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.

asked slowly, “And now? Do you still want

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


yet her words seemed

to want it. But now, I

Adelyn immediately hurried over. “Well,

lightly and nodded, “Good. Mr. Wemble is a

“That’s wonderful…”

you feel?”

“It’s late. I need to return to the lab. That’s my most important

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eyes reddened at her words. “I don’t have a daughter of my own, so of course I’ve always treated you


“Yes.”

a small sweetness well up inside her, a warmth she rarely knew. When it came to the love of a mother, Adelyn

Henry returned, though their paths never crossed. In such a sprawling estate, it wasn’t unusual to miss each

it go?”

timing–you came back. Let’s go hear from him together,

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