Adam tried recalling and nodded slightly. “I remember.” However, he was more perplexed now. “Who’s this person?”

Jeremy filled him in with every detail he had gathered, which Adam found inconceivable. “This person has quite the background. How did Shirley know him?”

“It is said that your sister appeared suddenly at the Gray Manor over ten years ago. Since then, your sister had constantly been with Carter, day and night, but then she left the Gray Manor for some unknown reason a few years back,” Madeline explained.

Adam’s long brows snapped together, his eyes betrayed his helplessness, hesitating to speak.

Madeline caught this change in his eyes. “Adam, why did your sister leave home back then? She would have been just a little girl more than ten years ago.”

Adam gave a melancholic and wry smile as he sat down on the chair, somewhat weakly.

“She has always misunderstood. She wrongly thought that our parents do not love her and that there’s no place for her in this family. In reali