Chapter: 1240

“I spared your life to teach you a lesson. Don't cross those you cannot handle."

She then drew a sharp dagger from her waistband and seized Cade's right hand, slicing across his palm. Blood traced the dagger's path.

Cade wailed in agony. "Are you working for Nora?"

With all his men defeated, he was left alone to endure the excruciating pain.

"You're not as foolish as you look," Nia remarked with a chilling smile.

Now without his left hand, and his right hand freshly wounded and bleeding, Cade was overwhelmed by fear.

He couldn't fathom why Nora, a simple pianist without any apparent powerful. connections, would have ties to Nia and the dreaded Sacredice crew.

Nia was once notorious on the assassin leaderboards. Her associate, Selene, was even more formidable.

"Why, as a major drug lord, did you target a pianist? Who put you up to this?" Nia pressed.

Cade gasped out. "I don't know. It must be someone within my ranks holding a personal grudge against her. That's all I'm aware of. I had no part in it."

"It's too late for excuses now. Look at your hand."

As Cade's gaze fell to the dark red blood staining his hand, the sharp sting of pain subdued his voice to a mere whisper.

Never before had Cade, the top drug trafficker in Bellfolk, been subjected to such brutal torture.

Even in police custody, he had experienced far more humane treatment.

Nia concluded Cade's agonizing ordeal, each scream a reclamation of the scars etched onto Nora's fingertips.

This act could be seen as Nora's vengeance.

Rising, Nia gazed down at Cade and said, “Even with your status, your life can be easily taken."

With that, she exited.

Cade crumpled to the ground. Unlike the people of Sacredice, Nia possessed a gentler heart and did not fully sever his right hand.

However, blood pooled from his left hand below him.

Clenching his teeth, he managed to free his feet using his injured right hand and made his way to the warehouse to get his phone.

"Angela, this time you've truly done me in," he muttered, anger sparking in his eyes. His current wretched state was entirely her doing.

As dawn broke the next day, Nora was up early.

Amy entered after knocking, announcing, “Nora, rise quickly. I've scheduled a plane. It will be here soon."