Chapter 42 Mr. Nelson broke the rules again
"Miss Linsey didn't let me follow her, asking me to come home first."
Remington was speechless. "She went to date a man. Of course, she didn't let you follow her. Next time, you must follow her and find out who she is dating."
"Yes, sir!"
"Now leave!"
Remington pummeled the bed in depression. Although this was just a contract marriage, he didn't want to be a cuckold.
This woman didn't know what shame was, but he thought about helping her!
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Bentley was heading for Jinger County.
Jinger County was on the outskirts of the Center City. It was a quaint little town that was not far away.
About an hour later, they reached their destination.
Cecelia was to look for Ida Williams on this trip. Ida had used to be the personal maid of her mother Leila Done. Leila married into the Linsey family and introduced a husband to Ida, who then married into Jinger County.
When Leila got sick, Ida came back to attend to her until the latter passed away. Therefore, in order to find out what her mother had suffered from before she died, she had to visit Ida.
Referring to the family address Ida had provided back then, they came along the bluestone walkway to her home.
Verda knocked on the door, but no one came to open it. Then he tried to push the door, and the door instantly opened.
"I think there're people in the house. Let's go in and check it out!"
Cecelia went in with Verda.
"Is someone here? Aunt Ida, are you at home?" Cecelia asked while walking.
She walked through the front yard and came to the main hall. "Aunt Ida, Aunt Ida? It seems there's no one at home."
When she was about to leave, she heard some noise coming from the room. She and Verda immediately went over, walking into the room. Seeing the scene there, Cecelia screamed in horror, "Ahhhh…"
"Miss Linsey! Uh…"
Verda was also terrified. They had not expected that Ida, whom they were looking for, was now lying in a pool of blood on the floor in the room.
She was not dead yet, looking in the direction of the door with her eyes open. The noise they had just heard was made by her by slapping the blood on the floor.
"Aunt Ida! Aunt Ida…"
After confirming that the person lying on the floor was Aunt Ida who had taken care of her mother back then, Cecelia was astonished. She rushed up and asked, "Aunt Ida, what's wrong? What happened?"
The scene was too bloody that Cecelia wept sadly.
Ida still had her last breath. When she saw Cecelia, tears with blood came out of her eyes. She opened her mouth as if to say something.
"What did you say, Aunt Ida?"
Cecelia held Ida's hand, lowered her head, and leaned close to her, hoping to hear her words.
"Leave the city… leave the city…"
Ida did not finish the complete sentence, but had consumed all her energy, her head down to the side.
"Aunt Ida! League the sea? Aunt Ida!"
Ida then died, died in Cecelia's arms.
Seeing that she died but kept her eyes open, Cecelia felt so grieved.
What did Aunt Ida want to tell her at her last moment?
Cecelia's tears flooded down, falling to Ida's face drop by drop. After Ida's hand slipped from her palm, something was left there.
Cecelia put Ida down, opened the thing that was like a crumpled paper ball, and saw that it was an old photo with half missing. The girl in the photo was her mother at a young age, right?
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