“What a cursed child.”
“They say she just returned the day before Sir Barkis died.”
“Just returned and looked what had happened to her father. Cursed, indeed.”
“No wonder she is locked up before. She brings bad luck.”
It was only some of the whispers Cassandra hears around her as they are in the wake of Barkis. Dressed in all black with Amelia on her side, they take in every curious stare at them and whispers loud enough for them to hear. But it was not only Amelia who gets to be bad-mouthed by them, even she.
“Ever since those Salvatore’s started to live in Vallen Estate, deaths are happening one after the other. First, Sir Francis, and now, Sir Barkis. I just think that woman killed them in order to get their wealth.”
“Indeed, such an ungrateful one and so full of herself.”
Cassan
