บท 779: Riches to rag- Part 2

Sophie's eyes held tears when she looked at her mother, "Didn't you say that the minister gave us this place for our own use? Why is someone else coming to claim it?! Why aren't you doing anything mother?" she questioned with bewildered eyes. 

"He must have lied. Every person is involved with Calhoun. Do you see why I told you cannot go to the castle? This is what he wants, he wants us to suffer." 

"But I didn't do anything!" whined Sophie. The humiliation she felt right now with people who were much lower than her in position, staring at her as if she were beneath them annoyed her. 

Rosamund pulled Sophie to the other side of the market to sit where there was less crowd so that she could tend to her daughter's lip. "I will try to fix this, Sophie," she assured the young vampiress. "I will make this wrong right."