I was right.

Otis didn’t show up again after Caden came back until Madelyn knew about what happened to me. They asked me who was the stranger who helped me. I couldn’t tell them that it was someone who trespassed the Einsworth Manor and introduced himself to me as the newly hired gardener.

I wondered. If I told Caden that it was the man who saved me from the prying eyes of the people in the mall where I used to sneak in, would he remember his face?

“It’s nothing. Maybe I just misunderstood things,” I answered with a weird smile and Madz immediately caught my eyes, knowing that something...