Chapter 44 (1/2)

Chapter 44: Chapter 5 Wi GaHyun-1

The beautiful gold-trimmed coffee cup, the aromatic coffee within, the sweet shortbread cheesecake, and the handsome man sitting opposite her—these were the things Alice liked at Heart's house.

Heart twirled Alice's lovely golden hair around his fingers. It meant nothing, but he repeated it without getting tired of it. Alice dropped her head to hide her rose-colored cheeks. Then his fingers lifted her chin. The wrist attached to those fingers was wrapped in bandages, but Alice did not see them.

”I will tell you the third hint: there are eyes everywhere.”

Heart told her with smiling eyes and a soothing voice.

Alice Liddell had restored Shirley Howard with her healing powers. She had made sure no one was around to see, but eyes are not owned only by humans. The security cameras in the area caught this on tape, and as a consequence, her parents were killed.

Alice frowned and pouted, pretending not to understand it. Her pink lips were as pretty as a rose about to bloom, but Heart did not kiss her.

Disappointed, she whined, ”How is this a hint?”

But all Heart did was to continue to smile. Alice Liddell tried to creep up as she stared, in a trance, at him. But the moment she felt Alice Liddell, she closed her lips.

”GaHyun? You don't look well all of a sudden. Is there something wrong?”

Instead of answering, she shook her head, her eyes like crescent moons.

”I might be getting a cold…”

She barely got an answer out as she hurried from the drawing room. Heart's smiling lips slowly made their way back down. Last night, the wire had almost got cut off his leg, and it throbbed.

She locked the bedroom door, hid under the covers, and began her fight with Alice Liddell.

The strength of Alice Liddell's consciousness was becoming tougher and longer. Now, Alice Liddell would rise in her during even the slightest moments of relaxation. Alice cursed viciously at Alice Liddell, who pleaded for her body back. She forced Alice Liddell back down and chewed her fingernails nervously. I need a plan.

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That night, Alice dreamt. She realized she was in a dream was because her surroundings were unnaturally dark. She looked around until she found a blurry shape and started to walk toward it. As she got closer, the shape became clearer. A glittering golden-haired girl was asleep in the fetal position.

Alice knew this was her chance. Her fingers felt heavy, and she smiled as she sensed a familiar feeling in her hands.

Suddenly Alice Liddell opened her eyes. Alice Liddell looked up with wide eyes as Alice hovered over her with a kitchen knife. Upon seeing this, Alice Liddell got up swiftly and ran away.

”She's not a complete idiot,” Alice mumbled pleasantly while watching the back of Alice Liddell.

This place was a dream. The stronger person would win.

Several obstacles blocked Alice Liddell's path as she attempted to run away. She was stopped by a wall, by a crowd of people, and a car almost hit her, but she kept running. Because she had been running so fast, she tripped over her feet and fell hard. She got up and tried to run again, but a wall rose in front of her.

Alice smiled and looked down at Alice Liddell. Blue eyes filled with fear looked back at her. That girl had looked like her too. Just like the stupid and naive Alice Liddell in the book Wonderland, her first love had been stolen: Ye SoYoon. Although the man's face was now just a blurry memory, her feeling of hatred toward the girl was still intact.

”I'll do to you what I did to that girl.”

She was just like that disgusting girl who died without even putting up a fight. Before I came here, I made a silly mistake. If I had just gotten rid of her through the false rumors instead of getting caught while finishing her off, he would have never treated me like that.

I will not repeat the same mistake. Alice lifted the kitchen knife. At that moment, Alice Liddell pushed her and ran away.

”Where are you going?”

Through the darkness, Alice grabbed Alice Liddell's flowing hair. Her golden hair, blue eyes, beautiful face—she wanted to destroy all the features that looked like her. A piercing scream echoed through the darkness.

”Why aren't you fighting back? You were torturing me all this time! Why don't you do that now?”

A river of blood poured out of the butchered body. Alice threw Alice Liddell into the pool of blood. The destroyed body had already breathed its last breath.

Alice spat over the body. She wanted to make sure she never saw Alice Liddell again. As she thought this, Alice Liddell's body sank into the pool of blood. Alone in this world, Alice laughed maniacally.

In that moment, SoYoon, who had been driving, felt a presence and stopped the car. One of the corpses stacked in a back seat, a small girl meant for Duke, started to move. SoYoon started the car again and parked the car in front of Wonderland.

She dumped the other corpses into the slums and lifted the small girl over her shoulders. The once-cold body had regained some warmth.

She entered one of the empty houses, put down the girl, and examined her. She looked to be about 14 years old, had dark, short hair and a chic look about her, like a cat. SoYoon was sure that she had been dead when the girl had been placed into the car.