deformed bone

Reed, who had been hiding not far away, stepped forward, grabbed Madeleine's hair, and dragged her back to the room.Madeleine's fingers were still on the doorknob, Reed frowned, and he broke Madeleine's fingers from the doorknob one by one.

"Arsonist! You arsonist! Isa was burned! You killed Isa!"

Madeleine kept struggling and jumping under Reed's suppression, like a fish just caught out of the water.Her eyes were red, and her ferocious expression was like that of a devil.As she growled, saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth and onto her chest.

"Wow, that's a bit of a hassle."

Reed glanced at Calvin, then at Madeleine under him.He pressed Madeleine's arms on her back, and then forcibly dragged Madeleine back to the sofa.

Calvin suddenly sneered amid Madeleine's crazy cursing.

He took out a notebook, an outdated old book, which recorded the businesses Grian handled.And among those cheap papers, there were also many printed documents and photos-these things were found in Glien's office, and they were placed together with the pyramid-shaped rolls of US dollars.

Regardless of Madeleine's crying, Calvin squatted down in front of the woman.

He pulled out a photo from his notebook and shook it in front of Madeleine's eyes—the scene in the photo was so disgusting that even Madeleine, who had gradually started to go crazy again, fell silent for a moment. .

"Do you know what this is?"

Calvin said softly.

He opened the notebook and placed it in front of Madeleine so that she could see the contents clearly...

"Do you need me to explain it to you? Everything I said just now is what happens to those lucky people who can be obedient and brainwashed. You know how the Adventists are with other people-gangsters, or Did the smugglers from the dark web cooperate with the bustards in the red light district?"

"Woooooooo..."

Cloudy tears flowed from Madeleine's eyes.

Calvin ignored her, and he told Madeleine one by one in front of the woman what he had investigated, felt, and what he had seen with his own eyes.

Calvin didn't even know how long it took him to finish those words, he knew that when he finally stopped, Madeleine couldn't move any more without Reed's suppression.

She slumped to the ground, sobbing extremely mournfully.

"I...I can't..."

I don't know how long it took before Calvin heard her whispering from behind her fingers.

"Those people...those people were really good to me in the beginning, no one has been that kind to me...I just...don't know...I just want Isa to have a good life too... ...I didn't think... I really didn't think..."

Madeleine kept repeating this sentence.

"Then, you just gave Isha to those demons."

Calvin said.

His words seemed to trigger an invisible switch, Madeleine suddenly let go, she grabbed Calvin by the collar, and then yelled at Calvin——

"You know shit! You little fagot who can sell your ass to live easily! Do you fucking know what life I live?! What right do you have to accuse me here! You don't know those things How beautiful, kind, and warm people can be at the very beginning—” Madeleine trembled uncontrollably as she spoke, and her sharp roar was once again overwhelmed by sobs and tears, “I just… …want to live better. I want someone to treat me better than being dragged off the ground in the middle of the night and stuffing ten dollars in my panties and saying 'hey old bitch, do you want Let's have something more exciting'..."

Calvin stared at Madeleine in silence.

"If it's just me suffering, I can live with it. Really, but those people, those people are terrible, that bunch of scum sometimes look at Isa like that, and I want to pluck their eyeballs out...but I can't help it, I still pay my rent and social security on those people. God, I just want Isa to grow up in a better environment, I hate her to hear that... I...I want her to be brought up in a more righteous and moral environment...Am I doing something wrong...I don't know...you tell me...why I just want my little one to live Better, but lost her in the end? They say that's my baby, but my baby shouldn't look like that..."

Madeleine's gaze became cloudy and distracted bit by bit.

After mentioning Isa, her sanity and sobriety were pulled far away again.Maybe it was an instinct of self-preservation in her, but whenever Isa was involved, she had to go mad to get away from the pain that nearly destroyed her.

"I should go find Isha."

Madeleine let go of her hand, and she looked beyond Calvin to a further place.

"It's so late, it's too dangerous for a little girl like her to be outside."

