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With no exchange of words, Harlan departed with a stern countenance.

Only he understood that their conversation had shattered his composure.

He hadn’t initially believed the accounts of Mavis and Holden.

However, the servants’ dialogue prompted a change in perspective. He now entertained the notion that Mavis hadn’t betrayed Marcus’ predicament to the gangsters.

In the chilly night’s embrace, Harlan ascended a mountain peak.

Leaning against his car door, he absorbed the piercing cold in silence.

Involuntarily, his thoughts wandered to the anguish Mavis must have endured during her punishment, and he pondered her current whereabouts and circumstances.

an object from his

very item that had tumbled onto his bed in the wake

beads, reminiscing about the day when Mavis had seated herself upon his somber bed. Raising the edge of her dress, she exposed her leg, entreating him to fasten the red anklet around her ankle. Cheeks aflame, she had pledged herself to him, professing that he would

image of himself securing the anklet

eyes, only

Angela’s Library

sensed an intangible red anklet enveloping his

Millie gathered the documents she needed and was on her way to the company when Marcus intercepted

forehead. Is my fever still there?”

determined to go to work on Saturday. Naturally, Marcus opposed, thinking

boss and didn’t work on weekends, he

Stay home and rest,” Millie told