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.”

the ground, which was the photo Michael had shown to Steve. It was an ID photo I had taken in

His brows were furrowed as though contemplating something. Perhaps he

ago?” As he was a police officer, Zion had an excellent

moment like he was recalling the incident. “Yes.

is considered pretty prestigious in Huma. Your sister had no need to sell her body, did

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

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

I must have gotten the wrong

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photos you provided before. I’ll take this for now, and you’ll be informed once we have

his

men, “Go look into the sexual assault case at the Nocturnal two months ago. See if it

you suspecting that

of the assailant frequented the Nocturnal. They were all women who led

only pray that he would uncover the truth and make the

orphanage, one of his colleagues hopped out of

Carlson and Michael Ford’s relationship, and I really

biologically related to Michael. In fact, they had a marriage arrangement between them!”

frowned. He clearly never expected things to be so complicated between

breaking off the marriage arrangement with

efficient in their investigation. They managed to find out so much in such

I listened to the conversation. Yet, I wasn’t very much affected by their discovery.

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