A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust novel Chapter 947

The crowd looked on, visibly unsettled, as if they'd stumbled onto a scandalous secret.

No one dared break the silence.

After all, neither Silas nor Nigel was someone you wanted to cross.

And as for Calliope… everyone wondered—could she really be that sort of person? If Silas ever found out about this, wouldn't it be the end of her?

“Nigel, don’t you think you should step back a bit?” Lisette challenged, fixing him with an icy stare. “Anyone else could stand up for her, but you? Out of everyone here, you’re the least appropriate to play her defender, aren’t you?”

Nigel’s gaze was cold and dangerous as he looked at her. “Oh? Do you have a problem with that?” he said, his voice low. “Or do you just enjoy making wild assumptions?”

In a flash, Nigel lunged, his hand closing tightly around Lisette’s throat. The movement was so quick, so sudden, that the room seemed to freeze. All eyes snapped to them, panic flickering in every face.

Monty and a couple of others, who’d been idly watching, were caught off guard.

Valerian was so terrified he didn’t even try to intervene.

His fear of Nigel was legendary—Nigel was infamous for his unpredictability, a reckless madman who broke the rules at will and never cared what anyone thought. He was the kind of man everyone believed was capable of anything.

“Wild assumptions?” Nigel’s voice was venomous as his grip tightened. “What, would you prefer I say I have feelings for you? That I’m so infatuated I want to strangle you?”

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