Smiles appeared on everyone’s faces.
Mr. Snyder Sr. smiled. “Why didn’t you tell me you were back home?”
Felicity grinned. “I decided at thest minute to invite two of my friends over for lunch!”
When Mr. Snyder Sr. heard her response, he groaned. “You invited your friends to have lunch at the
dining hall? What will they think of the Snyder family?”
Angelica sniffled, her heart racing a mile a minute.
The dishes they had at the dining hall wereparable to those served at a five-star hotel.
“Ru… Ruby… you’re back?”
Suddenly, an old woman whose hair had turnedpletely white reached a chapped hand out to touch
Nash’s cheek, her lips fluttering as she spoke in a wizened voice that trembled.
Felicity hurried forward to hold the olddy back. “Grandma, this is Nash, my friend!” “Ruby… don’t get
in the way of my Ruby…”
The olddy turned and mped her teeth on Felicity’s shoulder.
Felicity gritted her teeth and silently endured the throbbing pain on her shoulder.
Felicity’s parents hurried forth and pulled the olddy away.
An embarrassed look appeared on Felicity’s face. “I’m sorry, Nash. My grandmother is not exactly
sane…”
Nash smiled a gentle smile. “It’s alright!”
Felicity then turned toward her grandfather and said, “Grandpa, I still have some things I need to take
care of, I’m going to leave now…”
She then left Snyder Estate alongside Nash and Angelica.
Felicity drove the two to the airport and immediately made phone calls to multiple inspectors so she
couldunch an unannounced investigation into the Telfair Hotel.
Night had fallen by the time Felicity dragged her exhausted self back home.
When she entered the mansion, she saw Caleb hanging from the ceiling and receiving a beating from
their father.
Caleb was screaming and crying in pain.
“Felicity… save me…
“I’ll do so next time!”
Felicity smiled sweetly before asking, “Dad, where’s Grandpa?”
Mr. Snyder panted, “He’s’in his study!”
In the study on the second floor…
Mr. Snyder Sr. heaved a long sigh.
He walked to the vault and extended a chapped hand to swivel thebination lock.
The vault let out several creaks.
Then, its door slowly swung open.
At the very back of the vault was a secretpartment that contained a single yellowing photograph.
He brought the photograph over to the table, and said gently, “This is the only photo we have of Ruby. I
know you miss her greatly, and I do as well.”
The old woman’s hands trembled as she took the photograph.
It was a picture of a gorgeous-looking girl.
Her hair was pulled back into two braids that framed her face, and she wore a simple patchwork blouse
and a straw hat.
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Though her outfit was in, it did nothing to mar her graceful appearance.
The olddy gently stroked the girl’s face, tears welling in her eyes. “Ruby… Ruby… have you returned
to see your mother?”
Knock, knock, knock!
Mr. Snyder Sr. shuddered and immediately grabbed the picture back from his wife so he could return it
to the secretpartment. He then twisted thebination lock and watched the vault door slowly
return to its position.
Then, he stood and walked over to the window before saying, “Come in…”
Felicity rolled her sleeves up as she entered and said happily, “Grandpa, I’ve shut Hugh Sullivan’s hotel
down!”
Mr. Snyder Sr. sighed. “The Green Bamboo Association is scarily influential. You need to tread with
caution!”
Felicity said proudly, “I assumed this position because I wanted to disband the Green Bamboo
Association and restore peace to Sagen!”
Mr. Snyder Sr. smiled proudly. “That’s a wonderful idea you have, but the Green Bamboo Association
has a lot of power. It will be extremely difficult to rattle them!”
Felicity was not the least bit daunted. “If I can’t do it in one year, I’ll try to aplish it in ten years. If I
still can’t do it in ten years, I’ll work on it for the next fifty years. Either way, the
Green Bamboo Association won’t be able to get rid of me…”
Wanting to stop her grandfather from worrying, Felicity hurriedly changed the subject. ” Grandpa…
Who is that Ruby that grandma was referring to?”