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.

 

afraid that she

Joseph saw her calling the police,

knife. Once he found one, he went straight for

did to Joseph could have been considered self-defense, Yannie’s parents had

as she did not dare

Yannie’s parents demanded that Connor should be punished as

send Connor abroad. Yet, the police had already issued an

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

felt something was off after reading the information. Why would Connor kill Joseph when he was staying with his

not figure it out, so she went to

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

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 had agreed. Frankly speaking, Connor had always

she started bombarding him with more

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

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

I’m looking for a

can help you with

“Thank you so much.”

tell you anything, though,” Amber said. She then paused for a while before continuing, “You

Yasmin, I’ll answer a hundred more of your questions if you like,” Jonathan

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