A black Maybach was parked at the back entrance of the orphanage, its lights off and engine idling.

Soon, a figure emerged from the back door, hurriedly approaching and entering the car.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting, Ms. Gillis," the woman apologized respectfully.

Sheryl sat in the car with an air of arrogance, and her legs crossed in a relaxed manner.

She handed a brown envelope to the woman.

"Good work this morning," Sheryl remarked.

The woman took the envelope from Sheryl and had a feel of its thickness.

She smiled from ear to ear.

"All that needed to be done was to cut a brake cable.

It was no trouble at all." Sheryl couldn't be bothered to even glance at the woman she deemed inferior.

Her expression remained cold as she spoke.

"By the way, have you looked into all the volunteers and the teachers at the orphanage like I asked?" "To have," the woman replied confidently.

"I've been here for about a decade.

It was a breeze." She pulled out a stack of documents from her bag and handed them over to Sheryl with both hands.

Taking the papers, Sheryl began to peruse them, her eyes narrowing as she scanned the details.

Suddenly, her eyes widened.

She pulled out a document with a photograph of a striking woman—Amber Altman, the woman Jameson had groomed as Alyssa's substitute.

"This woman...

is a volunteer at the orphanage?" "Yes, Ms. Gillis.

Ms. Altman has been volunteering at our orphanage for over two years.

She also donates to the orphanage annually, so she's well-regarded here." The woman noticed that Sheryl had become quite agitated.

Puzzled, she asked, "Ms. Gillis, are there...

any issues with her?" Sheryl

"She hasn't been

But that's not unusual.

so

can't force them

rare to have someone like Ms. Altman volunteer as long as she

would have given up much earlier, given how exhausting it is." Sheryl knitted her

was a woman named Clara Whitaker who

know who she

even heard of that

time here." Sheryl

pondered, the

was new, yet Amber, who had been a

had approached Clara, asking

unfamiliar with her, he seemed to sense

realization struck Sheryl, and her

glided into the underground parking

exited the car and hurried toward

echo of his hurried footsteps

saved only by Justin's quick

tightly to the woman

heart was being crushed

her ward suddenly swung open as he arrived, and Justin emerged

his tracks, holding

that bleak and empty corridor, the Beckett brothers confronted each other

Jasper stood out like

shrouded in shadow, his sickly pallor the

beneath his sickly exterior lurked a sinister secret

it was

he made his

faint but growing desire welled up

to

the room, Justin smiled and

hour?" Justin asked with

swallowed hard,

Alyssa had an accident

she's only aggravated the old injury on

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