Your master?”


    “Yes,” the man said.


    “In order to show my sincerity, I have brought you a gift.


    I believe you will like it very much.


    ”


    He pped his hands, and someone carried arge sack into the room.


    Tess stepped forward and opened it carefully.


    When she saw what was in the sack, her face turned pale with fear, and she fell to the floor.


    “No! It’s.


    This is…”


    A woman had been bundled into the sack.


    She was unconscious.Content ? N?velDrama.Org.


    Her tangled hair covered her face, and she smelled awful.


    Her arms and legs were mottled with old and new bruises.


    She must have been beaten.


    Tess nced up at the man, confused.


    He said nothing, He just smiled, but that smile was full of meaning.


    Covering her mouth and nose, resisting the urge to vomit, Tess lifted the woman’s messy hair.


    “Is it… Is it Eleanor?”


    Wasn’t Eleanor in jail, put there by Lucinda?


    Tess had heard that Eleanor had been sentenced to ten years.


    How could she be here?


    “Wait! The Roberts called off the engagement; her rtionship with the Turner family was also destroyed.


    Now she is nothing.


    What use is she to me?”


    The man’s smile widened.


    “You’ll know that soon.


    ”


    For the past few days, Nathaniel had been recuperating while Lucinda was busy at work.


    The two of them lived in the same vi, but seldom got to meet each other.


    One morning, Lucinda went downstairs after washing up.


    As she reached the bottom tread of the stairs, she smelled the delicious aroma of food.


    Breakfast was already on the dining room table.


    Each dish had been ced in a careful order.


    Lucinda smiled.


    She was amazed how quickly Nathaniel’s cooking skills had improved.


    She entered the kitchen but found no one there.