It felt like a farewell was taking place.
"Mom, what's wrong? What's happening?" Avery Jane's heart slowly sunk, a sense of unease looming over her as if something bad was truly about to happen.
The third day, already the third day, could this curse really be coming true?
"It's nothing, except that Evelyn is now Mr. Hughes' woman. The master said he must give your stepmother an explanation, and I think it might not be a bad thing for me to go to the temple to live a devout life and pray for Wenyard. It's just that I've lived in this house for decades, and it's filled with Wenyard's presence. I'm really a bit reluctant to leave." Remi Wright choked as she spoke, having just returned from the mountain temple, only to be greeted by such a situation.
She should have figured it out long ago; Harper Johnson had been dreaming of becoming the lady of the house for quite some time.
Now that her daughter had risen to power, the thing she feared had nonetheless happened.
