My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 65

When Yvette was a little girl, she had drowned while playing in the village pond.

Why in the world would Jasper even know her at all?

He certainly wasn't related to Aunt Helen in any way. In the twenty years that Willow had lived with her, she'd never heard the Hughes name mentioned even once.

Jasper laid that bouquet of flowers back down upon the grave reverently, and didn't answer her question.

Meanwhile, Samantha's heart was racing wildly. She was absolutely terrified that Willow's inquiry would expose her own lies. "I told Mr Jasper about our Yvette," she answered for him. "He's a kind soul with a gentle heart, so he was moved to come here and pay a visit to her grave. So what?"

Willow frowned slightly, but didn't say anything out loud. So... it was Samantha who had told Jasper about Yvette...

Perhaps these two were close? Otherwise, why would Samantha tell an outsider about this chapter of their family history?

It would also explain why Jasper would come all this way to pay his respects to Samantha's cousin.

enter the Hughes Corporation headquarters

close were

with, five years ago... she'd been so alive with passion, yet also tender and warm... he still remembered it vividly, as though it had only happened just

him forever, her body buried beneath this mound of

time for

place! I'll prepare a lovely feast for you!" Samantha hovered near Jasper, a big smile

of home Yvette had grown

Jasper wanted to have dinner

you should come with me. We'll show you a good time." Willow's house was a ramshackle ruin. She'd missed out on the morning market, so they had nothing to eat besides some lettuce and carrots from their garden. That was nowhere near good enough for someone

like him probably enjoyed the finest foods from around the world every day... how could he settle for a basic garden

every day that the Nason Village had a guest like him... someone of

than the

a meal, along with her side of the family... if they talked

her lies would be brought out into the light of

Samantha would lose

was really about to freak out,