After I left, they begged for Forgiveness

Chapter 34- They must be obeyed

The rain had begun to fall—thin needles slicing through the night air as Valeria stepped out of the black car, her boots crunching on shattered glass.

She had followed the coordinates Anna whispered into her ear. A remote property on the city’s fringe. Barely on the map. Surrounded by silence.

But the silence was a lie.

Because when she walked past the outer gate

She saw them.

Bodies.

Two guards, face-down on the stone pathway. Blood already beginning to soak into the earth.

One of them had a bullet hole straight through the eye socket.

Valeria gasped, covering her mouth.

No. No no no…

Her heart galloped.

“Elijah?”she called, stumbling forward, rain soaking her hair.

She pushed the heavy door open—creaking on its hinges—and stepped into the dim foyer of the estate.

Inside, the air was thick with gunpowder.

And then she saw them.

At the end of the hall, inside a room lined with old books and old whiskey bottles arranged on shelves—

Elijah.

And his father.

The only thin