I waited in the living room for almost two hours before Edmund finally came downstairs. The top two buttons of his shirt were undone, revealing scratch marks on his neck. Besides that, his hair was a little messy, and his pants were wrinkled…

All of this proved that he had just been "taken care of" by Sophia upstairs.

He saw me studying him but didn't care at all. He sat down in front of me and said, "Thanks for helping her."

"I knew her long before ...