Isla was startled by the commotion and Juno hastily came out of the kitchen.

Adrian turned around and sized up the people who had entered the house.

***

“Ah? You have a visitor today, Isla? Is he your boy toy?

“There’s a saying that widows are always up to no good. Are you playing with your boy toy and cheating on my eldest brother?”

The burly man with a full beard was thirty-six years old, but he looked older than he was—like a man over forty.

As soon as he entered the house, Isla quickly let go of Adrian’s hand, got to her feet, and said, “What are you doing here, Joshua? You’re not welcome here. Please leave.”

The burly man’s name was Joshua Byrd and he was Juno’s second uncle. The woman next to him was Juno’s second aunt and her name was Heather Duran.

Isla loathed them. She had received close to a million dollars in death gratuity from Wyvern Peak as compensation. Joshua and Heather had their eyes on the money so they worked with a swindler to cheat her of the money saying