"My family wanted to reclaim the property. But by the time they found your mother, she had already transferred the rights to her husband, who was an ambitious and rather cunning man," he recounted with a mysterious tone, and from what I was hearing, it did seem to be a tragedy for the Sallow family.
"What was so special about that property?"
“He was a businessman. He hadn't been in business long since creating his first company and prospering, but I suppose he took advantage of that issue to mingle with the upper class so both he and your mother made a deal with my family. And it seems that since then, you were promised to my brother.”
The story Ethan was telling made my family seem like opportunists who had only used their daughter and that supposed property to become part of the Eli
