Chapter 2475

This time, the injection did not bring the searing pain that made life worse than death.

Yvonne’s cracked lips quivered. She gazed at the man before her, her tears falling in heavy, silent streams.

Jace looked back at her just as deeply, an unspoken understanding passing between them. At this moment, words were unnecessary.

“Hugh… Thank you…” Her voice was barely more than a whisper, yet it struck Jace like a hammer to the chest.

When she called him Hugh this time, he did not correct her, nor did he resist. He simply accepted it.

Since the night Yvonne had been captured, he had suffocated under the weight of regret. Every day, he lived with the tormenting thought, ‘If I hadn’t blocked her path… If I’d let her go just a moment sooner… Would she have escaped Clarice’s grasp? Would she have been spared this agony?’

“You should know… No one who enters this place ever leaves. Most do not even escape death.” His voice was low, thick with something unreadable.