Hawk's voice was soft.
But...
His words were like a clap of thunder on a clear day!
The smile on Gwen's face vanished instantly. She stared at Hawk with wide eyes.
"What?"
Caroline, who had been looking away nearby, immediately turned her gaze to Hawk, her expression shocked, her eyes filled with terror.
"How could you..."
"Didn't your cousin tell you?"
Hawk looked at Caroline, who had finally shifted her gaze to him, his eyes deep: "No one can hide things from me that I want to know, not even you."
Gwen's gaze shot to Caroline.
"You didn't tell me about this."
"I..."
Caroline opened her mouth, looked at Gwen, then a bitter smile appeared on her face: "Cousin, this isn't such a..."
Before she could finish, the tenderness in Gwen's eyes was completely gone. She stared straight at Hawk, her expression serious, her voice equally grave.
"Who is he?"
"Damon Salvatore!"
"He's still alive?"
"Yes."
Hawk shrugged, looked at Gwen, and smiled slightly.
"I wanted to kill him, but you told me to stop."
"If I had known about this, I wouldn't have told you to stop."
"I can bring him here if you want."
"I want him!"
Gwen replied without any hesitation, looking at Hawk.
Hawk's smile was bright. With a thought, his Sixth Sense, which enveloped the entire town, instantly located Damon, who had just been dug out of the rubble by Stefan in that valley. Then, 'Sixth Sense - Teleportation' activated: "As you wish, Mrs. Phoenix."
As his words fell, with a thud!
Damon Salvatore fell onto the lawn in front of them in a ripple of space.
Caroline, standing nearby, watched this scene and looked at Gwen.
"Cousin..."
"Shut up!"
Gwen snapped, then looked at Caroline: "Does Aunt know about this?"
Caroline opened her mouth.
"I..."
"He didn't just control Caroline; he even used his Vampire charm to infiltrate the town's administrative committee," Hawk added calmly, delivering a critical blow from the side.
He couldn't be blamed for this.
He had warned Caroline beforehand not to stir up trouble.
But...
She didn't listen.
Since that was the case, if Caroline started it, it was only natural for him to finish it.
Most importantly, he never stirred up trouble; he only stated facts.
Damon had once hypnotized Gwen's cousin, Caroline, making her his sex slave for a period, which was an undeniable fact.
Gwen took a deep breath upon hearing this, glanced at Damon Salvatore, who was restrained by Hawk, unable to move his limbs or speak, then said to Caroline in a low voice: "He hypnotized and raped you, you didn't tell Aunt, and you even became friends with a rapist. Jesus, Caroline, you're also the Sheriff's daughter!"
Jesus!
God!
Holy Mary!
Gwen felt she was already rebellious enough; after all, even in New York, no one would be so certain that the person they were having their first relationship with was their future.
But she was certain Hawk was her future. For this, she gave up the university she had always longed for, accepted Hawk's proposal, and moved in with him.
Many people said it was a huge gamble, and many thought she was rebellious enough.
But now...
Good heavens, Gwen felt like she was nothing compared to her cousin, Caroline.
What kind of good person would choose to befriend a rapist after being hypnotized and raped?
Most importantly, Caroline was also the Sheriff's daughter.
"The silence of the victim is not self-protection, but a reward for the abuser."
"Don't you know that?"
Gwen looked at Caroline, somewhat speechless, recalling something Hawk had once said.
"Or did a donkey kick you in the head?"
"No, Cousin."
Caroline looked at Gwen and quickly explained: "Damon and I are not friends. God, I would never be friends with that scum."
Gwen was expressionless.
"But you went to find Hawk with this rapist, didn't you?"
"I didn't go with Damon, I went with..."
Just as Caroline was flusteredly explaining, three urgent whooshing sounds came from outside the mansion.
The next second, Stefan, holding Elena, and the Black Witch Bonnie also appeared on the lawn in the mansion's backyard.
Good heavens.
If they lit a bonfire on the lawn, one might think there was a bonfire party happening.
After putting down his girlfriend, Elena, Stefan looked at Damon, who was giving him frantic eye signals, and quickly tried to step forward: "Damon!"
Hawk's mind moved, and his Sixth Sense transformed into invisible threads, instantly binding Stefan in place as well.
Stefan, who had just started to walk towards Damon, instantly froze in place.
He was like Damon.
Unable to move his limbs.
Unable to speak.
Seeing this, Elena was about to step forward, but she was pulled back in time by her best friend, the Black Witch Bonnie.
The Black Witch Bonnie stood there, her face filled with terror, her gaze not on Hawk, but trembling as she said: "Don't go there, absolutely don't go there."
Hawk noticed them but didn't bother to look at them.
Gwen, however, turned her head, glanced at her cousin Caroline: "Do they know about this?"
Caroline shook her head.
Being hypnotized and used as a sex slave was not something glorious; after all, to outsiders, it seemed like she had actively pursued Damon at the time.
