A surge of pain shot through Alessa’s heart. She wriggled free from Brian’s grasp, averting her eyes, and choked back her tears. Brian kept his eyes on her in a cool manner without a word. Finally, he sneered and gave a hard kick to the stair before he tossed out of the house in anger.
*
The servants in the Sterling’s house found that their young master Sterling hadn’t come for a long time. Each time old Sterling called him and asked him to come for dinner, he refused.
Since Miss Schultz moved in, Mr. Sterling had been coming over a lot, and sometimes he would come on his own without old Sterling’s call. Everyone could see that Mr. Sterling come here for Miss Schultz, and because of Miss Schultz, it seemed like the relationship between young Sterling and his father had become much bett
