Became A Queen After divorce

Layne skillfully held the venomous snake while his other hand was searching for a small knife.

Iker exchanged a glance and soon someone handed him a knife. Layne took the knife without hesitation and swiftly slashed towards the belly of the snake.

The red snake coiled tightly around his arm, using all its strength, causing wrinkles to appear on his skin.

However, Layne’s action was swift and precise. He skillfully opened the snake’s belly. Its blood splattered onto his hand and splashed onto the ground as if there were flowers blooming.

The old man inserted two fingers into the snake’s belly and dug around. He extracted an oval-shaped deep red snake gall about the size of a thumb.

Blood smudged his hand, creating a gruesome and repulsive sight.

The true value of this snake lay in its venomous fangs and this snake gall. The rest of its body was relatively unimportant.

With the snake gall removed, the lifeless snake’s body continued to tremble faintly. Its triangular head hung limply in the air, far from its former imposing demeanor.

Davon’s large hand clenched into a fist under his suit’s long sleeve as he looked at his beloved with pain and regret in his heart.

Layne uncoiled the snake and tossed it back into the glass box, laughing as he turned to Kai. “Snake gall is a good thing,” he said.

The dead snake lay in the box, its blood mixing with its body color so that you couldn’t tell them apart without getting closer.

Master Lewis was just over a year old and still a child. At first sight of this terrifying thing, he cried out and burst into tears.

He reached out to grab his father’s leg while crying and hiding for comfort.

“Daddy, Daddy… there’s a snake! It’s so scary! Boohoo…”

Kai loved this little one most dearly and immediately picked him up to console him in his arms. “It’s okay now; don’t cry anymore. You’re Master Lewis of the Todd family; how can you be so timid?”

Thalia stood by watching the harmony between father and son, feeling unbalanced inside her heart.

Back when she gave birth to Davon, Kai was on mission abroad for more than two years. By the time he returned home, their child had grown up; besides, at that time, he already had a son Iker, so there wasn’t much joy from Kai shown towards Davon’s birth.

Now he already had both sons and daughters, but was still so protecting this little brat. Thalia knew it was because Erica gave birth to him.

“Tanner, take this thing outside and bury it somewhere.”

“Yes.”

Tanner heard Master Iker’s order, then quickly came over holding onto the glass box with both hands.

He carried the box through the garden, preparing to bury it in the back mountain.

Along the way, he saw the female servants who were scared by the dead snake and retreated several steps one by one, avoiding him.

Unexpectedly, he met Erica in the backyard.

She was wearing a moon-white dress with apricot-colored high heels on her feet and holding a fan while playing with her daughter in the garden. When she saw Tanner, her smile became even sweeter and she walked over gracefully on seven-centimeter high heels.

When her gaze fell on the glass box in his hand, there was a quick flash of darkness in her eyes. Tanner slightly raised his head to look at her and respectfully lowered it again. “Madam Erica.”

Her smile froze for a second before she spoke softly with some sorrowful tone ringing in his ears. “Tanner, you should still call me Erica like before.”

“I dare not,” Tanner replied humbly.

Erica’s beautiful eyes flickered for a moment as if thinking of something that made sadness clouded over her face. “Back then when I still lived in Iker’s Estate, you were the first person who has truly cared for me.”

Talking about old times made Tanner silent.

If it weren’t for that incident, perhaps he would have always treated her like a younger sister. But she shouldn’t have she shouldn’t have used Master Iker to get into Master Kai’s bed, and even caused Master Iker to break both his legs trying to save her. Tanner’s affection for her vanished overnight.

“If Madam Erica has no further instructions, I will leave to handle things,” Tanner said calmly, turning around with the glass box in hand.

“Wait a moment.”

Erica stopped him and took a step forward, her gaze falling on the object in his hand. She curiously asked, “Isn’t this the pet that Master Davon raised?”

“Yes.”

She wasn’t afraid of the snake at all. She carefully examined it and noticed the snake’s opened belly, her eyes widening in fascination.

“How could it have died?”

“It was Master Davon who killed this snake as an apology to old Mr. Edwards.”

Was it Davon who killed it? This is impossible. He loves this thing the most and even went to Southeast Asia personally to buy these two snakes.

He brought these two snakes back while they were still eggs and personally incubated them. Moreover, he trained them and made them become in undefeated “warriors” in battles of snakes. He even bought various other snake species to serve as their lunch.

Now, to make amends to the Edwards family, he actually killed them!

She underestimated the seemingly unprofessional grandfather and granddaughter, and did not expect Kai to trust them so much.

“Okay, I understand. You can go now.”