Chapter 188

“Colin, are you hurt? Who’s been picking on you?”

“They ruined the cupcake I made for you…”

Memories, strange and unfamiliar, began to surface in my mind–snapshots of a little girl crouching beside a boy, inquiring about his injuries.

The little boy was holding a smashed cupcake, his eyes brimming with tears.

The girl was dressed in a red dress; she took a piece of the ruined cupcake and tasted it. “It’s so sweet.”

My head pounded as if it were about to split open. I rubbed my temples, but the alien memories clung to me, persistent and unsettling.

What were they?

“Madam, would you like something to eat?” The nanny’s voice came softly through the door.

Her words pulled me back to the present, and I stepped outside. “Where’s Caleb?”

The nanny glanced around before speaking in a hushed tone, “Mr. Caleb… we don’t know where he has gone.”

A frown creased my brow. Where could he be?

“Madam, I haven’t been here long, but you might ask Wendy; she’s been with the Langley family for ages.”

I nodded, not wanting to trouble the young nanny further, and made my way downstairs.

Langley family had undergone a complete overhaul. The old staff was gone, except for Wendy, who still managed the kitchen; the rest had been let go.

short with Colin, and I hoped I hadn’t hurt his

asked me to tell you to

Still, I couldn’t shake off a nagging worry for him; his

say where he was going?”

“We dare not pry into

few bites, I left the house,

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Chapter 188

the red dress and the boy with

“Phoebe…”

“Phoebe.”

boy’s face was a blur, but I remembered a cut at the corner

Lips, nose, eyes…

suddenly sat upright, my

Colin.

was I thinking of Colin’s face? The young boy with mixed

our destination

I stepped out to face the dilapidated alleyway,

City’s last slum, an undeveloped demolition

a melting pot of the desperate

there to see Zoe, Carter’s sister–the woman with mental challenges, yet somehow

third

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