Chapter 4

He stood against the light, so I couldn't make out his face. All I caught was a calm, low voice. "Mr. Carter, it's awfully late for games, don't you think?"

Richard came rushing out after me, but the second he saw who it was, his expression shifted. He forced a smile and said, "Mr. Grant, what brings you here? It's just Caroline being childish. She threw a fit and tried to run away from home."

The man he called Mr. Grant was Andrew Grant, the head of the Grant family, one of the most powerful families in the city and…