Chapter 17

“Forget it. You’re not fit to have it anyway.” Michael pushed my arm aside and turned to leave.

I ignored him. He was just acting up as usual. I walked into my bedroom and started packing what I needed for going abroad.

There were only two months left. Time would pass by in a blink of an eye. I’d be free before I even

knew it.

Back then, I’d been so gullible to believe everything would be over once I left the country in two months. Never had it occurred to me that Michael would be the reason I died.

As fate would have it, Michael was the one who saved my life, and he also turned out to be the reason. it ended.

In the end, we were even.

The rumbling of thunder brought me back to the present. I gave myself a hard slap, but I felt no pain.

It was only then that I came to terms with the fact that I was already dead. I no longer had to live in pain and suffering anymore.

A police car came and took Steve away, who was out cold. The ambulance had also taken Benson away.

“Mr. Ford, do you have any news of your sister?” Zion had exited the police car to ask Michael.

Michael frowned. “She can’t hide for much longer.”

shown to Steve. It was an ID

brows were furrowed as though contemplating something. Perhaps he remembers me. He’d seen me before, after

at the Nocturnal two months ago?” As he was a police officer, Zion had an excellent memory

paused for a moment like he was recalling the

is considered pretty prestigious in Huma. Your sister had no need

seemed displeased by the question. “Officer Landon, Stephanie isn’t that kind of

that to defend my reputation. He was simply doing it for

I must have gotten

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photo before Michael, saying, “This photo is clearer than the other photos you provided before. I’ll take this for now, and you’ll be informed once

got into his

sexual assault case at the Nocturnal two months ago. See if it is somehow related

are you suspecting that Stephanie’s

the assailant frequented the Nocturnal. They were all women who led extravagant yet messy private lives.” Zion

silently beside him. He couldn’t hear what I said anyway. I could only pray that he would uncover the

Landon!” Outside the abandoned orphanage, one of his colleagues hopped out of a

relationship, and I really found something! They aren’t siblings related by blood.

to Michael. In fact, they

expected things to be so complicated

Bailey. He insisted on breaking off

that the police were really efficient in their investigation. They managed to

been standing beside Zion as I listened to the conversation. Yet, I wasn’t very much affected by

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