Chapter 99

• While the Carlon household was enveloped in the warmth and liveliness of Talia's arrival, a very different scene played out in the cold atmosphere of Karl's mansion.
• He sat alone, as he so often did these days, staring almost unseeingly at the large framed photo hung prominently on the wall before him.
• It was a wedding picture of him and Lavinia caught in a tender embrace as newly professed husband and wife on their happiest day.