Councilman Joshua stared at the woman after the woman claimed to be Miss Adams' mother. His eyebrows were drawn together as he stared at the woman as he was there when the body was taken to the council. He wondered if there was some sort of joke going around here, where the woman and Miss Adams was playing with him. But when his eyes shifted to look at the young vampiress, she looked nothing but serious.
Belle didn't know how to manage both the people together. Here was the councilman who wanted to interrogate Lucas and here was a person who was not her mother but a creature who had sheathed itself as her mother.
"Councilman, did you have questions for me?" asked Lucas and the man spared another look before turning to Lucas.
"Yes, it was about Miss Susan and Miss Olivia's case," answered the councilman.
"Why don't we take this to another room?" Lucas tried to manoeuvre the councilman out of the kitchen and away from the fake Mrs. Adams.
