Chapter 64

Jasper frowned, deeply upset; but it didn't really bother him, so he kept on going.

Tyson staggered along behind him, terrified that one wrong step might cause him to slip and fall into the wet mud all around them. His clothes would be ruined! He didn't want to even imagine it...

Jasper used to be a soldier, and so had trained his sense of balance; Tyson was just an ordinary guy, and struggled to keep his footing here.

Soon, he had fallen way behind.

Jasper was alone by the time he reached the graveyard. Tyson was still struggling to make his way through the mud.

Having finished paying their respects, Lara and Helen had taken the four children to a dried-up pond to pick some reeds.

Those reeds had grown tall... tall enough to hide them all from sight.

Willow and Samantha were alone in the graveyard.

tidying things

didn't help. She was sitting on a cushion nearby, dozing

Willow. His dark eyes grew soft, and he said, "Willow, what are you

voice was deep and enchanting. It was an unexpected sound

to dispose of them. When she turned to look, what she saw was a neatly

Every detail of his fair face was exquisite. His deeply carved eyes were highlighted by long, long lashes. He had thin,

breath caught. She couldn't speak, absolutely

she shot to her feet, eyes wide with shock. "Jasper! Er... Mr Hughes, sir," she babbled frantically, "What brings you

In an office on the top floor of the Hughes Corporation headquarters, doing...

would he suddenly be out here, in the

visit somebody's grave,"

Seeing that it was really him, her heart leapt right up her throat. Scrambling to her feet, she hurried over to greet him and make a big show of good manners. "But why would you come here in person, to a wretched backwater place like this?" Bringing over the cushion she'd just been napping on, she laid it at his feet for him to use. Perhaps he could wipe his

had one face to show rich people, but wore another one when

the ground, clearly unimpressed. Avoiding it entirely, he instead walked over

arranged neatly in

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