The Woman From Hell

After that, the servant took me to the room next door.

The villa was huge, yet Tory made me stay in the room next to his. Though curious, I did not ask him anything.

Solomon started investigating the things I told him to investigate, and I could only wait. Apart from waiting, there was nothing I could do.

Tory was very idle. After having a video conference in the study, he went swimming in the pool behind the villa.

There were only a few people in the huge villa. My mind was a mess. I could not sit still, so I went downstairs to the courtyard.

I strolled around the backyard and was

surprised when I saw a vegetable garden.

Tory looked like an ungrounded gentry, and having a vegetable garden at home was very unlike himself. Besides, the vegetables were growing so well too.

I was sure that the vegetable garden was not tended by a servant as there were a lot of fresh flowers planted around the garden. A servant was surely not daring enough to make a vegetable garden in the center of the flowers themselves.

simply too many of them. I figured no one was there to eat them, so

cucumbers on the vine, but as they had been left too

yellow and wilt. As I was too bored, I noticed a lot of weeds had grown in the vegetable garden. I squatted down

thought it was Tory at first. I did not turn my head back to look. "Were you the one who planted these vegetables? I didn't

me made no reply, so I turned my head back curiously, only to realize that it was not Tory but a woman who looked to be about 40 years old. She was wearing a light blue T-shirt, a pair of black jeans, and a pair

hand, I figured she

sweat on her forehead and asked with a smile, "Are you

and began to

because she was calling Tory by

it be Tory's

Tory's mother

this be

was unsure of her identity, I still said with a smile, "Hello, are you the one growing the vegetables

really well

handed them to me. "Try them, I just picked them. I don't use pesticides, so you