The Villainess Winning Back Her Beast Husbands-Chapter 107: Go Find Her Together

Thorne’s gaze froze.

Through the downpour, the figures of Elias Moretti and Lachlan gradually became clear.

His dark green vertical pupils contracted, glinting coldly. His gaze was like a dagger, fixed on Lachlan—the graceful and powerful Snow Leopard. It was clear his shattered Star Pattern had reformed.

"Where’s Eva?" The two simple words, laced with suppressed fury, rang out chillingly in the downpour.

Lachlan looked at the unharmed Thorne, and a barely perceptible glimmer appeared in his grayish-brown Beast Eyes.

The tension in his back eased. If Thorne was alright, then that meant she was safe, too.

Elias Moretti’s crimson scales gleamed darkly as his long, serpentine body twisted and shifted into human form.

His narrow eyes swept past Thorne, only to see Caden Albright holding a cub.

His brow furrowed deeply. "Evangeline didn’t come back?"

"What are you talking about? Eva went to the Frost-plain Tribe!" Thorne’s voice seethed with rage, and a flicker of panic crossed his eyes as he stared intently at Lachlan. "Why are you here when Eva isn’t?!"

The rain came down in sheets.

Lachlan shifted into human form. His figure swayed in the rain, his drenched, flaxen hair clinging to his neck. He looked utterly wretched.

"She..." His pale lips trembled, his voice almost drowned out by the rain. "She did it to save me..."

"She was swept away by a mudslide in the snowy plains." His voice was hoarse and nearly broken.

Thorne froze. The very air around him seemed to turn deathly still, instantly stagnating.

"What did you say?" His voice was quiet, yet sharp as a razor and brimming with fury.

His dark green eyes locked onto Lachlan, narrowing into chilling slits that shot a terrifying light through the curtain of rain.

The next instant, he exploded into motion, his fist cutting through the air as it smashed viciously into the corner of Lachlan’s mouth.

"She knew you were dying!"

"She even abandoned her newborn cub!"

A second punch followed, landing with a sickening thud.

Thorne’s expression was savage, his voice raw. "Lachlan, how dare you show your face to me, alive?"

Lachlan collapsed into a muddy puddle. Rainwater, mingled with blood, dripped from his stoic jaw, blooming into dark red ripples in the murky water.

He neither struggled nor fought back. His grayish-brown eyes lost focus as he muttered, "It was my fault..."

Caden Albright held an oil-paper umbrella in one hand and Bunny in the other. He looked down at Lachlan, who was slumped in the mud, the very picture of dejection and despair. Caden’s stunningly beautiful face was cold and detached. "With Eva’s power, she wouldn’t have been swept away by a mudslide."

Caden Albright paused. His knuckles whitened around the umbrella’s handle, and the frame seemed to groan under the strain. He stared fixedly at Lachlan, a chill in his fox-like eyes. "Why?"

Before he could finish, Thorne suddenly froze, as if he’d noticed something.

He violently hauled Lachlan up, the sound of tearing beast skin piercing the rain-swept air.

Thorne’s gaze locked onto his neck. His fingertips began to tremble uncontrollably, and his voice took on a frantic tremor. "Your Contract Mark... How?"

At his words, both Caden Albright and Elias Moretti’s eyes snapped to Lachlan’s neck.

Where his Contract Mark should have been, there was now a grisly pattern, as if someone had taken a bone knife and carved the image of a coiled Red Fox into his skin, each stroke digging deep into the flesh.

The lazy Red Fox, its fur dyed red with fresh blood.

"Where is your Contract Mark?!" Thorne gritted out, his teeth making a faint, chilling sound as they ground together.

A flash of silver lightning tore across the sky, illuminating Lachlan’s deathly pale face.

Caden Albright’s slender form staggered, the oil-paper umbrella dipping in the rain and splashing a spray of cold water.

His amber eyes contracted violently. The cub in his arms, perhaps sensing its father’s heart-rending anguish, began to whimper.

The Contract was broken, yet Lachlan was completely unharmed.

