As soon as Wilma uttered those words, the air inside the heated car turned icy, like the bitter cold of winter.

Bella and Steven exchanged a startled glance, both hearts racing.

Bella quickly asked, "Wilma, what do you mean by 'mental issues"?"

Wilma's face twitched slightly, as if recalling something deeply unsettling.

She took a shaky breath before speaking. Tve worked for the Salvador family for nearly 30 years now, mostly at the Tideview Manor. Other than the head butler and Chairman Salvador's secretary Paul, not many servants have been there as long as I have.

"When I first joined the Salvador household, I was assigned to serve Chairman Salvador's wife and Young Master Grant. But I wasn't their personal maid. I was just part of the staff doing laundry and other menial tasks. I wasn't trusted with things like serving tea or handling delicate chores.

"At first, I thought Madam Salvador looked down on me because I came from a poor village and was clumsy. But later, I realized that all of Madam Salvador's daily needs were managed by her own trusted people- servants she brought from the Fowler household, her maternal family. It was almost impossible for any of the Salvador family's regular staff to get close to her."

was that? Did Madam Salvador have something to hide from

did have a mental illness?" Bella recalled her and her

with unease. "To be exact, Madam Salvador

was no way to keep it hidden forever. The worst incident was when she lost control and

was dumbfounded. "That's no longer

sentence, unable

have lost all sense of reality, experiencing

why Grant's mother had spiraled into madness, abandoned by her husband,

all this, and Madam Salvador has been gone for

now, I have to tell you everything I know! I believe Young Master Grant inherited his mother's mental issues. Although he seems normal on the outside, he

on Wilma's tense back.

a bloody, horrific memory. "This was over 20 years ago... Young Master Grant had only been living in the Salvador household for

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