The Scapegoat

Lila thought, 'What, what did this bastard just say? He said that he was instructed by me? No, no, no. I must have heard wrongly, or he had mistaken me for someone else in a moment of desperation.'

After receiving Victor's probing gaze, Lila instinctively retorted, "Daddy, it's not me. I didn't."

Victor frowned slightly. His gaze wandered back and forth between the two of them, coldly observing th