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.

police officer looked puzzled after checking the scene and frowned at me.

wife. She seemed to be in a daze, looking at the dead dog in the trunk and muttering to herself, “He

figure out 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

“Take her statement, and try to get in touch

her, I learned that this woman’s name was Sophia Sanchez and she was in

in the cafe, but when the police asked her where the b*dy was, she kept repeating that it

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

a business trip to Tully City five days ago and had not returned. I got his contact number from the front desk, but the call did not go

Sophia kept muttering, “I killed him, stabbed him over and over again. There was so much blood… The house was covered in blood.

There was indeed a pool of blood in the living room. At first, the

could not confirm the situation for the time being, they stayed at Sophia’s

was not in a hurry to leave. Idris, on the other hand, was

could not help but

phone but at me, asking, “When do you

leave. I’m also curious about what’s going on