Sylvia's POV:

When Rufus took out the pendant, his expression changed dramatically. "Noreen's scent is on it."

"What?! How?" Leonard's eyes also went as wide as saucers. When Leonard came, we told him about the black witch. We didn't hide it from him anymore. So now he knew that our other purpose of coming here was to find Noreen and save Blair.

"Geoffrey never mentioned this pendant before. It seems that he's still hiding something from us," Rufus said coldly as he eyed the pendant in his hand.

Rufus and Leonard proceeded to discuss the potential origin of the pendant. I stood quietly aside without saying anything, but my heart was secretly in turmoil.

I remembered clear as day that my mother wore the exact same pendant when I was a child. One day, I accidentally knocked the pendant against the staircase, leaving a small chip on its corner.

The pendant Rufus was holding now had the exact same chip. That could only mean that they were one and the same pendant!

This whole time, I thought that the pendant was cremated with my mother's body. Why would it appear here for no reason? And it carried the scent of Noreen, too...

raced wildly in my chest and beads of sweat formed on my forehead. After taking a few

made me shiver. I was sure that

pendant was

Sylvia?" Only then did Rufus notice that

about it for a while, I decided not to say anything about it. I just suggested

to be worried that I might have anything to do with the black witch. He had that exact look on his face whenever we talked about

runs a gem business. Maybe she would know where the pendant's

Noreen's scent on it, so I insisted on

you." Without any hesitation,

briskly and listened to whatever the caller had

He's coming now. He's probably going to talk about the result of the interrogation," Rufus said after hanging

were stained with blood. It seemed that the interrogation didn't go as smoothly as we

on the shoulder. Then

sold to an auction house for her beauty." Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Find ɴøᴠel.nᴇt website on

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