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.

ripe. They were big and round, looking really delicious. There were simply too many of them. I figured no

cucumbers on the vine,

I was too bored, I noticed a lot of

was Tory at first. I did not turn my head back to look. "Were you the one

person behind 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

her hand, I figured she was here to

her forehead and

and began to speculate about this

servant because she was calling Tory by his name. She must be someone

it be Tory's

could Tory's mother

be Tory's

still said with a smile, "Hello, are you the one growing the vegetables in this

well

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