In the Lap of Luxury by Unsweetened Chestnuts

There was a plum blossom tree in the police station's courtyard. It filled the air with a sweet fragrance.

Benjamin stood under the tree, glancing at Caleb, who was staring at him from the side. "I don't know Brodie, and I didn't orchestrate the incident." "What about Ryan Madden?"

Grace held his gaze as she questioned, "It just happened to be the Eastwood property's construction site, and the contractor is Ryan. You know him.

"Besides, everyone knows that Jessica is the investor. What's your relationship with her?"

Brodie had been right. Benjamin had indeed met Ryan once.

When Benjamin had gone to see Jessica the other day, he hadn't left immediately. Instead, he had parked his car in the distance and watched Ryan sneak out suspiciously.

At that time, Ryan had been extremely alarmed when Benjamin stopped him. "You ..."

Benjamin had opened a pack of cigarettes and handed him two, warning, "I'm watching you. Don't do something you shouldn't."

Brodie had witnessed their

unexpectedly outwitted. It seemed that Brodie had had his eye on him

misunderstanding that Benjamin couldn't easily

he responded, "The Hawkins and Quine families are influential and respectable in Pamore. I do have some personal ties with Jessica; I won't deny

you guarantee that Jessica isn't

ultimately, he couldn't provide an answer. "You

you can't even be honest with

is going on between the two of you?" Despite her questioning tone, Benjamin

Xander hadn't come to my rescue in time, I would have died because

and promised, "I'll find out the truth

have met you in the

felt the warmth slip away from his palm while an unprecedented panic crept up on him. Had Grace discovered something? Just then,

When she spotted him, she halted in her tracks, and a trace of panic

up the steps, brushing off the fallen plum blossoms on her shoulder. "I told you not to call me by

that he still remembered this conversation from so long