With my engagement ceremony to Keith just around the corner, I received a message that Spencer had sent through someone, saying that he had some things my mother had left behind and that if I did not come pick them up in person, he would get rid of them.
I knew my mother had indeed stored some old belongings at the Laurier mansion before she passed away, but I was not sure whether he was telling the truth or not, and after turning it over in my mind for a while, I decided not to go, because if he tried anything, I would never be able to clear my name. Once I made that decision, I put it out of my mind completely.
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The next day, Keith went out in the morning and had not come back by nightfall, and he had deliberately shaken off his driver, which sent the entire Zade family into a pa
