Chapter 88

Raya’s POV

“Matilda I am…”

“Will the potion not work, Miss Bella?” asked the little girl.

“Who did this to you?” Whoever could do this to a child was not a person with any reasoning or compassion and should be locked in a dungeon and the keys should be thrown away and forgotten.

She did not reply me.

“Matilda, who did this to you?”

“Will it not work if you do not know?” she asked.

“Is it Lord Christopher?” I asked trying to do my best to keep my voice from breaking.

“Miss Bella, I… I cannot say,” she told me.

“Why not?” I asked.

“If I do, I would die the next time,” said Matilda, I could not see her face as she had her back to me but I could tell from the tone of her voice that she was sobbing.

I wanted to draw her close to me and have her cry in my arms but I reasoned it was best to first put her out of her misery by applying the blood.

I looked at the wounds that had sprinkled ugliness on Matilda’s beau