Chapter 154

"Oh! It's come back to me! Two days before the wedding, I think — my sister and Emily suddenly showed up at our estate and made off with everything of mine — every single valuable and all the money in my safe! Twenty years' worth of savings, absolutely everything, down to the last item! My sister even beat me with some strange cane! And Emily seemed to be in on it with some pawnbroker called Rainbow — something — they were going to leave my things with him! After that — except for the wedding day itself — I haven't seen my sister once!"

Kael's lip curved into a thin, cold smile.

"Rainbow, you say…"

He gave a slow, deep nod — the nod of a man who has just confirmed what he already suspected.

Then he looked down at the trembling Jacqueline before him and tilted his head slightly…