Chapter 696 Blood and Debt

Owen stared at her belly, more curious than anything. “You’re pregnant?”

Elsie shook her head. “No! It’s water! He pumped water into me—filled my belly until it stretched like this! He’s a monster!”

She thought that if she told Owen what she’d suffered, he’d feel sorry for her. But he didn’t. Owen laughed.

“You brought this on yourself.”

Elsie froze, confused.

Owen scoffed. “You’re still playing the victim? That just means he didn’t torture you enough. He should’ve pumped more water into you until you burst. Maybe then that stone-cold mouth of yours would stop lying.”

Elsie stared at him in disbelief.

“Can you even imagine how that pregnant woman you hurt must’ve felt?” Owen asked coldly. “No. This doesn’t even come close. You’ve barely begun to pay.”

His mocking gaze made Elsie turn to Lily, dropping the act completely. “Mom, he’s not planning to help me, is he?”

Lily looked torn. She glanced at Owen, then at Elsie sitting on the floor.

They were both her children—but one had secretly cut out her liver and planned to run off with the money.

The other, while down and out, still cared about her.

Lily clenched her jaw. Her bond with Owen had been shattered long ago. Back then, she’d had no choice but to rely on him. But now that Elsie was back, she had a new ally.

She had to think about her own future.

Taking a deep breath, Lily made her choice. “Elsie, hold him down with me! He’s got money—he sold off the Saunders family’s assets and the hospital too. He has thirty billion! He’s planning to keep it all to himself and leave us behind! He just had surgery, he can’t move. If we pin him down together, we can make him transfer it to me. That’s the only way we’ll survive!”

Elsie didn’t need more than three seconds to decide.

She sprang up, leapt onto the bed, and pinned Owen down with all her weight—right on top of his surgical wounds.

Lily, trembling, picked up a fruit knife and pointed it at Owen, her voice stammering, “Transf… transfer the money!”

Owen stared in stunned disbelief at the two people who’d once been closest to him.

One was crushing his chest. The other held a knife to his throat.

For a moment, his heart seemed to stop—then came a tidal wave of rage and heartbreak.

He glared at Lily. “What if I don’t? What are you gonna do—kill me?”

Lily’s hands trembled. But when she met Owen’s furious eyes, she knew that just by picking up the knife, there was no turning back. Their relationship was broken beyond repair.

So she thrust it forward.

The blade sliced his neck, drawing blood.

“I want the money! Give me the damn money!” she screamed.

Owen was stunned. Numb. In that moment, Yunice’s face flashed through his mind.

Yunice—when he slapped her…

When he shoved her…

When he kicked her…

When he ran her over with a car…

Was this how she’d felt?

Like her heart had been torn open, cold air pouring in, like she’d fallen into a bottomless pit.

Empty.

In that second, Owen finally understood the word “karma.”

Everything he’d done to Yunice had circled back like a boomerang—seven years later, it landed squarely on him.

A deep exhaustion settled into his bones. Suddenly, all the money, all the power—none of it meant anything anymore.

Everyone had turned on him. He had nothing left to hold onto.

“Fine. I’ll give it to you.” He gave in.

He wasn’t going to live much longer anyway.

Maybe this was just the punishment he deserved—for everything he’d done to Yunice.

Lily, still holding the knife in one hand, handed Owen his phone with the other.

“Transfer it now,” she demanded.

Once the money was in her account, she planned to run off with Elsie and lay low.

She felt a pang of guilt—but Owen was dying anyway. And if he could treat her like this, why couldn’t she do the same?

She handed him the phone. Owen unlocked his account.

Just as he was about to enter the amount, chaos erupted outside the room.

“Don’t move! Nobody move!”

A team of officers burst into the room and quickly restrained all three of them.

They were completely caught off guard.

A lead officer stepped forward and flashed his badge at Owen. “We received a report. You are suspected of illegal detention and abuse. You are all under arrest.”

Owen and Lily’s minds went blank.

They both instantly thought of Timothy and Peggy—still locked up in that basement.

They’d been exposed?

After a few stunned seconds, Owen held out his hands and silently accepted the cuffs.

Lily, on the other hand, struggled. “Officer, this has to be a mistake! I don’t know anything—I didn’t do anything! I just had surgery! I’m still recovering…”