“Okay,” I replied without much hesitancy.

Marcus, who had been silent all this time, also expressed his sentiment. “I’ll go too.”

I paused and turned to Joseph to seek his opinion.

Apparently, it was no issue as Joseph slightly nodded his head, so all of us bundled in and left together.

We saw the sirens roar pass when we turned at the intersection. I guess the police must have been alerted by some passers-by.

…..

Joseph led Marcus and I to an old mansion that appeared to boast a real sense of history behind it.

Anyone with some understanding of real estate would know that the value of heritage sites could not be measured in its modern monetary worth. Only the cream of the crop would be able to reside in places like that.

Inside the living room, Ashton and that Hall woman sat across from each other. The atmosphere appeared somber.

of the room, deliberately incognizant

were ushered to Ashton’s side. “They’re here, Mr. Fuller. Ran into some trouble with some people who tried to abduct them along the way, but

raised his head. His cold eyes swept

with that woman. I regarded her as briefly as I would any stranger that I passed on

disquiet did

seen a ghost. Her eyes were peeled

Alexander and Emery, this

that I should not

Alexander and Emery straddled joy and sincere relief upon

woman’s reaction, though,

this wildly expressive socialite before me, I understood the insinuations hidden within their words. You ought to

from the conversation I overheard and her physical resemblance to Ashton, I understood

clutched at her own chest in a dramatic mixture of astonishment, panic, and disbelief, as though she was suffering

a single line was uttered before she got her emotions in check and regarded Ashton calmly. “It’s just someone who looks

not seem at all worried about flaws

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