Chapter 605

“There’s a murder! Help!”

Amidst her grogginess, Mia heard a clamor of noises around her. She struggled to open her eyes, but her vision swam. She couldn’t see anything clearly. Pain hummed in her head as she was overwhelmed by

dizziness.

She sat up and leaned against the railing behind her. Her hand paused midair. What was she doing

outside?

She vividly remembered she was in Laura’s bedroom when she was attacked. She fainted after the attacker hit her head. Why was she outside after she regained consciousness?

Locating the noises around her, she chanced a glance at the weathered figure lying in the puddle of blood at the end of the staircase. The color drained from her face as she shrieked, “Grandma Laura!”

What happened? How did Laura fall from the stairs?

Mia clenched her jaw as she hauled herself up, but her effort was in vain. She crawled her way toward the staircase. She glanced over at Laura, who was drenched in blood, and screamed, “Somebody! Please

help!”

in the lead. His expression darkened. once he saw Laura lying unconscious on the

the ambulance! Hurry!”

How did Mom fall from the stairs?

blind?”

She didn’t want us to be present. We heard some quarreling, and Mrs. Barrett Senior was already on the

that Mia pushed Mom

not me! I did not push

steady herself as she gripped the railing. Her vision

throwing up.

in a strained voice, “I went to meet Grandma Laura, but I was attacked in her bedroom. I blacked out,

looked like someone had punched the living daylights out of him. “Get the bodyguards to seal off the residence. No one

hauled onto an emergency stretcher and brought away. The sight of the blood puddle was

jarring.

happen after she woke up. Who was trying to frame her? The audacity of

“Timothy, I think you can’t leave Mia out as a suspect. She’s the only one who’s with Grandma when it happened, after all. The maids also heard them quarreling before Grandma fell from the stairs. Grandma couldn’t have fallen off the

up!” he snapped. A glint of

toward her when they saw how pale she was. She was standing alone at the

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