Chapter 34: Witnessing Murder! (2)
"What the hell do you think you are doing??" The bone-chilling voice that spoke behind Auriela made her halt in her attempt to harm Madeline. The traumatized Madeline quickly averted her gaze, already waiting to receive the incoming stab when the familiar voice of someone instinctively made her turn her head to see who was speaking.
Like a statue, Auriela remained frozen in her position, and Cassian was quick to snatch the knife from her loosened grip. Orson moved quickly in holding Auriela back while Madeline quickly got to her feet and ran into the arms of Cassian, feeling extremely overwhelmed by everything that had happened in her presence.
The tears kept rolling down from her eyes no matter how hard she tried to stop it. This wasn’t the right time for her heart to turn weak, but she would have been dead if Cassian hadn’t intervened to stop Auriela from taking her life.
Orson, who was holding the middle-aged woman down, couldn’t feel less happier about the fact he took extra handcuffs with him. Handcuffing Auriela’s hands behind her back, he still trapped her in his hold, keeping her in place and giving her no chance to escape.
"Are you alright?" Noticing her beautiful hands were painted red with blood, Cassian was ready to inflict the same pain on whoever had made her bleed. But to his relief, it wasn’t her blood after she shook her head in response.
She pointed at Roland’s dead body with a weak shaky finger.
"Roland...he... he’s... he’s..."
"You killed him!" Auriela, who had been quiet all this while, suddenly burst into uncontrollable tears as she glared at Madeline with pure hatred in her eyes. Ever since Madeline had started living with them, Auriela had never looked at her with this much abhorrence brewing in her eyes.
"You killed him! Didn’t you? This was your doing, wasn’t it?!!" Auriela yelled at the top of her lungs. Her voice cracked in between as she was choked by her own tears.
Madeline shook her head, apparently shocked that Auriela would accuse her of something so nefarious. "I did no such thing, I swear he was like this when I came in. See.." she desperately pointed at the knives on the ground. "I tried to save him, I pulled the knives out and I called for help but no one...no one answered me, what will I gain from killing him, he’s still my uncle! He’s..!!"
"Shut your bloody mouth you murderer!" Auriela cursed, tears swimming in her eyes as she gritted her teeth in anger. "I know we never treated you right, I accept that I never showed you any humanity, but why take the life of Roland?? He was your uncle! Being the wife of someone from a high peerage, you think I’ll let you get away right after killing my...."