Pushing Vance to the Brink

At Pinecliff Mansion, Cordelia had just returned home and was surprised to see a middle-aged man in the yard. It was Vance. She found him somehow older in his casual clothes.

Vance seemed to have aged overnight as if he'd grown ten years older compared to when she first saw him at the funeral. Cordelia wondered why he would be here. Cordelia watched Vance cautiously, frowning. "Mr. Thorne, what b