After Matteo left the apartment, he found a suitable spot and sat down.

But just as he thought he would not bump into anyone he knew, a car sped by in the neighborhood and someone spotted him.

“Kelly, I’m not sure if I’m seeing things, but I think I just saw your niece’s stepson in Old Town.”

The sky was already dark and the woman in the car was simply taking a cursory glance at the surroundings. If it were not for the sudden beam of light from the tablet that shone right in Matteo’s face in the dark when he switched on the tablet, she would not have even spotted him sitting there all alone.

“Old Town?” Kelly asked, alarmed.

Kelly was at home when her friend called her and told her what she saw.

The family had never had a moment of peace ever since Xandra went to Hayes Corporation to work two days ago.

She was all dressed up and her mood was phenomenally good when she went out. But she came back dejected when she did not even get to enter the company.

“Are you sure you saw that kid?” Kelly asked, her grip tightening around her phone.

“Hm, I think it’s him. Let me go back and check,” the woman said, taking a U-turn and driving back to where she first saw Matteo.

Kelly stole a look at her niece and shook her head. Xandra had been fervently trimming her plants like a psycho for the whole day.

After a few minutes, Kelly’s phone beeped and a photo showed on her screen.

who looked exceptionally familiar. He had a small bag on his back and he was sitting on a staircase, playing with

is really him! This

over. “Cut it out, Xandra. You won’t get to go to the company even if you cut away all the flowers in the world. I have something that you might want to

without saying a word. Tending to plants was never her favorite pastime. But ever since she got back from the company, she had been trimming the bonsai. Even she herself could not understand

since that

Xandra’s blood boil and she clenched her grip tight around the scissors, cutting off another

throwing the pair of scissors

her the photo. “Take a look. Isn’t this

Sebastian?

lightened Xandra’s mood. She hastened her

this?” she asked the moment

she saw him in Old Town. I wonder why Sebastian’s son is there though. What do

as she thought hard. “I don’t think he’ll ever go

know right. He’s Ian Hayes. I don’t think someone of his status will ever go to a place like that. Why not we probe into this? Who knows what we might

keen observation told her things were not as simple as they seemed. She pored over every detail of the picture and her gut feeling told

before instructing their men to do a thorough

the kids to remain under the radar. Although Old Town was not as well-surveilled as New Town, there were still security cameras

before Xandra and Kelly found out about

She lives in Old

at the top of her voice when she looked at the footage on her phone. Her face turned crooked in disgust and anger as if she would rip the woman in her screen into

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