The Divorced Military Queen Awakens (by Sadie Baxter) novel Chapter 663

Chapter 663 Debts And Darkness

So it was true–she was dead.

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A single question crashed through Bowen’s skull: What now? In its wake rolled a numb, directionless. dread.

Then, from beyond the thin walls, came a sudden clatter–boots, voices, danger.

Instinct yanked Bowen upright. He seized Dawn’s wrist, hauled her under the sagging bed frame, and pressed them into the stale shadows.

The door exploded inward with a splintering kick.

Several broad–shouldered men strode in, filling the room with the smell of sweat and trouble.

“Hey! The money you owe us was due yesterday. Keep stalling and we’ll-” the first man barked.

His threat snapped off mid–sentence.

All at once, they saw the corpse sprawled on the floor.

“D*mn it, she went and died on us. How are we supposed to get our money now?” one of them snarled.

“So what? She has a son, right? I saw the brat–nine years old, good–looking. We keep him till he’s grown; let him work off the debt. The kid will cover it,” another voice growled.

“He’s not here. We wait. Sooner or later, the boy will walk through that door, and we’ll be ready.”

The men kept talking, their plans turning uglier with every breath.

Under the bed, Bowen felt as though he’d been lowered into ice water; every nerve screamed with cold.

One blink and his gaze landed on his mother’s vacant stare. The sight made his body shudder uncontrollably.

Was it fear? Horror? Or the fury of a life already written? No matter how hard I fight, will I always live in her shadow?

Just then, a small hand slid over his eyes, plunging him into sudden darkness.

He had always despised the dark.

In darkness lurked every filthy secret he had ever known.

Nightfall meant the red lamp in the windows would glow, and his mother would entertain another

stranger.

Yet, for the first time, the darkness did not repulse him.

Because even in the darkness, there was warmth–the warmth of a small hand resting in his. It felt

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Chapter 663 Debts And Darkness

though it was lending him the courage to face everything before him.

His frantic, unsettled heart that had been racing moments ago finally began to calm.

If he were facing all of this alone today, he would surely be terrified right now.

But with her beside him, his fear seemed a little less overwhelming.

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He closed his eyes, yet the voices of the men in the room still rang in his ears–cold discussions of what they would do to him once they caught him, how they would turn him into nothing more than a tool for profit.

They sounded like demons, whispering of how to drag him down into hell.

And yet, the small hand covering his eyes was so warm.

As if it were trying, with all its strength, to pull him back from that hell.

Making him cling to that warmth and long for it.

Smack! A vicious slap sent Mindy stumbling before she collapsed onto the floor.

“Dad!” Emma rushed to her mother’s side, glaring angrily at her father. “How could you hit Mom just because of some orphanage kid?”

“Who gave you permission to get rid of Dawn?” Edmund snapped furiously. “I went through all the trouble of completing the adoption and bringing her into this family–and now you’re telling me she’s gone?”

“Mom and I were kind enough to take her on a picnic!” Emma shot back. “She ran off on her own and got lost. How is that our fault? If anyone’s to blame, it’s her!”

Smack! Another slap landed hard across Emma’s face.

She cried out in pain, tears welling as she clutched her cheek, staring in disbelief at the father who had always doted on her–now striking her without the slightest hesitation.

Mindy hurriedly pulled her daughter into her arms. “She’s your biological daughter!” she cried. “You’d hit her like this for an unrelated child from an orphanage? What kind of spell does that girl have on you, that you value her so much?”

“I’ve already made myself clear,” Edmund said coldly. “From now on, Dawn is the second your this household. She is to be treated properly. Don’t think I don’t know what the two of you are up te Whether she wandered off on her own–or whether you deliberately got rid of her–you know the truth!”

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