Chapter 27

Ryder, with his stern face, seemed to ignore everyone else, only addressing Agnes, “Come with me.”

Agnes nodded, gave a quick greeting briefly, and under everyone’s gaze, followed Ryder to the balcony.

The balcony was relatively quiet. A glass door completely isolated the hustle and bustle inside.

Ryder broke the silence, “Where did you sneak off to? I’ve been looking for you.”

She had just…..

Agnes’s face began to heat up, thankfully concealed by the night.

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Agnes fibbed, “After you left, I heard footsteps in the hall. Thought someone was heading my way, so I took off to the backyard for a bit. Got lost, didn’t expect it to be such a maze.”

“The Whitfield’s

his gaze falling on Agnes’s dress.

wild cherry trees in the backyard a few days ago. There were too

Agnes was lying, didn’t expose

glanced at her hand, where she had scratched it when climbing over the wall, and laughed it off, “Just a

have come in through the front door. Why did you climb over

“Well….. I had some stuff to

wasn’t that Agnes didn’t want to tell him. She just didn’t know how to say to him.

to say, just forget about it.”

then, someone called Ryder’s name. Seemed like one of his

mind me. I’ll

you need

and Ryder turned around

with this Icy man. Other than their not–so–pleasant first encounter, they had never

expect him to help her out today.

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