Facade of Love

Chapter 34 The Body Is Missing

“She left,” Idris said, his dark eyes still fixed on me. This man was much taller than me, and talking to him with my head tilted back made my neck hurt, so I simply avoided any further conversation.

I tore open the hydrogen peroxide and cotton balls to treat his wound, which was indeed deep. I could see the many layers under his skin split open. I could not help but gasp inwardly–that seemingly tiny life was really very sharp. If it had been a ⠀man attacking, I feared that Idris‘ hand would have been forever ruined.

He hissed in pain, perhaps because I had been too rough.

old coldly. “Bear with

I paused for a moment, looked up at him with a dark face, and the pain. I’m not Moore. I can’t give you any sweet, soft words ”

He just smiled silently at me.

I did not want to talk to him any more than necessary. I quickly treated his wound and cleaned up the trash, then listened in to the police officers nearby.

I could not help but look over when I heard voices from their direction, only to see a mutilated puppy lying in the opened trunk. It had probably been there for days and was somewhat decomposed.

scene and frowned at me. “Ms. Scott, what’s

be in a daze, looking at the

what was happening. I repeated to the police what the woman had told me earlier in the cafe, saying helplessly, “I don’t get it either. She didn’t seem to be lying at the time, which is why I asked you

police officer said to another officer, “Take her statement, and try to get in touch with the person

and she was in her forties. If not for

police the same story she told me in the cafe, but

unable to find Benett’s b*dy and unable to contact him, I called the front desk at

the news that Benett had gone on a business trip to Tully City five days ago and had not returned. I got his contact number from

him over and over again. There was so much blood… The house was covered in blood. I was so

There was indeed a pool of blood in the living room. At first, the police thought it was human blood, but after

be reached and the police could not confirm the situation for the time being, they stayed at Sophia’s house, looking for the b*dy and questioning

was strange, and I was not in a hurry to leave. Idris, on the other hand, was receiving

not help but sneer. “You

his phone but at me, asking, “When do you plan to

what’s going on here. I want to know whether