I'm Sorry My Love Novel

Chapter 480

With Elijah and Daniel around, it didn't take them long to complete the entire procedure. Since they had already found a place to bury Leanna's mother, her body was taken there right away after all the examinations were done. When they left, Leanna gave Louis a call and sent him the address of the place where their mother was buried. Then, she leaned against the car window and set her eyes outside quietly.

"Are you alright, Leanna?" Zoe asked softly.

Leanna responded with a chuckle. "Don't worry about me. I'm fine. In fact, I've gotten used to this."

Zoe let out a sigh and patted Leanna's shoulder, not knowing what to say. A few moments later, the car finally came to a stop. At the same time, Leanna pulled herself together and took a deep breath. Just when she extended her arm to reach out for the door, someone opened it from the outside. When she looked up, she saw a familiar face and asked, "What brings you here?"

Aidan bent over and held Leanna's hand that was hanging in the air. "How can I not be here? This is important."

Leanna pursed her lips and entered the car. Not long after she spoke to Daniel over the phone, she sent Aidan a message and told him that she was on her way to the lab. However, since he hadn't replied, she thought he was in the middle of his meeting, only to be surprised when she saw him there.

Upon getting out of the car, she saw Mr. Jackson standing not far away in a preoccupied manner with a walking stick in his hand. Hmm, I guess Daniel must have told him about that, Leanna thought to herself after seeing no one else around her.

Knowing what Leanna had in her mind, Aidan merely wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "Let's go."

A few moments later, it started drizzling as Leanna stood in front of a headstone with her head kept down. At the same time, Aidan was standing next to her with an umbrella over their heads. Soon, Louis arrived, but instead of walking up to them, he chose to watch from afar in silence, his emotionless expression even more unfathomable with the chilly mist.

Although many guests came to pay their respects, neither of them said a single word throughout the burial. It was only until it was over that Mr. Jackson sighed and said, "After all those years, Sandra can now finally rest in peace."

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as it seems," Aidan responded with a deep voice.

"What do you mean?" Mr. Jackson looked at the man with a pair of furrowed brows.

"What happened after the explosion back then? Why didn't she ask for help throughout the time she was staying there? Why did she marry Jethro? Also, why did her husband kill her later? None of us here has answers to any of the questions I just mentioned."

Mr. Jackson knitted his eyebrows even more while holding his walking stick after hearing Aidan, yet he didn't know what to say. Aidan then added, "Well, I suppose the only person who has all the answers is Jethro."

"But we've tried everything we could. Even if he agrees to talk, I doubt anything that comes out of his mouth is true," Daniel said.

"That's because he knows he is still too useful to be killed," Aidan replied.

"Can you make him talk, then?"

"No."

While the crowd was speechless, Leanna pulled Aidan's sleeve as a gesture to tell him to stop talking.

Aidan then held the lady's hand and said, "My point is to remind all of us here that the situation is not as simple as it seems. Because of that, none of us here should let our guard down."

Meanwhile, Elijah finally said something after a few moments of silence. "Leroy is to blame for all the chaos that happened. Although he's gone into hiding, I believe it's only a matter of time before we find him. So, Mr. Pearson, I wonder…"

"Well, it wouldn't be much of a problem if Leroy was the one behind all this."

"Are you saying Leroy had someone else to help him back then?" Mr. Jackson asked.

"I was just venturing a guess. After all, you guys are the people who know him well, yet you have not managed to catch him even though your men have been dispatched to all the places he might have shown up. You even instructed them to spy on him, so there's no way Leroy could have escaped unless someone has been helping him."

"We've thought about that as well, but we didn't find anything useful after investigating every single person who was suspected to be related to him," Mr. Jackson said.

"He knew you guys were hunting for him, so he wouldn't show up at any of the places you could think of."

Upon hearing that, Daniel asked, "So, are you saying the person who's helping Leroy doesn't appear to be related to him? Instead, whoever has been helping him might have been coerced to do so, and this could be related to the incident that happened 20 years ago. Is that what you're saying?"

"Possibly." Without any concrete evidence, Aidan's deduction remained unproven. Thus, everyone else went silent once again.

Soon, Leanna looked at Aidan and said, "There is a place I'd like to go. Come with me, would you?"

"Sure." Aidan looked back at her and gave an affirmative reply.

Leanna then politely bowed to Mr. Jackson and said goodbye to him, whereupon she walked up to Louis and Zoe. "Let's go, guys."

While Louis nodded and took one last glance at the headstone before leaving, Zoe, who turned around to walk away, happened to meet Daniel's eyes. In that instant, she somehow knitted her eyebrows unnaturally and quickly made her way out of there. When the few of them found themselves outside the building, Leanna suddenly stopped in her tracks. "Zoe, there is a place I need to go to. Would you please take Louis back to where he needs to be?"

"Wait, aren't you going to meet Jethro now?" Louis asked right after Zoe replied affirmatively.

"I know he is probably not going to tell me the truth, but I'm still going to give it a shot, considering how serious things have become."