Madeleine murmured vaguely.She looked around her in a panic, as if she didn't quite understand why she suddenly appeared here.

Calvin stared blankly at Madeleine like this, and for some reason he thought of Isa's rotten and swollen face and her lifeless whispers again.

"But Isha is still dead."

Calvin said softly.Madeleine rolled her eyes blankly, as if she had removed Calvin and Reed from her world.

Reed stepped forward, he raised his hand and pressed down hard on a certain part of Madeleine's neck, he maintained that position, after dozens of seconds, Madeleine rolled her eyes back, and then she didn't say anything Fainted out with a sound.

"Thank you."

Calvin gave a weary thank you.

Reed placed Madeleine in another spare bedroom in the cabin.Of course, the "arrangement" referred to here actually refers to taping Madeleine's hands and feet, then throwing her on the bed, and finally locking all the windows and doors of the room.

While doing these things, Reed looked back at Calvin from time to time.

"Very good, I think I'm getting more and more of that kidnapper's style now." Perhaps just to relax the atmosphere, Reed muttered with a wry smile.

But after Hao said that, the atmosphere in the room became unpredictably heavy and awkward.

"Just kidding," Reed added dryly.

Calvin sighed.

"Maybe I shouldn't be so impulsive," he said.

"The impulse you mean...?"

Walking out of the room, Reed put the key in the lock and turned it around. He was satisfied with the slight movement of the heavy fall of the lock.

"The fire in Angel Town, Grian's business, and the fact that I was an arsonist." Calvin said calmly and in a low voice.

"Well, this..."

Reed looked at Calvin tenderly, and a light just fell into his eyes obliquely, dyeing the clear and transparent emerald green pupils with a layer of golden light.

"I think it's just a small problem, and we will always find a way to solve it."

Reed dragged Calvin in front of him, and then he hugged Calvin.Reed's chest was as warm and thick as ever, and Calvin even had an illusion that as long as Reed wanted, this green-eyed man could easily wrap Calvin's whole body.

"Also, while you insist that you have no feelings of pity or sympathy for that woman... I still feel that it wasn't such a bad decision to tell her about it. She lost her own child, and she really should have Knowing that those who killed her daughter have been engulfed in flames, you have avenged that poor little girl in your own way. I think she will want to hear that."

"Maybe, but the reality is that I have indeed exposed my identity, and it is very likely that I have planted more dangerous hidden dangers for the future."

Calvin buried his head on Reed's shoulder, and he said dryly.

"Are you sad?"

Reed asked in Calvin's ear.

Calvin hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"Yes, I'm sorry."

Reed bowed his head, and kissed Calvin's cold, dry lips.A strong sense of security spread throughout Calvin's body along with heat.

When the two of them finally separated, Calvin already felt much better.

And the constant swirl of emotion in his heart gave him a dangerous urge to get a definite answer from Reed.

Or rather, a promise.

"Calvin?" Noticing Calvin's gaze, Reed tilted his head worriedly, "Still worried?"

"No, it's nothing, I just think I should take a shower first. Well, I stink a little...God knows how you were so determined to hug me just now."

Calvin subconsciously changed the subject.

"Oh, the only thing I can smell is the fragrance of your skin."

Reed chuckled and made a small joke.

"That sentence sounds a bit disgusting, really."

Calvin replied.

On the surface everything looks normal to him...

But only Calvin knew that in the depths of his soul, his instinct and reason were pulling each other, maybe...

Perhaps under such circumstances, it is not a wise choice to clarify the relationship with Reed.

Calvin said to himself in his heart.

After all, both he and Reed are on an extremely dangerous, escape journey.And Reed's situation is also very complicated.

He doesn't just represent him, there are other personalities inhabiting his body.

Calvin's rationality knew that theoretically those personalities belonged to the same person, but when he got along with Fogg, Virgil, and even Moses and Histu, he could clearly feel the relationship between those people. are quite different.

They wake up alternately in the same body, but... they are not a whole.At least Calvin had no way of seeing them as the same person.