"But they are friends with this rapist?"
"What, no, no, no, no one wants to be friends with Damon. Elena and Bonnie don't want to be friends with Damon either."
"Is that so?"
Gwen's tightly furrowed brows relaxed.
Just then, Hawk walked to his fiancée's side, leaned in, and whispered gossip about the complicated relationship between Elena and the Salvatore brothers into Gwen's ear.
Gwen listened to Hawk's gossip with a calm expression, then looked up at her cousin again, and said to Hawk: "She really doesn't know what happened to my cousin?"
Hawk never lied: "His brother, Stefan, probably figured it out. As for Elena, she really doesn't know about this."
At least at this point in time, she didn't know.
After all, he could understand Caroline's thoughts; being hypnotized and used as a sex slave was already a tragic thing, so how could she go around telling everyone about it?
But understanding was one thing.
Hawk still stood with Gwen.
As everyone knew, he always favored his own over what was right.
Gwen turned her head, glanced at Stefan, who was also frozen in place, then looked at Elena, who was anxiously pacing around Stefan, and frowned: "He knew about this, but he didn't stop it?"
Hawk shrugged: "He wanted to, but Damon Salvatore is a carnivorous Vampire. Stefan is his younger brother, and a vegetarian Vampire at that. Even if he knew, he couldn't stop him. And after your cousin became a Vampire, Damon even tried to kill her. It was Stefan and Elena who stopped Damon."
As for why Damon suggested killing Caroline when he found out she became a Vampire, the reason was simple.
To prevent the incident of him getting Caroline's body through hypnosis from being exposed.
After all, his brother Stefan relied on personal charm, while he could only rely on despicable methods like hypnosis.
Gwen's expression dawned on her.
She had seen it in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files.
Among humans, there are good people and bad people, and Vampires are no exception. Some Vampires follow their instincts and feed on human blood, while others fight against their instincts, restraining their desires, and being Vampires who don't drink blood.
Gwen's understanding at the time was that the former had more beastiality than humanity, and the latter suppressed beastiality with humanity.
Now—
It was true.
Gwen listened to Hawk's words and looked at Caroline: "Is what Hawk said true?"
Caroline's heart was completely in turmoil at this point. To be precise, after the matter she had wanted to completely conceal and forget was so unexpectedly brought up, she felt a sense of giving up. Hearing Gwen's words, she nodded.
Seeing this, Gwen said to Hawk: "Let him go."
Hawk grunted.
Thud!
Freed from his restraints, Stefan fell to the ground, gasping for air.
Elena, seeing this, quickly helped Stefan up, then looked at Damon, who was still bound, and then at Caroline, who was being quietly scolded by her cousin nearby, not even daring to raise her head.
"What happened?"
Stefan didn't speak.
However...
He looked at his brother Damon, who was still screaming for help in terror, and then at Caroline nearby, and already had a guess in his heart.
Sure enough.
Bonnie, the dark Witch who had been standing behind, trying to blend into the surrounding darkness, looked at the bound Damon with disgust and said to Elena, "Caroline didn't willingly like Damon; Damon hypnotized Caroline to make her fall for him."
Elena's eyes widened when she heard this, looking at Bonnie who spoke, and then also at the bound Damon.
At the same time.
Gwen looked at Caroline, who had her head bowed in front of her, and no longer felt like speaking.
"Hawk, kill this...
"No!"
Caroline's eyes constricted. Hearing this, she looked up at Gwen.
Gwen chuckled.
"What, you've fallen for this rapist?"
"No, Klaus is coming, and while Damon is a scumbag, his combat power is the highest among us. We need him."
"Not anymore."
"What?"
Caroline looked at her cousin Gwen, who interrupted her with a blank expression.
Gwen looked at her fiancé beside her: "What is the cruelest way for a Vampire to die?"
Hawk smiled slightly: "Exposure to the Sun."
Once a Vampire is exposed to the Sun without any protection, for the Vampire, the omnipresent ultraviolet rays are like a human covered in wounds being thrown into a bottomless salt pool.
That omnipresent pain, that all-encompassing soreness, would make the Vampire turn to ash in the most despairing, most screaming way.
Gwen took out her phone and checked the time: "There's still an hour until sunrise. Perfect, I'm going to let him burn to death in the Sun!"
She was very angry.
And she should be this angry.
Gwen and Caroline are similar in age, and whenever she came here before, she would always sleep in the same bed as Caroline. Plus, at home in New York, she only had brothers, no sisters, so even though Caroline is her cousin, Gwen considers her like her own sister.
Now that her sister had been humiliated, how could she not be angry?
Not to mention, this kind of humiliation, for a woman, is the ultimate insult.
So...
Hawk responded with a smile: "As you wish."
Damon, whose body was bound, lowered his gaze, looking at the Daywalker Ring slowly sliding off his finger, and seemed to realize something. His expression became incredibly terrified, and his body tried to violently shake and break free from the restraints.
