For Lily, the last thing she saw was Aether's face as he held her in his arms while she was dying.
What led to that?
It was because she had refused to drop him off at the fake address her father had prepared.
Penelope.
Aether's ex-girlfriend.
That was the person Aether had been searching for, wasn't it?
Even though Lily did not know exactly who he was looking for, she had begun to suspect that the person her father was hiding might be Aether's ex-girlfriend.
So, she had come to retrieve that woman from her father's hiding place.
"Penelope! Are you there?!"
There was no response from inside the house.
Lily frowned and glanced at the old woman. Her expression hardened as she pressed her knife to the old woman's neck.
"Don't move."
The old woman's body stiffened. She could only nod her head nervously.
Lily turned her attention back toward the house.
She could only see the bed and the lantern.
That was all.
She narrowed her eyes before turning back toward the old woman.
