“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.

fiddling with a tablet in another part of the room, deliberately incognizant to what was happening on this

here, Mr. Fuller. Ran into some trouble with some people who tried to abduct them along the way,

raised his head. His cold eyes

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

did not

seen a ghost. Her eyes were peeled wide open, face white as

encounters with Alexander and Emery, this sort of response

seem that many thought that I

Alexander and Emery straddled joy and sincere relief upon discovering me similarly came

though, was

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

her whatsoever. But judging from the conversation I overheard and her physical resemblance to Ashton, I understood that they were family. Hence,

of astonishment, panic, and disbelief, as though she was suffering a cardiac arrest.

just someone who looks like

did not seem at all worried

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