Mystery: Who has seen my brother?

Chapter 56 False
The white porcelain teacup shattered to the floor.

"Click-"

There was a sound of breaking and fragments flew out.

"Ah!" Anne screamed and retreated with Audrey.

Susie had already left before the cup fell to the ground and was not hurt.

Audrey felt relieved and wanted to go to the window to see what Susie was calling out to, but she saw a black cat squatting on the window that was originally empty.

Ruirui?

Did Susie just bark at it?
"Oh, dear, what a rotten day it has been," exclaimed Anne. "Perhaps we shall go to church to-morrow and pray for the evil to be banished."

Anne asked a few maids to sweep away the debris. Audrey looked at Ruirui on the window. It seemed that the black cat was only attracted by the noise just now. It took a look inside the house and then jumped out of the window and disappeared into the night.

Audrey stared blankly out the window. She felt that Ruirui seemed very mysterious. This mystery was not the mystery brought about by unknown information but a momentary feeling.

This feeling had no reason and lasted only a moment before disappearing, making Audrey suspect that it was just her illusion.

Ruirui should be just an ordinary cat.

Audrey retracted her gaze, looked at Anne and said, "Annie, let's go."

"Okay, miss."

……

Audrey took Caitlin's arm and boarded the carriage. The crimson moonlight cast a thin veil over the running carriage.

The carriage stopped outside a luxurious villa. Audrey helped her mother get out of the car. Aunt Elena was already standing outside the door waiting for them.

"Oh, my dear Elena," Caitlin looked at the haggard Elena and touched her cheek with heartache, "You..."

Caitlin whimpered, unable to speak.

"Auntie..." Audrey looked at Elena worriedly.

"I'm fine, Caitlin," Elena put her hand on the back of Caitlin's hand and comforted her softly, "Come in quickly, how can we let our little princess endure this cold night wind outside."

"Come in," Elena led Caitlin and Audrey to sit in front of the coffee table, "I have prepared a lot of refreshments for you."

Elena personally took the tea and placed it on the tea table, then said to the maids, “You guys go out.”

"Yes."

Elena watched the maids leave and the door slowly close. She could no longer suppress the sadness in her heart. Tears filled her eyes and rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

"Caitlin, oh, Caitlin," Elena sobbed, "I thought, I thought he loved me."

Caitlin ran over, hugged Elena, and patted her back, not knowing how to comfort her.

Audrey sat across from him, feeling deeply sad. "I didn't expect it to come to this. I just wanted to scare him, and he didn't even bother explaining." Elena wiped her tears and hugged her sister back. "Do you think he feels guilty?"

Caitlin's anger suddenly flared up, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Goddess, did he drug you? You're still thinking about him!"

Caitlin wanted to say more, but she saw her sister's tears pouring down like a flood. She said helplessly and heartbrokenly, "Don't think about him, okay, Elena. Don't think about anything related to him anymore. From now on, stay away from him, stay away from Tingen, and stay away from anything related to him."

"I'm not thinking about him..." Elena stammered, "Besides, I have to go back to Tingen in three days..."

"What!" Caitlin said angrily, "Do you know what you are doing?"

"No, I'm not going to meet him. I asked a security company to investigate Darion. Three days later is the second time I will give them commission." Elena explained hurriedly.

"But..." Audrey hesitated, lowered her eyes to look at her close aunt, and said tactfully, "You can let the housekeeper or maid do these things. Besides, the investigation is over, so you can pay them the full commission before you leave."

"Also, what do you mean by a second time? Will there be a third and fourth time?" Caitlin was much more direct than Audrey's tactfulness.

"No, there's no fourth installment. Our commission is paid in three installments." Elena said weakly, "This is a new commission I placed before I left. It's not finished yet."

Caitlin was so angry that her eyes turned black. "You...you..." She wanted to curse to vent her anger, but her education since childhood and her heartache for her sister prevented her from doing this.

Finally, Caitlin gave up in frustration. She grabbed Elena's arm and said, "In any case, you must not go to Tingen. I'll tell Father, and you shouldn't even think about leaving Backlund for the next few days. Just have the butler or the maid pay the commission. Maybe Father's suspicions were true. He's just a bastard."

"So many years have passed, why are you still harping on this trivial matter?"

"You're still defending him!"

Audrey looked at Aunt Elena, who was crying with her hands covering her mouth. She felt a mixture of sadness and helplessness, and sighed silently. She remembered the term "love brain" coined by Emperor Roselle. Perhaps it referred to Aunt Elena. It was a pity that Emperor Roselle hadn't left any method for dealing with love brain.

Elena's family did not agree with Elena marrying Darion Edgar at the time, but Elena insisted on getting married and even threatened to commit suicide to force the family to reluctantly agree to the marriage.

Audrey had met her former uncle several times. He had a good appearance, temperament and personality, and was good at sweet talk. No wonder he could have charmed Aunt Elena so much.

Elena met Darion while traveling in the Southern Continent. Darion had also made his fortune in the Southern Continent, but later returned to the Northern Continent for Elena. He had many businesses under his control, was very busy, and traveled frequently. When Baron Edgar was away on business, Elena would come to Backlund to visit her family.

When Audrey was a child, Elena would hold her in her arms and tell her their love story with a happy face. Every time they appeared together, they acted very affectionate.

Elena stubbornly believed that her family disapproved of her marriage to Darion Edgar because they looked down on him. To protect Darion Edgar from the nobles' disdain, Elena even left her family and moved out of the Queens District of Backlund to Tingen with Baron Edgar. After their marriage, she dedicated herself to helping Edgar become a noble.

In fact, this is indeed an important reason.

Nobles mostly married each other through alliances, and they paid attention to bloodline and required that their family backgrounds be similar.

At that time, Elena's family tried every possible means to oppose this marriage.

When Elena announced her marriage to Darion Edgar, the family investigated him thoroughly and found that some of Edgar's property had unclear sources, but it seemed to be just a small mistake in the account book.

The mistake was minor, and Elena insisted that it was the staff's negligence, while Elena's father insisted that Edgar was involved in illegal business and that the money was washed too hastily and not cleanly enough. He used this as an excuse to madly attack Edgar and oppose Elena marrying him.

(End of this chapter)