Chapter 10 Shedding Tears

 

Amber nodded and followed the police officer to the archive room.

 

The police officer had found every information about Connor in the system. Connor Smith was born in 1986, and he had a little sister named Yasmin. Both their parents died in a car accident. Connor was only nine years old, and his sister was five when the accident happened.

Moreover, the other driver involved in the accident had also died on the spot. Because of that, Connor and Yasmin did not receive much compensation. Later, they were both adopted by their uncle, a powerful city official in Horington.

The truth was, the siblings had been very obedient while they lived at their uncle’s place. Unfortunately, an incident ten years ago changed Connor’s life forever.

 

That day, Connor and Yasmin were at home with their uncle’s wife, Yannie Hemmings. She was a beautiful woman at the age of thirty-six.

 

Yannie had a younger brother named Joseph, who was a junkie. That night, Joseph came to their house and asked Yannie for money. After countless times of doing so, Yannie became disappointed by his repetitive behavior. Hence, she rejected him.

However, Joseph was an unreasonable man. Upon realizing he was not getting any money, he begged Yannie and smashed his head until it bled, crying like a baby as he did so.

 

Yannie merely ignored him.

Eventually, Joseph became enraged by her attitude and choked her, forcing her to give him money. He even brought a knife with him. It was clear that he had come prepared.

Connor was only eighteen then. As he tried to pull Joseph away from the petrified Yannie, Joseph stabbed Connor’s hand with his knife.

 

that she called the

the police, he instantly tried to harm her

to look for a knife. Once

Joseph could have been considered self-defense, Yannie’s

nothing Yannie could have said, as she did not dare to go against her parent’s

demanded that Connor should be

and her husband had no other choice but to send Connor abroad. Yet, the

was not as objective as the truth. Only the time, date, Connor’s relationship with Yannie, and the fact that Joseph had asked

was off after reading the information. Why would Connor kill Joseph when he was staying

out, so she went to look

from Jonathan, Amber became infuriated. “Yannie’s not any

brother. You can’t sever the love you have for your family. Not to mention Joseph had later threatened to harm Yasmin, so Yannie had thought Connor mainly did it to protect his sister,” Jonathan explained. He paused for a moment and added, “While Connor was preparing to flee, he had asked his uncle to promise him he would take good care of Yasmin, and his uncle

while Jonathan spoke, but as soon as he was finished, she started bombarding him with more questions.

whenever he brought him up. I wasn’t interested in knowing his uncle’s name back then. And then later, Connor died on the spot. All I know is that Yasmin eventually came back to Garland Street, which

Since Connor killed Yannie’s brother, I’m sure Yasmin wouldn’t find it

why it feels like I’m looking for a needle in a haystack searching

help you with

“Thank you so much.”

Amber said. She then paused

hundred more of your questions if you like,”

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