Chapter 553 - She's Alive

Moses froze for a moment, but his expression soon changed drastically as he barked, "What do you mean by that?"

Lucas frowned and said coldly, "Since you can't do it, don't make empty promises! You want me to let him off? Impossible!

"If you continue to pester me, I'll immediately kill him!"

"You!" Moses was so enraged that he was about to explode. But he knew that he was in a passive position, and Lucas was in control of everything now. If he angered Lucas, his son would definitely die!

He had no choice but to suppress his anger, keep quiet, and stand at the side.

Without the interference of others, Lucas squatted down beside Marc and pressed down hard on his philtrum.

"Mmph!" Marc grunted softly and came to his senses. But the instant he woke up, he was overwhelmed by the immense pain in his legs again, making him scream in misery.

"Shut up!" Lucas roared coldly to stop him before asking again, "I'll ask you one last time, and you'd better answer me honestly. Where is Karen Turner's corpse? I've run out of patience."

He had already given Marc three chances to tell the truth. If he chose to continue hiding it, there wouldn't be a need for Lucas to continue to keep him alive.

He thought that he would eventually get an answer from the Kingstons regarding the whereabouts of Karen's corpse.

Marc's body was already drenched in cold sweat, and he looked as though he had been fished out of the water.

His eyes were already somewhat glassed over and out of focus, but he subconsciously wanted to continue lying to use it as a straw to clutch at. "She… she is really…"

"Marc Kingston! You'd better tell the truth immediately!" Explosive yelling suddenly sounded in Marc's ears.

Lucas wasn't the one who shouted. Rather, it was Moses.

"You're already on the brink of death. What else do you care about? Tell me everything you know immediately!" Moses hollered.

Just now, he sensed Lucas's intention to kill. If Marc's answer was still unsatisfiable, he would definitely not spare him!

At this moment, he was so furious that he wanted to beat his intelligent son into a pulp. They all said that a father knew his son best. As Marc's father, he obviously knew that he was hiding something.

Regardless of the reason, he would be a complete fool to be so stubborn despite being on the brink of death!

Stunned by the scolding of his father, who had always been meek and mellow, he finally came back to his senses.

Yes, if Lucas ran out of patience and wanted to kill him right now, none of his trump cards would be of use!

He gritted his teeth and looked at Lucas before suddenly asking, "Can you let me off if I tell you the truth?"

Lucas sneered in response. "I'm not negotiating with you. You'd better remember this clearly."

Marc raised his hand with difficulty to wipe off the cold sweat about to flow into his eyes and said with menace, "If you don't promise me, I won't tell you the answer even if I die!"

A trace of mania appeared in his eyes. Although he was about to die, he still wanted to take a gamble and bank on Lucas being desperate to know about Karen's information.

However, he was soon filled with disappointment, or rather, despair!

Reason being, Lucas's expression didn't even change in the slightest, and he merely sneered. "In that case, go to hell!"

Amid Marc's horrified gaze, Lucas's foot was like a giant mountain enlarging in his view as it stomped down toward his head.

The fear of death instantly occupied Marc's mind.

Unable to tolerate it any longer, he yelled hysterically, "I'll tell you! I'll tell you! Karen Turner isn't dead!"

"..."

A fierce and powerful gust of wind blew past Marc's face.

He closed his eyes tightly and gasped for air when he finally felt that he could still breathe and knew that he had escaped death.

But his body was now limp and weak. He didn't want to experience the horror of escaping a near-death situation again.

Lucas's foot was less than a centimeter away from his face.

After hearing what Marc said, he amazingly stopped right at that instant.

Had Marc been half a second later with his confession, he would have already died by now.

"What did you just say? Repeat yourself." Lucas's icy cold tone contained some bewilderment.

Although he had sensed long ago that Marc was lying, he hadn't expected to hear that Karen was still alive!

If Karen didn't die, things would be much better because he would at least be able to answer to Cheyenne and Charlotte!

Otherwise, not only would Lucas be perpetually uneasy, but the kindhearted Cheyenne would live in self-reproach and be riddled with guilt for the rest of her life, for she would forever regret her decision to drive Karen away from the hospital last night.

Marc stabilized his mental state before saying while trembling, "I'm telling the truth this time. I intended to kill her at first, but I didn't do it in the end, so she's still alive now."

"Where is she now?" Lucas immediately probed.

"She's… at the Taylors'!" Marc immediately came clean after being utterly frightened out of his wits by his close shave with death.

"The Taylors?" This was beyond Lucas's expectations.

He had first gone to confront Scott Taylor, who had told him that Karen had been abducted by Marc.

"If you dare to lie to me again, I'll immediately kill you! Tell me exactly what's going on," Lucas commanded in an aggressive tone.

Seeing that he was enraged, Marc immediately said, "I won't lie again! She's really at the Taylors'. I said that I killed her and fed her corpse to the dogs only because I wanted to anger you and goad you into coming here to die… Anyway, I really didn't take her away!

"Think about it. If I really wanted to kill her, I could have just gotten Scott Taylor to get rid of her on the spot. Why would I have brought her all the way back to San Francisco?"

Lucas raised his eyebrows, finding that Marc's words did make some sense.

If he really wanted to kill Karen, he truly only needed to tell the Taylors to do it instead of going to the trouble of taking her back to San Francisco.

Marc also said that his purpose was to use Karen's death to force Lucas into coming to the Kingston manor and then lock him inside before sending his so-called experts to kill him.

If not for the fact that Lucas was too powerful, he might have really been tricked by Marc.

After hearing what Marc said, Edmund snorted coldly. "Hah, that's called being a smart aleck. You thought you could take down Lucas with this stupid plan you devised, but I bet you didn't think you would end up in this situation today, huh!?"

Damon, Connor, Joe, and others all sneered at Marc in contempt. "When you harm others, you'll eventually end up harming yourself! The old saying is indeed true!"

"Since she's still at the Taylors', we should immediately head there and tell them to hand her over!" Joe suggested.

Connor agreed. "Yes, since Mr. Gray's mother-in-law is still alive and at the Taylors', we should immediately go back to Orange County and get them to hand her over!"

Damon hurriedly exclaimed, "I'll go with you! Although I'm not from Orange County, with the Parkers' current status, I'm sure I can deter the Taylors!"

But just as everyone was discussing going to the Taylors to make them hand Karen over, Edmund suddenly frowned and said solemnly, "We can't be too reckless about this!"