The Love that Never Really Dies

A hush fell over the ballroom. Even Millie, who was about to lash out at Sebastian, kept quiet after seeing the thunderous look on the latter’s face.

“So that’s why she didn’t want to attend the ball with me?” he muttered. The rising anger was like a blazing inferno that threatened to boil him from the inside out.

Karl silently agreed, but he did not dare to say that out loud. Instead, he gestured at Sebastian’s hand, from which a piece of broken glass shard was protruding. “Mr. Hayes, are you all right…? You’re bleeding.”

His words fell on deaf ears as Sebastian stood. “Excuse me,” he addressed the crowd, “I have some matters to attend. Enjoy the rest of your evening.”

The rest watched him leave in stunned silence. None dared to question his abrupt departure, but the murderous look on his face had everyone speculating about what had happened.

Eager to write off the episode, Millie quickly found someone else as her beau for the night.

Meanwhile, Sasha and Solomon were sitting face to face at a cafe.

She had assumed it would take another two hours before Sebastian returned from the ball. By her calculations, there would be plenty of time for her to meet with Solomon and head back to the hotel with her roommate none the wiser.

Expressionless, she demanded, “Go on, what evidence do you have to prove that you are Yancy’s son?”

Young was the best friend of Sasha’s

Matilda, and Yancy were the

from a long line of doctors and scholars respectively, Heather and Sharon were

one of the wealthiest socialites in

real estate business. With riches abound and coupled with good looks, Yancy had never been short of suitors

intended her to marry one who was well-matched in social and economic status. However, Yancy staunchly opposed to such an arrangement. After several fights with her parents, she left home for several months, only to return with a bun in her oven. To say that the rest

and rumors about the baby’s father circulated wildly within the city for

finally managed to see her best friend after the latter was disowned by her

pregnant, but she had refused to divulge the identity of the baby’s father. Not knowing how else to help, Heather had provided her friend with a hefty amount of money before Yancy vanished from the

her again, it was when someone showed up at her doorstep with an eight-year-old boy. The

Yancy left to be with the man she loved, especially when she had said, in a

death, Sasha’s mother never found out what had happened all those years ago and who was the child’s

But she didn’t tell me it’s someone around me. Why would she hide this from me if it’s really you?” Frustrated at the situation, Sasha asked with an irked expression. Solomon said it himself that he attended the same

a long moment of silence, the man sitting opposite her took out an envelope. “My mother told her not to say anything. When I was sent back to Avenport, your mom