She Became My Friend’s Mother-In-Law - Chapter 111

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Chapter 111. A Murderer! (1)
Moments earlier.
“This cannot be….”
I opened my eyes with a gasp that felt like suffocation.
Darkness enveloped the room entirely.
My chest heaved roughly.
My breathing came in sharp gasps, as though someone had just released their grip from my throat.
“Haah, hah….”
The dream I’d just experienced lingered with vivid clarity.
‘You wretched child! A beating is what you deserve!’
In the dream, my past self wielded a rod against me.
The same violence and venom I had once inflicted upon Rainer.
My aged self had crawled across the floor to escape that terrifying rod.
All the dignified composure I had maintained meant nothing.
There was only the desperate need to flee from that dreadful weapon.
“Haah….”
As my breathing finally steadied.
I opened the drawer of the nightstand beside my bed with trembling hands.
Since arriving in this room.
I had been plagued by nightmares, waking abruptly from sleep.
So I had been taking sleeping medication prescribed by the Physician.
But the drawer was empty.
“Hah….”
Nothing ever goes according to my wishes.
I sighed and rang the bell beside me.
Margaret soon entered cautiously.
“Dowager Duchess, did you call for me?”
“The medication is gone. Bring the Physician to me.”
“Ah, yes. Understood….”
Yet Margaret did not leave the room immediately.
My eyes narrowed at this.
“What is it?”
“Well, that is….”
Margaret hesitated briefly before speaking.
“I have something to tell you regarding the Physician.”
“What about him?”
“I have been watching him carefully, just to be certain….”
In case the Physician had been ordered by the Duke and Duchess to harm me.
Margaret had been vigilantly observing him.
And in doing so, she had discovered something suspicious.
“You’ve been in frequent contact with the Young Lady, I see. Particularly, I’ve witnessed heated arguments in Jeremy’s Bedroom.”
“What?”
At the mention of Jeremy, Elise’s gaze sharpened.
“You’re saying she raised her voice in the child’s room?”
“Yes, the young master seemed accustomed to it—I didn’t even hear him crying.”
“Ha!”
Elise was utterly appalled.
While she remained in this room.
Rosena had been ruining the child.
Jeremy was the precious bloodline destined to inherit House of Hays!
“And here I thought she at least knew how to properly care for her own child. But of course—base blood tells.”
Elise clicked her tongue and rose from her seat.
She intended to separate Rosena from Jeremy’s side immediately.
“Dowager Duchess! Perhaps I should go instead—”
“No. I’ll go myself.”
Margaret rushed forward in alarm.
But Elise raised her hand to stop her.
“You go to the Physician. Obtain more sedatives, and check on Jeremy’s condition as well.”
“Yes… understood, Dowager Duchess.”
Margaret bowed her head and hurried away down the opposite Corridor.
The Manor lay shrouded in the profound silence of deep night.
The air was so still that even breathing seemed to echo loudly.
Elise made her way directly to Jeremy’s Bedroom.
As she drew closer, her heart began to race with an inexplicable unease.
Something felt terribly wrong.
Yet Elise pressed forward, ignoring the sensation.
And when she reached the door.
“Now then, my beloved son.”
Rosena’s low laughter drifted from within.
Elise’s feet froze.
“Just a little more, Jeremy.”
Her tone was honeyed.
It was the gentle voice of a loving mother soothing her child.
Yet something was twisted about it.
“Now, be good, won’t you? Drink this, and then we’ll be just a little bit sicker, yes?”
Elise’s eyes wavered.
Peering through the crack in the door, she saw.
Rosena humming softly as she poured medicine onto a spoon.
“Your father will worry about you more. Then he’ll see me, won’t he? Won’t he?”
With an untroubled expression, Rosena parted the child’s lips and let the medicine drip inside.
Her eyes gleamed with madness—no longer those of a sane woman.
Elise could bear it no longer and shoved the door open.
“You vile creature! What in the world are you doing?!”
A sharp cry tore through the room.
“D-Dowager Duchess…?”
