Now that Lucy was safe, Amber forced William to look at her. “What is the meaning of this?” she demanded. “What happened?”
William ignored her and stood up to go. She tried to hold his arm and pulled him back, but he shrugged her off easily; as if she was nothing. Leaving the room, he didn’t even turn back to see how Lucy, who had been coughing hard, was doing.
Looking back to Lucy herself, Amber sighed helplessly.
Meanwhile, Alice strolled through the garden of a majestic villa. She had followed the address she had been given, and she believed that she was at the right place. The garden was beautiful and, though she would have liked to have spent the day there, it was not the reason that she’d come. Once she was through the garden and at the front door of the villa, she took a deep br
