She gazed at her hands, which had toiled on the land alongside her parents’. They were coarse and sallow, and the sight of them made her temper flare.

How is Charlotte that fortunate to have been adopted by the Field family?

Her anger and jealousy grew the more she thought about it.

Amidst her resentment, she drifted off to sleep.

At the first light of dawn, the rain, having poured unceasingly for the past couple of days, finally showed signs of stopping. As the downpour slowed to a drizzle, the pattering gave way to a steady, discordant drip.

Some of the early risers in the camp had already begun their morning drills when Ashlyn and Lucas returned.

When they passed the stove, Lucas saw several familiar faces.

Upon closer inspection, he frowned.

“Are those the chefs from the Imperial Hotel?”

spatula in his hand and masterfully flipping the vegetables in the pan, one of them called out

smiled. “Go easy with the seasoning,

roared with boisterous laughter. “Don’t worry, Ms.

joined in

the Imperial Hotel

waiters? What

the instruments. Very adeptly

not perturb Ashlyn. “Oh, their thesis relates to geology. Usually, they would fool around in the Imperial Hotel and head to work when it was time for them to

froze in his tracks and gazed at her in disbelief. “Your staff has such hidden talents!

no experts. They merely dabble in geology,”

Imperial Hotel in a

the meantime, we’ll put up some temporary shelters that won’t

first build such

we all work together,” another young man piped

“The guard became an

house, isn’t it? Let’s go. I’m sleepy. I want to take a

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