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Slowly, Nicole's face transformed into a smile.
The expression only made her scars look more grotesque in the fading light.
She took a step closer to Cici. "You promised you'd grant any request if I delivered them to you."
Cici looked at the scars with disgust and stepped back. "What do you want? Money?"
Nicole shook her head. "I don't want money. I want you to give him back to me."
"...What? Are you serious?"
Cici reacted as if she'd just heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.
Her disgusted expression shifted to contempt, mockery, and pity. "He's nothing but bones now, because of you. He's been lying in this cold pond for years. How dare you even ask for him?"
Nicole's face turned ashen gray, like a corpse.
She gripped the knife hidden in her p
