“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,

some people who tried to

His cold eyes swept past Marcus and fell

acquainted with Ashton to a certain extent, but not so much with that woman. I regarded her as briefly as I

disquiet did not

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

with Alexander and Emery, this sort of response did not

that many thought that I should

and sincere relief

woman’s reaction, though, was reminiscent of

or this wildly expressive socialite before me, I understood the insinuations hidden within their

her physical resemblance to Ashton, I

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

got her emotions in check and regarded Ashton calmly. “It’s just someone who looks

seem at all worried about

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