Audrey and Gregory were ecstatic. “I heard that!”

“Me too! Daddy’s the best!”

Everything seemed like it was finally falling in place, and our life would become peaceful once more.

 

My hopes were shattered two days later. That afternoon, Joseph entered our house with an anxious expression on his face, tipping me off that I had been too naive about our situation.

“Go on. What’s wrong?” I was not in the greatest of moods at his arrival. My frustration grew at the problems that never seemed to leave us alone.

Sometimes, I wondered why people preferred havoc and chaos over a peaceful life.

 

“Nora met Shaun alone.”

 

Surprised, I asked, “Alone?”

 

Joseph nodded before continuing, “They even made sure to keep Ms. Audrey in

 

sighing at Shaun’s change of

the Hall residence, yet three days was all it took for Shaun to

guess children are less

wholly unfounded. Perhaps Shaun had never forgotten how he was abused at the hands of his

the face of Joseph’s news. Rather expressionlessly, he flipped through the newspaper in

Sometime later, I turned to Ashton and stated, “You

looked as unruffled as before. The ghost of a smile appeared on his face as his eyes pored through the financial news as if it was some piece of juicy gossip. “If I

the beginning.” Frankly,

folded his newspaper and met my gaze. “To a businessman, anything can lead to a deal.

in his words, and I saw

in the village are the ones scheming for profit. Shaun is just a kid, and we’ve given him a home. Things might not turn out as poorly as

and placed the folded newspaper across his knees. “I bet that he’ll disappoint you

let him pass on news about our family to Nora. Isn’t there a

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