But, it was in vain.
Again, if a small Vampire could break free from Hawk's current telekinetic restraint, it would only mean that someone in the unseen had weakened Hawk's current combat power.
Hawk opened his left hand, and after the Daywalker Ring landed on it, he handed it to Gwen: "In an hour, as the Sunlight appears, he will turn to ash. If you still don't feel it's enough, next time I go to Mephisto, I'll throw his soul into the Underworld too. When you can go to the Underworld in the future, you can enjoy the torture arranged for him."
Gwen took the ring, listening to Hawk's words.
"Can you?"
"Yes, it's a simple matter."
Hawk smiled slightly.
If Mephisto was telling the truth, then by taking advantage of this opportunity of Heaven's attack, he believed Mephisto would agree to his request.
After all—
As long as he wasn't in a hurry, then only Mephisto would be.
Want him to help for free?
How could that be?
How could that be allowed?
Hawk thought to himself.
Just then.
A voice came from behind.
"Mr. Phoenix..."
"Stefan."
Caroline looked at Stefan, who approached with a hesitant expression, feeling a mix of emotions.
She had been very flustered, even a little resentful of Hawk for telling her cousin this hidden secret, after Hawk had exposed it.
But seeing her cousin's angry expression later, she knew very well that her cousin was worried about her, which was why she was so angry.
So...
Just now, when Caroline heard her cousin say, "Not anymore," and then thought about exposing Damon to the Sun to burn him alive, her heart trembled, and at the same time, she felt a strange sense of satisfaction.
Damon deserved it.
If Damon hadn't hypnotized her, she might not even have had much contact with Elena and them, and even if she did, she wouldn't be so deeply involved now.
After all, she was the school's cheerleading Captain.
Young and beautiful.
From a prominent family.
Unlike her aunt, who was sweet-talked by George Stacy and tricked into going to New York, and unlike her mother, who fell in love and became pregnant with her father at a young age.
Undoubtedly, Caroline's future was destined to be brilliant.
But all of this was ruined by Damon.
As a Vampire, there was one thing she could never do.
Get pregnant!
So...
She hated Damon, and therefore, after Gwen decided Damon's fate for her, she even felt a little grateful to her cousin.
After all, she herself didn't have the ability to take revenge.
But now, looking at Stefan, who was approaching and even looking at her with pleading and apologetic eyes, her heart couldn't help but soften.
Gwen looked at Stefan and Elena approaching, and also saw Stefan's gaze, reading the meaning in Stefan's unspoken words. Without waiting for Stefan to speak, she said with a frosty expression, "If your sister was hypnotized and violated, would you let him go?"
Stefan's pleading words, which were already on the tip of his tongue, instantly became unspeakable. Facing Gwen's cold gaze, he opened his mouth.
"I'm sorry, I..."
"You certainly should be sorry. If you hadn't returned to the town, this rapist wouldn't have come back, and my sister wouldn't have suffered such humiliation."
"But you should be glad that you didn't become an accomplice to this rapist."
"You should also be glad that I am a reasonable person."
"If it were someone else, not only would the rapist die, but everyone connected to him would."
Gwen's face was frosty, trying to control her emotions, and she said to Stefan in a deep voice.
Hawk glanced at his fiancée.
He always felt that Gwen's last sentence seemed to be directed at him.
But it didn't seem like it.
Because if it were him, if his own sister was humiliated like that.
Heh heh?
Everyone connected to him would die?
No, no.
The entire Waterfall Town would follow in Wakanda's footsteps, completely wiped off the map, and at the same time, all the souls of the town would be cast into his Eight Great Underworlds.
Stefan listened to Gwen's words and opened his mouth.
"I'm sorry."
"You can say goodbye to him."
Gwen was silent for a moment, then looked at Hawk: "Unbind this guy's mouth."
Hawk didn't speak, just moved his mind.
The next second.
Damon's completely panicked voice came.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong, spare me this once, I'm really wrong, I'm sorry."
"You don't know you're wrong, you know you're going to die."
Gwen glanced at Damon, who was begging for mercy, with a blank expression, said coldly, then withdrew her gaze and pulled her cousin Caroline into the mansion.
Hawk also followed behind.
Gwen suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Hawk: "We won't wake Grandpa, will we?"
Hawk chuckled: "You're just thinking of that now?"
The next second.
He didn't wait for his fiancée to reply, and smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm here."
"I know."
Gwen's tone was gentle, and she looked at Hawk with tender eyes, smiling slightly: "Thank you, Hawk."
She knew that if she had come alone, even if she knew about the humiliation her cousin suffered, there was little she could do.
But...
She was not alone.
Hawk also smiled slightly, hearing the gratitude in Gwen's words.
"You have everything of mine, future Mrs. Phoenix."
"I know."
Gwen's smile was radiant.
It was because Hawk was there that she could be so willful.
She always knew!
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