Rosena froze, spoon still clutched in her hand.
Elise strode in with fury etched across her face.
And she struck Rosena’s head viciously.
“Ahhh!”
Rosena crumpled onto the carpet.
Elise turned sharply toward the bed.
Jeremy lay limp, breathing with great difficulty.
His eyelids were half-closed.
His small chest rose and fell precariously.
Seeing him too weak even to cry, Elise’s face hardened.
“How dare you reduce the child who will inherit House of Hays to this state?”
Elise’s eyes blazed with fury.
She immediately snatched the medicine from Rosena’s hands.
“You’ve been feeding him this without permission?”
“Give it back! It’s mine!”
Rosena sprang up and seized Elise’s wrist.
Her nails dug into flesh as she gripped tightly.
“Jeremy is my child! Stay out of this, old woman!”
“You absolute madwoman!”
Elise raised the medicine bottle high.
She was about to smash it when—
“No!”
Rosena lunged savagely and grabbed Elise’s other wrist.
“Who do you think you are! That’s mine! If Jeremy suffers a little more, then Evan will—!”
“You’ve completely lost your mind! You’re insane!”
Elise hurled the medicine bottle to the floor.
But the thick carpet muffled the impact with only a dull thud.
The bottle did not shatter.
“It’s mine! Mine!”
“Ugh!”
Rosena shoved Elise aside.
She crawled frantically across the carpet and seized the bottle again.
Then she glared down at Elise sprawled on the floor.
“You mad old fool! How dare you interfere with my plans!”
“You’re the one destroying Jeremy right now! I’ll have you thrown in prison—just like your murderer father!”
“Don’t be ridiculous! You’re a murderer yourself!”
Rosena seized Elise by the hair.
Ignoring her anguished screams, she shook her violently.
“You killed people long before my father! Who do you think you are to lecture me?”
“I—this—!”
“Fine! Let’s see who dies first!”
Rosena’s eyes had lost all reason.
Her grip tightened with brutal force.
Elise’s head wrenched backward.
“Ugh! Someone! Anyone!”
Elise managed to reach out and slap Rosena across the face.
Crack!
The sharp sound echoed through the room.
In that instant, Rosena’s grip loosened.
Seizing the opportunity, Elise twisted free and escaped.
She gasped for breath as she pushed herself up from the floor.
“Margaret! Margaret!”
Elise stumbled toward the door.
The maddened Rosena was impossible to handle alone.
But.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Rosena had no intention of letting Elise escape so easily.
She lunged from behind.
“Let go!”
“Never!”
Crash!
The two tangled bodies slammed hard against the doorframe.
Elise’s face contorted in pain.
‘I have to call for help—quickly!’
Next to Jeremy’s Bedroom was a Staircase leading down to the first floor.
Servants would be patrolling there.
If I went down and shouted, anyone would come running.
Elise forced her trembling legs to move.
“Someone! This way—!”
She cried out desperately.
The moment her hand reached for the stair railing.
Thud!
A heavy impact struck her back.
Before she could comprehend what happened.
Elise’s vision tilted.
“…What?”
Her body was already suspended in midair.
It felt as though time itself had stretched into something grotesque.
Startled, she thrashed her arms, but there was nothing to grasp.
In an instant, her vision lurched upward with a violent snap.
Thud!
A sharp impact struck her back.
Her body bounced upward again.
Crash!
This time, the edge of the staircase collided with her waist and shoulder.
Yet no scream escaped her lips.
Elise’s body tumbled lifelessly down the Staircase.
Thump.
Her form crumpled to the floor in a heap of lifelessness.
Her limbs lay twisted at unnatural angles, bent and broken.
She resembled a marionette whose strings had been severed.
“Gasp… gasp…”
Rosena clung to the railing, her breathing ragged and labored.
Looking down, Elise lay motionless.
For a moment, it felt as though time itself had stopped.
“Ahhhhh! Dowager Duchess!”
Margaret’s piercing scream reverberated throughout the Manor.

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