“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.

part of the room, deliberately incognizant

some trouble with some people who tried to

raised his head. His

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

disquiet did

as though she had just seen a ghost. Her eyes were peeled wide open, face white as a sheet. “You… You’re

my encounters with Alexander and Emery, this sort of response did not

seem that many thought that I should not still be

joy and sincere relief upon

reaction, though, was

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

judging from the conversation I overheard and her physical resemblance to

in a dramatic mixture of astonishment, panic, and disbelief, as though she was

and regarded Ashton calmly. “It’s just someone who looks like

she did not seem

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