Arlene’s smile stretched from ear to ear as she chuckled.

“Honey, you’re smitten, aren’t you? No worries. I’ll talk to your dad and we’ll figure this out. I’ll be there in Greenfield to support you, but I need to wrap up a few things here first.”

Judith’s eyes sparkled with glee. She always knew she was her mom’s favorite.

It was still afternoon where Arlene was. She was having a high tea with a group of socialites. They all wore exquisite makeup and dazzling outfits. Some even had fascinators perched onto their coiffed hair – a nod to traditional European fashion.

One of the ladies set down her cup of coffee and turned to Arlene.

“Mrs. Sanders, any luck in finding your sister?”

Arlene shook her head slowly, “No, not yet. It’s been so many years. I fear she might be gone.”

“What a pity! She was a genius in the pharmaceutical field. It’s baffling how she just vanished. And to think she was supposed to become a Sanders by marrying into the family, only to run away the night before the wedding.”

Otherwise, that golden opportunity would never have fallen into Arlene’s lap.

Arlene and her twin sister were like two sides of a coin. While her sister was a prodigy in the pharmaceutical research, making a name for herself at a young age, Arlene was more ordinary. She was like the designated bride groomed by the Abbott family to marry into the wealthy family.

The ladies brought up the missing sister with a mixed expression of envy and nostalgia.

long line of suitors for

together. But then she disappeared on the eve of their wedding. The guests were already on their way from

but their married life was rather peaceful, and they

had been on a decline, to the point where they were almost unknown. If it wasn’t for Arlene marrying into the Sanders family, nobody would remember that she was an

ladies always brought up her sister, so she excused herself rather

to the Sanders estate, she waited for

that Augus finally ended his day’s

him, taking his coat from

She wants to marry Ian.

charm about him. As

his prime, his looks were very

satisfaction and shyness whenever

placed the files on his lap, his fingers paused slightly at Arlene’s

to go

If she wants

eyes,

the word were out of his mouth,

her plans to marry into

to go there

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