Out Of The Shadows Tilda’s Brilliant Second Life novel Chapter 391

Chapter 391 Judgment

The man did not miss a beat.

He betrayed his own daughter without batting an eyelid.

“Rebecca, you’ve seen what happens to the ones who break this family.

“Two options lie ahead of you.

“You do it yourself, or I’ll do it for you.”

He opened the small box sitting in front of the family shrine.

Inside was a knife sharp enough to slice bone.

He raised it to the flame until the steel turned red like fire.

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“You broke three rules. First, you lost to the enemy. Second, you let the video get out. Third, you dragged

the Bells into shame.

“By our law, I have to cut off three of your fingers.

“Since you’re my granddaughter, I’ll let you pick which ones.”

Abram held the knife out in front of her.

“Grandpa, I … I can’t … I just can’t…”

Rebecca’s face twisted as tears and snot smeared together.

If she had known it would come to this, she never would have stood up for Kyla.

She never would have gone after Tilda.

Now she was broken.

“If you won’t do it yourself…”

Abram pulled out a handkerchief.

Before Rebecca could move, his arm came down.

Her left pinkie was gone before she realized it.

ང་ནི་པན་མི་ར།། ང་ཁོ་

For half a breath she froze, then the pain tore through her body like fire and filled her veins with panic and

heat.

Her scream shook the chapel walls.

She clutched her bleeding hand and rolled on the floor, writhing in agony.

Jarrett was already curled in the corner with his palms pressed to his ears.

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He couldn’t make himself watch the bloodshed.

Preston and Daphne flinched hard and turned their faces away.

Ryan and Nathan never looked away.

Tilda kept her eyes on Abram too, silent as stone.

“Can’t believe Abram would do this to his own granddaughter,” she whispered.

The Bells aren’t any different from the Jensons.

One shatters the body, the other crushes the mind.

“That’s why this punishment has lasted for generations. If you’re weak, if you drag them down, they take your strength away.”

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She had kept him human when the world tried to make him a monster.

But she died when he was ten, and then Abram’s grip closed around him.

Abram never saw a grandson. He saw talent. He saw the heir.

From that moment, Jude’s life was carved into stone.

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If not for his grandmother shielding him while she lived, Abram would have thrown him into the fire even

sooner.

She had begged that he live like a normal boy. She had begged for fewer scars.

But when she died, no one could stop Abram.

From ten to twenty, Jude was forged in fire. Abram’s training was merciless, a torment no ordinary person could have survived.

Jude bore it all.

He bore it for the two women who had loved him and died because of him.

Now, inside this chapel, he looked at Tilda, and realization struck his mind.

In the middle of his endless night, she was the only light that had ever touched him.

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