“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.

was fiddling with a tablet in another part of the room, deliberately

into some trouble with some people who tried to abduct them along the way, but my

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

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

disquiet did not

to me as though she had just seen a ghost. Her eyes were peeled wide open,

this sort of response

that many thought that I should not still be existent

joy and sincere relief upon discovering me similarly came across as

reaction, though, was

wildly expressive socialite before me, I understood

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

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

her emotions in check and regarded Ashton calmly. “It’s just someone who looks like her. The real Scarlett’s

she did not seem at all worried about flaws in

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