The villa stood before them, an unassuming façade tucked away in an affluent neighborhood where each residence was worth a small fortune.

Despite its prime location, the house bore an air of neglect, as if it were rarely inhabited.

Debra raised an eyebrow. "I wouldn't have pegged this as your style."

Andrew coughed a little, his face pale. He pulled out a key and unlocked the door.

"This isn't my house."

"If it's not yours, why do you have the key?"

"A friend entrusted it to me."

There were very few people in Seamar City whom Andrew considered friends. Debra immediately thought of Marion.

with a taste that hinted at a bygone era. It

clean periodically. It hasn't changed

where Marion used to

he had hinted at

caught her eye. A pregnant woman with a gentle

en

"This place..."

was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Houston," Andrew explained, a touch of nostalgia in his

was little back then, so he didn't remember much. But

the fake couples in business circles. The affection in Dwayne Houston's

Houston family's roots

to the previous generation of Caleb. Later, as the country stabilized, they gradually withdrew from the power center and moved to

overseas

as a

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