I looked up at Dylan, feeling a warmth slowly spreading through my heart.
After War returned home, he had his assistant thoroughly investigate the incident from that time.
But this time, the findings were completely different from before.
The whole thing was staged by Claire herself.
She had never been tortured—those injuries were deliberately arranged by her.
Even her being sent away was her own doing, not because I'd exiled her abroad out of jealousy.
That too was a calculated act, meant to drive me away.
Yet he'd never once seen through any of it.
Remembering my repeated pleas, War's face filled with remorse.
After that, War made Claire suffer twice what I had endured.
Soon enough, Claire couldn't take it and was committed to a psychiatric hospital.
His former friends all cut
