Chasing the Unexpected (Nyla)

Chapter 48

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In just over an hour, Mabel appeared several times on the surveillance footage. By the third time, she seemed visibly flustered. If the labels of dilute sulfuric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid had indeed. been swapped, Mabel was undoubtedly the prime suspect.

Genevieve stopped the surveillance footage and instructed her assistant to notify Mabel to come to her office.

Upon hearing that Genevieve wanted to see her, Mabel immediately became nervous, glancing involuntarily at Lucia, who was sitting diagonally across from her.

However, Lucia didn’t even look her way, appearing calm and nonchalant as if nothing was amiss. Left with no choice, Mabel reluctantly followed Genevieve’s assistant to the office.

Just as she arrived at the door, her phone vibrated–it was a message from Lucia.

Lucia: [No matter what Genevieve asks, insist that you have nothing to do with it. You don’t know anything. If you dare to drag me into this, you know the consequences.]

Mabel replied with an “Okay“, and Lucia quickly unsent the message.

Mabel put her phone away and pushed open the door to the office.

at her without much

sat down across from Genevieve, she feigned confusion. “Genevieve, what

morning, you were in and out of the lab and R&D department

subconsciously balled her hands on her knees while she answered in a calm demeanor, “I went to the lab this morning to prepare for an experiment and realized I had forgotten to record some data from yesterday, so I went

time, did you

are you suspecting me? I have no grudge

Genevieve calmly said, “I’m not suspecting you. I’m just planning to question everyone who was in the

this, Mabel breathed a sigh of relief. She had taken a gamble, banking on the absence of surveillance in that area.

calmly. “Although there’s no surveillance, Mr. Sumner’s team has arrived. They extracted several fingerprints from the labels of concentrated

can basically rule

had been too panicked at the time

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checked fingerprints,

will Mr. Sumner’s people come to collect

but don’t worry. Collecting fingerprints won’t take long. It won’t delay