It took her a long while to find her voice. "Miss Sutton, thank you for telling me all this."
The tear tracks on Cecilia Sutton's face had dried. She looked at Annelise Valentine, her gaze candid.
"Miss Valentine, I know this truth might upset you, but I also have my own selfish reasons for telling you. I... could I possibly ask you for a favor?"
Annelise Valentine looked at her and sighed inwardly.
'This was her first time meeting Cecilia Sutton. Yet this stranger, whom she had only just met, had told her the entire truth.'
'On this point alone, Cecilia Sutton was far better than Kian Miller and that whole crowd of hypocritical young masters.'
She didn't agree immediately, but her tone had softened. "Go on. What do you want my help with?"
"Miss Valentine, please help me leave Port Calico."
