A Replacement Bride

Chapter 295

Although Katherine already had a few unproven speculations in her mind before she got there, she was sure her suspicions were correct when she saw Eddie trying to kill Mike.

Nevertheless, Eddie only smiled in a sinister manner without even bothering to deny it. "You know what? You're right, but what're you going to do about it? The Frasers deserve to go to hell, anyway! I'm just doing what should be done in the name of God!"

"Really?" She snorted with a cold grunt. "Mike might have done something terrible in the past, but his family is innocent. How dare you go around taking innocent lives in the name of God!" A few seconds later, she pressed on and questioned Eddie, demanding, "What did Mike do to make you hate him so much?"

Although Katherine was able to predict Mike's irredeemable sins, she couldn't tell what really happened in the past. However, she was curious to know why Eddie hated Mike to the bones, wondering what kind of vendetta could motivate Eddie so much that he would hurt the Frasers. NôvelDrama.Org content.

Eddie gritted his teeth, speaking hatefully like a beast grinding its teeth. "What did he do? Do you want to know? Fine, let me tell you. He killed more than twenty innocent lives back then for the sake of the Fraser Family's interest. Can you imagine that? I bet you don't even know that at all, do you?"

As soon as Katherine and Joaquin heard about Mike's crime, they exchanged gazes shortly before Joaquin frowned and replied, "I'm not going to lie. This is the first time I've heard about this matter, but we're talking about more than twenty lives here. It wasn't something trivial, so how did whoever was behind this manage to keep this covered for so many years?"

"What was so difficult about that? The Fraser Family had a part in many intricate connections all over Kyoland, so what do you think those twenty lives were to Mike? To him, their lives didn't matter, and

pulling a few strings was all he needed to do to get away with it. Furthermore, since the water in Kyoland was always polluted, Mike had nothing to worry about when he covered his tracks, not to mention the Fraser Family's power and influence back in the day!"

Katherine squinted and shifted her gaze to Mike, only to see him keeping his head down with a pale face. At the same time, his forehead was covered in sweat, indicating that he was likely guilty of what he did back then. A few moments later, he smiled bitterly and murmured, "Y-Yeah, it was all my fault. I deserve what's coming to me…"

"Haha. What do you think is going to change by admitting your mistakes now?" Eddie fixed his bloodshot eyes on Mike as if he was trying to drill a hole through his chest. "Do you think those people who lost their innocent lives back then could just come back to life because of that?"

At that moment, Joaquin noticed something worth asking after hearing Eddie's words. "So, what does that have to do with you?" he asked coldly.

As soon as Eddie heard that, his forehead was covered in veins so obvious that he looked like an angry beast. "My little boy was among the innocent people who lost their lives, and you asked what that has to do with me?! You have no idea how much I wish I could just skin this man alive and drink his blood! I pray for him to go to hell, where he will rot for eternity!"

It was then that Katherine finally understood why Eddie had gone into hiding over the years and why he attacked Mike at the Fraser Residence. "So, the reason you've been trying to hurt the Frasers is that you realized they were responsible for that matter, right?" she asked.

Eddie smashed the glass onto the ground without denying Katherine's accusation. "You're right! It was me who hired someone to put the man-faced curse on the Frasers so that they suffered from its effects. In fact, the five senior officials, who also suffered from this incident, were the ones that protected Mike despite the crime he committed back then. They covered his tracks for him, which was the reason that

made me take the opportunity to put the curse on them when they gathered together. Haha! It was a sight for sore eyes to see them suffering from a fate worse than death, but guess what? Karma didn't do me justice when some spoilsport decided to step in and rescue those idiots. Besides, whoever was behind that even invented an antidote and thwarted my plan!"

After hearing Eddie's story, Katherine blinked in silence, pondering what else to find out. Just when she was about to ask her questions a few moments later, she suddenly felt dizzy and fatigued. As strange as the feeling was, it was also accompanied by unbearable pain like all her organs were intertwined together. In that instant, she knitted her eyebrows, sensing something wrong just when she was about to run a quick diagnosis on herself, only to realize she couldn't even lift her hand. The moment she tried to move, she immediately collapsed onto the ground, completely succumbing to the pain that made her feel as if all her organs were out of place.

When Joaquin saw that, he quickly crouched down to get a hold of her. "Are you alright, Katherine? What's wrong?" he asked with a hoarse voice, his face turning pale.

She was covered in a cold sweat, clenching her jaw in pain while shaking her head. "I don't know…" Although she didn't run a diagnosis on herself, she could tell from the strange feeling she had that she must have been poisoned, yet the poison was one she had never seen before. The next second, she gritted her teeth and glared at Eddie, questioning, "W-What did you do to me?"

Joaquin radiated a chilly aura when he heard that from Katherine, whereupon he immediately shifted his attention to Eddie. At the same time, Eddie stood up unconcernedly with a sinister smile on his face. "You're smart indeed. It took you sooner than I thought to figure out it was me."

Joaquin's eyes were filled with rage, his face written with anger like a demon that was crawling out of hell to wreak havoc. "What! Have! You! Done?!" He gritted his teeth and demanded an answer from Eddie as if he was about to kill the man standing before him anytime.

However, Eddie only smiled in an unconcerned manner. "Oh, you don't scare me, Mr. Levisay. I'm the one who decides whether the woman you love is going to live or die now, so you'd better watch your tone when you're talking to me." At the same time, the man produced a little vial from his pocket and flashed it right in front of his eyes. "The poison in Miss Cornell's body is my latest creation, extracted from the man-faced curse and refined to be better. It's about ten thousand times more lethal than the man-faced curse I spread out earlier. Therefore, the only way for her to get rid of the poison and survive is to take my antidote pill, or she is going to suffer from excruciating pain as her organs start to fail one by one from the poison attack until she dies a painful death. So, what do you think, Mr. Levisay?"

After hearing Eddie's sinister intention, Joaquin was taken over by his anger, his eyes turning red like a beast. In the meantime, Katherine was overwhelmed by agony as she began to shiver uncontrollably from head to toe. However, she clung to her will and restrained herself from crying in pain, staring at Eddie hatefully. Jeez! I can't believe I fell for an evil scheme of someone like this man! He must have intentionally told us the story to buy himself some time for his poison to kick in.

In the meantime, Mike was also stunned by what he saw. "Eddie Scott-Tutton!" The man added while panting, "I-I don't care how much you hate me, but why are you hurting these innocent people? Since I'm the one you want, just direct your anger at me!"

"Shut your mouth up! You, of all the people here, do not get to say that!" Eddie snarled at Mike like a madman. "When you took my son's life back then, did you ever spare a thought for him? He was also innocent!"