Charlotte’s wheelchair glided down the hallway, coming to a halt before the so-called “flower slave”—a woman whose entire body was streaked in garish, multicolored paint.
The butler hurried to explain, “Ma’am, Miss Gladys purchased her from the black market.”
“Flower slave?” Charlotte echoed, brows knitting as she leveled her gaze at the woman’s masked face. The eyes behind the mask brimmed with unmistakable hatred. “Take off the mask,” Charlotte ordered.
Suppressing the fury in her eyes, the woman obeyed, removing her mask.
Her face was utterly ruined, unrecognizable beneath a patchwork of scars.
But Charlotte couldn’t care less about her disfigurement. What mattered was how the woman had instinctively obeyed just now—classic Heston conditioning.
Back home, there were only two women who hated Charlotte enough to glare at her with bloodshot eyes: Xena and Lena.
Judging by her build, this had to be Xena.
Everything clicked for Charlotte at once.
The butler ventured, “Ma’am, this poor woman’s been through a lot—covered in paint and all… Would you like me to set her free?”
“Set her free?” Charlotte let out a cold laugh. “That’s not just paint. It’s a toxic chemical compound. Under the lights it looks dazzling, but a single touch is enough to poison someone, slowly and painfully.”
“She wants to take everyone around her with her—that’s practically terrorism. And you think I should just let her walk?”
The butler flinched back in horror. Xena’s ruined face twisted into a vicious grin.
Step by step, she advanced on Charlotte, her voice fraying at the edges of madness. “So you figured it all out, huh? Perfect. Charlotte, let’s die together!”
Xena lunged.
But the moment she moved, Charlotte drew a silenced pistol from under her wheelchair. A single, clean shot rang out.
Xena froze in place, a neat bullet hole in her forehead. Her eyes, wide with disbelief, stared at nothing as she toppled backward like a felled tree.


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