'Huh? What was 'for now' supposed to mean? 'Loraine wanted to ask but didn't.
In the novel the way the villain dealt with his enemies was extremely cruel. When she was just reading the novel, she thought that it was fine at least he didn't harm any innocent civilians.
But even so, his ways were still scary. She wasn't into learning those kind of things.
Loraine didn't want to follow the steps of the villain.
She doesn't want to go to the point where harming others just because they did something wrong to you would become normal just like breathing.
Back then, it was just a novel, and the damned male lead was so much more psychotic than the villain so whatever Mr. Alistair did in the novel seemed so much more tame because August Hieme was already doing all sorts of crimes that were so much worst.