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live.’
    ‘You didn’t need tell him that. I can find a place on my own.’
    Anna shrugged with a delight ed innocence in her clear eyes. ‘He’s sending someone over and you should pack.’
    ‘What?’
    Anna grinned. For once in her life, everything seemed to be going her way. She turned around and bounded for my room.
    ‘Anna, come back here,’ I called and chased after her.
    ‘Do you have a suitcase?’
    ‘What? No.’
    It was the truth. Alison had borrowed it when she moved out and she hadn’t the chance to return it yet.
    ‘Huh. Alright. That can be arranged.’
    ‘Anna, don’t,’ I said as her fingers expertly tapped out another message to her brother. The teenager seemed to take delight in maddening me. She jumped across the bed and managed to slip away as a reply came through.
    ‘ Jace is coming.’
    ‘Who’s Jace?’
    ‘The gardener.’
    In twenty minutes, a knock came at the do or and Anna raced to answer it. Jace was a middle aged man with tanned skin and dark greying hair. He had a friendly demeanor about him, like that fun uncle you could always talk to at a family gathering. I saw his surprise when he caught the jovial smile on Anna’s face. It was something that he had not seen in a long time since his employment with under Tristan Vice.
    ‘This way,’ said Anna as she bounded down the hallway.
    ‘And you must be Miss Walters,’ he said to me.
    ‘Phoebe will be fine.’
    Jace came in with two large cream colored empty suitcases. I noticed that they were Prada and was forced to pack my stuff in them. After emptying my wardrobe, it didn’t even fill the first suitcase. There wasn’t much in the living room except for my ancient second hand laptop and some photographs of my family. What was left was the old couch, coffee table and an outdated television set. I attempted to salvage the things in the kitchen but the rumble blocked my path. Within the hour, I found myself in the car with Anna as Jace drove us away, I looked out the window and something told me that it was going to be the last time I ever see the building again. The landlord finally got his wish without officially kicking me out.
     

Chapter 5 – The home of Tristan Vice
     
     
     
     
    I was shocked to find out that I would be living in a mansion.
    ‘Don’t worry, this isn’t the Main House,’ Anna said when she caught the look on my face. I felt a wave of apprehension as the car pulled up the long driveway. ‘It’s Tristan’s house. Jace, please don’t make me go back to the Main House.’
    I peered out the car’s window and is thoroughly impressed. The structure was two stories high and seemed to be made of metal and glass. It was an architect’s dream design job and exuded with modernity and money. It was clear that Tristan Vice is incredibly rich as my eyes swept across the endless manicured lawns and topiaries.
    ‘No Miss Annabelle, I wouldn’t dare. It’s been a while since I’ve seen life in you. Phoebe is doing a great lot of good for you and I wouldn’t want to have her too far from you,’ said the gardener. For some odd reason, I began to feel that Jace was more than just someone who tended the lawn. Perhaps it was in the way he spoke to Anna and me.
    ‘Though,’ Jace continued, ‘I’ll have to move your things from the Main House, Miss Annabelle.’
    ‘Go for it. I’m not going up as long as she is still there.’
    ‘She?’ I asked.
    Anna looked out the window and crossed her arms. I sensed a darkness approaching in her mood and turned towards Jace for an explanation.
    ‘Mrs Karen Vice,’ said Jace, ‘Mr Elliot Vice’s second wife.’
    Oh. So that is the name of the mother that convinced her father to drug her with a cocktail of unnecessary pills.
    ‘I don’t want to hear her name,’ hissed Anna.
    ‘I apologize Miss Annabelle.’
    ‘Come off it Anna,’ I told her, ‘don’t spoil the fact that I’m forced to move in with you.’
    My words caused the effect that I wanted. Anna