Amelia held the purple jade pendant between her fingers, trying to clear her mind and piece things together.
What role exactly was Abby playing in all this?
Aunt Ashford’s boldness suggested she wasn’t just an ordinary maid, and Zane’s attitude was highly suspicious. However, Amelia didn’t believe Abby was Zane’s illegitimate daughter.
It was simple logic. If Abby truly had a blood connection to Zane, she wouldn’t have been just a sponsored student of the Cromwell family. She would have replaced her and become the seventh young lady of the Cromwell family.
Everything was full of contradictions.
She remembered her grandfather saying that the reason the Cromwell family had fully sponsored Abby, making her different from the other sponsored students, was because she resembled him so much
