“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.

with a tablet in another part of the room, deliberately incognizant to what was

people who

Ashton replied plainly before he raised his head. His cold eyes swept past Marcus and fell

but not so much with that woman. I regarded her as briefly as I would any stranger that I passed on

disquiet did not elude

a ghost. Her eyes were peeled wide open, face white as a sheet. “You… You’re

encounters with Alexander and Emery, this sort

many thought that I should not still be existent in this

relief upon discovering me similarly

woman’s reaction, though, was reminiscent

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

the conversation I overheard and her physical resemblance to Ashton, I understood that they were family.

at her own chest in a dramatic mixture of astonishment, panic, and disbelief,

Ashton calmly. “It’s just someone who looks like her. The real Scarlett’s dead.

did not seem at

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