Clearly, it was the other party who had suffered the backlash.

No wonder a mere mudslide had been enough to sweep her away.

Elias Moretti stood frozen in the downpour, staring at Lachlan, a tempest raging in his crimson eyes.

On the Beastman Continent, breaking a Contract was a death sentence. A female willingly taking the backlash upon herself? It was unheard of.

He stared intently at the Red Fox Contract Mark that had been carved, stroke by stroke, onto Lachlan’s neck with a bone knife. His throat worked. ’Evangeline... was willing to suffer the backlash from the Beast God Contract... all for one male?’

"What did you *do*?" Thorne’s nails dug into his palms, drawing blood that seeped between his fingers.

"I’ll kill you—"

In the next instant, Thorne’s form twisted and swelled. Jet-black scales surged over him like a tide, transforming him in a flash into a giant serpent. With a surge of power, his body grew even more massive, every plate of his Scale Armor glinting coldly in the downpour.

With relentless finality, his vicious fangs shot toward Lachlan’s neck.

Lachlan slowly closed his eyes, rain dripping from his lashes.

He didn’t struggle. Instead, he tilted his head back, exposing his neck to the fangs.

’I should have died long ago.’

But the fangs never reached his throat.

Thorne whipped his head around, his dark-green eyes boiling with murderous rage. Caden Albright’s oil-paper umbrella was blocking his path to Lachlan. Rainwater slid from its edge, creating spreading ripples on the ground.

"You’re stopping me?" The scales on Thorne’s body ground against each other, the sound like scraping metal.

"Eva broke the Contract willingly! It has to be his fault, so why won’t you let me kill him?!"

Lachlan’s lashes trembled as he slowly opened his eyes to see Caden Albright shielding him.

The cub in Caden’s arms was wailing, its shrill cries piercing the downpour as if it knew its mother was in trouble.

Lachlan’s grayish-brown pupils constricted, a profound anguish swirling in their depths.

He reached out, as if to touch her cub, but his hand fell away, devoid of strength.

The movement pulled at the carved Red Fox Contract Mark on his neck, causing the raw wound to seep blood again.

Caden Albright’s beautiful face was ashen, and even his rosy lips had lost their color.

His voice was perfectly calm, but his knuckles were white where he gripped the umbrella. "Eva chose to die to save him. If you kill him... when Eva comes back... how much would that hurt her?"

"Besides..." Caden glanced back, rain dripping from his chin.

His amber eyes were ice-cold as they raked over the storage bag at Lachlan’s waist. The embroidered Snow Leopard pattern on it was so familiar. "Right now, we need people to find her."

Thorne’s gaze also fell on the storage bag. His forked, scarlet tongue flickered, tasting the residual scent on it.

His powerful serpent tail lashed out, shattering a nearby boulder. Shards of stone, carrying his fury, grazed Lachlan’s cheek and opened bloody cuts, but Lachlan seemed not to feel a thing.

Elias Moretti looked at the three of them and took a deep breath. "I’ll help you look."

’Lachlan left food back at the tribe, so they’ll be alright.’

Thorne turned to Caden Albright, his dark green eyes gleaming coldly. "You all follow the path of the mudslide to find Eva. I’m going to the Sky-Rend Tribe to get Orion."

"He’s a Wyvern Beastman. He’s incredibly fast in the air; he can find her much sooner."

As he spoke, Thorne had already turned, his jet-black form vanishing into the distance like a streak of light.

Caden Albright looked away from Thorne’s departing figure, his gaze landing heavily on Lachlan. His voice was low and frigid. "Pull yourself together. Once we find her, you can forge a new Contract. Assuming, of course, that she’s willing to forgive you."

Lachlan slowly lifted his head, a flicker of light returning to his grayish-brown eyes.

His throat worked. His voice, usually ethereal, was fractured. "Is it really... possible?"

Caden Albright looked at him, his eyes cool and clear. "After all this, you should understand her value better than anyone. Eva is worth risking everything to get back."