
My former mother–in–law’s scream stopped abruptly.
She had fainted from fright.
