“Is there anybody else with them?”

The sales associate shook her head. “Just the mother and daughter. I have yet to see anybody else with them.”

Charlene’s pupils constricted abruptly, and she clutched the sales associate’s arm. “Mother and daughter? What do you mean by mother and daughter?”

She was really agitated. The sales associate looked anxious because she had no idea what she had done to trigger Charlene’s anger. She answered cautiously, “You asked about those two. They are mother and daughter… The first thing the young woman with the disfigured face said when she entered the shop was that she’s shopping for clothes for her mother. What else can they be if not mother and daughter…”

Charlene was extremely shocked. No one knew better than her that Ophelia was already dead. She had died a year ago.

Hence, Deirdre could not have a mother.

She pressed the sales associate with a gloomy expression by saying, “Are you sure? Are you sure that the young woman acknowledged the othe