Chapter 300 What Lies Beneath

Third Person POV

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Aubrey spoke with the same calm detachment throughout. Even when she admitted that, at thirteen or fourteen, she had wanted to kill Aurelia, her tone never wavered.

Wemble’s brows drew together slightly, but soon smoothed as he put on his gentle smile again.

He asked a question that seemed almost trivial. “So, did you ever rent that dress?”

Aubrey’s lips curved. “No.”

“Why not?”

“Because the money humiliated me. I didn’t even go to the dance. I exchanged the nine hundred for coins and skipped them across the lake…”

Wemble blinked in surprise. Aubrey smiled faintly, and in her eyes a glimmer of starlight seemed to flash. “Surprised? But that’s when I learned how to skip stones. The ripples spreading across the moonlit water… it was beautiful.”

Still, the thought pricked at him: that night by the lake, had she been smiling? Or crying? The image tugged at him until something sharp twisted in his chest.

Wemble asked slowly, “And now? Do

had lingered in her expression vanished. The instant she stood, she was once


tilted with faint disdain, yet her words

want it. But now,

out, Adelyn immediately

lightly and nodded, “Good.

“That’s wonderful…”

you feel?”

but found nothing she could read. Aubrey added, “It’s late. I need to return to the lab. That’s my most important task. But thank you–truly. You’re the one who treats me

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have a daughter of my own, so of course I’ve always treated you like mine… Go on, don’t worry about me. I’ll speak with Mr. Wemble


“Yes.”

When it came to

Aubrey left, Henry returned, though their paths never crossed. In

it go?” he

about to ask,” Adelyn replied. “Perfect timing–you came back.

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