Jaden said, “She’s very smart, and much stronger than her sister. Tell her the truth.”From the look in the older sister’s eyes, one could tell—this was a clever girl. Her family back home had never revealed anything to her, yet she could still sense that something was wrong. Her parents had vanished, and her brother only visited occasionally. Especially after this recent accident, the unease in her heart had only grown stronger.It was perfectly natural for a delicate girl in trouble to instinctively seek help from her family, but Janine had known that the call might never go through.Lara might not have noticed, but she did. Every time they spoke with their family, it was always their brother who called them. Whenever they tried to call him, it was always his secretary—a man with a cold, emotionless voice—who answered.The man would tell her that her brother was busy, on a business trip, or resting. There was always some reason he couldn’t take their call, though he would call th
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