Thomas' body slid down the wooden door and leaned against the door. His head tilted as he slowly lost his life.
James looked at Thomas, who was killed by him in a fit of rage, and felt extremely confused.
Thomas killed his father, and he killed him with his own hands. Just before he died, he was told that he might be his biological father!
James felt like he was going to break down. He didn't know what he should do.
The panicked James couldn't help but think of his mother. She was his only remaining family member and the only person he could rely on. He instinctively wanted to seek refuge from his mother as he was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
However, when he turned around again and looked at his mother with eyes full of panic, helplessness, and expectation, Elizabeth looked at him with a strange, hateful gaze.
"What kind of monster are you?"
Elizabeth said through gritted teeth.
Although she instinctively pushed Thomas' gun away and saved James, she didn't expect that she would kill Thomas. If she had known, she wouldn't have made such a choice.
In fact, Elizabeth didn't have a deep relationship with James.
Before James, Elizabeth and John Howlett had a son, but he died not long after James was born.
Elizabeth had been obsessed with the death of her first son, John Jr., so she ignored James and didn't care much about him.
James' body was abnormally weak since he was young. He would catch colds and fever easily, and he often had allergic symptoms.
Elizabeth almost never took care of him. When he was sick, it was Victor and John Howlett who took care of him most of the time.
Therefore, in Elizabeth's heart, James' position was actually not that important.
Elizabeth stopped Thomas from killing him out of instinct, but if she had to choose between a lover and a son who was not close and had grown claws like a monster, she would most likely choose the former. Otherwise, she wouldn't have ignored James for so many years.
As for her feelings for Thomas, the two of them had been lovers for so many years until John Howlett found out about it and chased Thomas away. Thomas was also unwilling to be 'separated', so he brought a shotgun to Howlett's manor to kidnap her after getting drunk.
When Y'lisabet heard Thomas pounding on the door and calling her name, she did not turn him away. Instead, she opened the door for him in her thin pajamas without changing her clothes.
Of course, she didn't open the door to leave with him. She didn't want to leave this manor and give up her rich life to be a poor farmer's wife with Thomas.
She just wanted to appease Thomas and let him leave temporarily. She didn't want him to make a big deal out of it so that she could continue to have an affair behind John Howlett's back.
However, she didn't expect Thomas didn't listen to her at all. He wanted to take her away. When John Howlett showed up to stop him, he shot him, killed.
Although she felt of guilt and regret, deep in her heart, her feelings for her lover, Thomas, of course, was far more than John Howlett's and James's.
It had to be said that Thomas and Elizabeth were indeed a pair of lovers. They were heartless to their wives and husbands, and they had no feelings for their own son.
Elizabeth didn't care about James while Thomas beat Viktor up. When James charged at him with his claws outstretched, Thomas didn't hesitate to raise his shotgun. If Elizabeth didn't push the gun barrel away to stop him from killing more people, the bullet would have hit James, just like how he killed John Howlett!
Now, because of her intervention, she saved her son who had turned into a "monster" from Thomas's gun. However, her "lover" was killed by her "monster" son. This filled her with hatred for James.
Faced with his mother Elizabeth's hateful eyes and the question of 'what kind of monster are you?', James instantly felt that his last mental support had collapsed. He had completely lost the last protection he had in this world. A bone-piercing coldness completely drowned him. His mind, which had been extremely fragile in the first place, had completely collapsed!
At this moment, he only wanted to escape from this place and get away from everything!
And that was exactly what he did. James rushed out of the open door barefooted in his red pajamas. Facing the biting cold wind of the late autumn night, he ran as fast as he could and quickly disappeared into the night.
In a short period of time, James experienced his adoptive father being shot by his biological father. He grew two pairs of bone claws on his hands and turned into a "monster". Then, he used them to kill his biological father and was hated by his mother.
This series of events caused the young James's fragile spirit to completely collapse. He rushed into the dark night recklessly, running aimlessly in an unknown direction with all his strength. His mind was blank, and only one sentence kept ringing in his mind: Get out of here!
James found out about his true identity. It turned out that he wasn't John Howlett's biological son. That manor naturally wasn't his home, and all his relatives had either been killed or viewed him as an enemy. Overnight, he had become completely helpless in this world. That originally warm home had been completely destroyed, and he could no longer return to it!
James, who couldn't bear this huge change and blow, chose to escape. At this moment, he only wanted to get as far away from this sad place as possible.
Because the manor was located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, although the terrain was flat, there were still many dense forests around.
Running in the night, James quickly entered a forest. He didn't have the slightest intention to stop. Stepping on the thick leaves, he continued to run into the depths of the forest.
But soon, a figure caught up with him from behind. With a leap, the figure hugged him and threw him to the ground.
James, who fell, quickly struggled to get up from the ground. He quickly turned around, clenched his fists in front of his chest, and shouted in panic.
"I didn't want to kill him! I didn't want to! "
And the one who pushed him down was Viktor, who had chased after him after he escaped.
"You've already killed him!"
Viktor loudly interrupted James's instinctive defense. In order to catch up with James, he couldn't help but gasp for breath. After pausing for a moment to catch his breath, Viktor looked straight into James' eyes and said very seriously.
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