Joe was caught in the middle right now.

Cordelia caught a glimpse of the closet out of the corner of her eye. There was a small gap opened, and Helen was still in there. She hid a small smile.

She had planned to let Helen out, but it did not seem that it was necessary now.

Cordelia dialed 911 and was going to press the ‘Call’ button when Joe shouted, “Wait!”

It went pin-drop silent.

Joe took two slow steps and looked at Cordelia and Zephyr while everyone else watched them.

“I think that… it’s best not to alarm the police with this. After all, it involves the Tanners and Hamertons’ reputation.”

“You’re wrong, sir!” Zephyr’s gaze was cold. “It’s exactly because it involves our reputation that we shouldn’t simply gloss this over!”

shouting to call the police earlier, and you are

to let

police. What’s there for him to call the shots over?” Zephyr’s gaze was stern. “Could it be that you feel guilty, thus going back and forth on your words and

“Zephyr, you—”

did not expect him to

immediately cried hard. As tears fell on her cheeks, she swiped them here and there. This way, the fingerprints would

Nelly sobbed. “I wanted to celebrate Mrs. Hamerton’s birthday, but

The Tanners can’t take this sort of

you! I’ll try not to appear before you next time, okay? But if

dear goodness, I can’t watch

came from

over in surprise to see Helen getting out

her while Helen held her hand with a smile. She then approached Nelly and scrutinized

right?” Helen squinted thoughtfully. “Hmm… You don’t have a good

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