Chapter 14: Invader (6)
Episode 14. Invader (6)
A gentleman in a top hat smiled faintly. When I looked into his grey eyes, I opened my mouth in surprise.
“Liam,”
“Shh.”
Liam Moore pressed a finger to his lips and sat to my left as if he had always been part of our group. To my right sat a man in his fifties, with strands of grey in his black hair.
His thick eyebrows and sunken cheekbones gave him a tough appearance. The grey hair, which seemed to form a pattern, made me suspect that his black hair might be dyed. If so, he was a person meticulous about self-care with a keen sense of aesthetics.
His index and middle fingers were calloused, and there was a slight ink stain on his sleeve, suggesting he was a writer, though 19th-century writers rarely lived so luxuriously. From head to toe, he was adorned in the finest attire, and his movements exuded elegance.
A single large ring adorned his wrinkled fingers, and a wedding ring graced his left ring finger. So, he had a wife.
This was the man who had accompanied Liam Moore. He smiled kindly at me.