"What?" Lucian's heart trembled violently within his chest.
He stepped forward urgently and took the thick rope from the officer's hands.
He saw clearly, one half of the rope had been cut through with a sharp blade, but the other half had only been strained and pulled thin by the weight it had carried.
A loud ringing sound filled his head, and slowly, a terrible truth settled into his mind.
He had been in such a rush that he had failed to cut the rope all the way through. He himself had been the one to kill his own wife.
"No..." At that instant, tears poured down his face without stopping.
The police took the bodies of Aurelia and Milo away to be examined further.
Lucian returned to his car, moving like a man who had lost his very soul.
It was then that he finally noticed the
