"What did you just say?" Valentino picked Matilda from the floor and threw her forcefully on the bed. He climbed on her and arrested both her aching arms above her head while glaring devilishly into her teary and reddened eyes.
"You heard me, you bastard!" Matilda cried harder as every part of her body ached with pain. "I regret allowing you to lay your filthy sick hands on my daughter and I pray you never find her again in your worthless life. You can kill me for all I care but you will never have Abby as your stepdaughter in this life or the next."
Hearing Matilda say all this was enough to strangle her to death and Valentino could clearly see that she was ready to die.
'No, death is too merciful for this wretch!' An evil smirk danced at the corner of his lip. 'I will spare her life and make her eat back her words at the right time.'
Hence, instead of going all nuts and asphyxiating her just like she would have wanted, he did the opposite.
