Chapter 168

After Bella left, Cedric wiped the smile from his face and took out a scrapbook he had neglected for a long time. It contained information that Cloud had investigated about the Listerwell family.

He had once thrown it away, then later taken it back out and carefully pasted everything inside again. At the time, he hadn’t understood why he was doing that. Only much later did he realize the reason—by then, his interest in Harriet had already gone beyond mere curiosity.

As he flipped through the pages, his hand suddenly stopped.

It was the section with a newspaper article dated June 28, 1866, about the fatal boating accident at Albrecht Park, along with photographs taken at the scene.

‘A face you feel sorry for?’

With his fingertips, he traced the photos labeled victim’s family.

The pictures were old and blurry, but it wasn’t hard to recognize Harriet. He could vividly…