95 The Secret

Keira hurriedly stopped her. “Don’t say anything. Don’t go against your professional ethics.”

Holly paused.

Then she coughed to cover up her embarrassment. “Actually, it was okay to tell you about the recording. It had nothing to do with the case. I was just…”

She fell silent before finally admitting it. “I just wanted to make things difficult for you.”

Keira didn’t know what to say.

She rubbed her brow in resignation. “Well, then tell

me.”

Holly looked embarrassed. Her face was still serious as she spoke. “The last words were: dear niece, Connor knows the secret too. Please make sure his tuition fee

is covered.”

The room was quiet for a while.

Keira frowned. Even though she had guessed that

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Finley wouldn’t leave a message about any secrets and that Connor surely knew something, she still found the message strange.

She had gone to Finley intending to pay five million to buy the secret.

If she learned the secret from Finley, why would she still have to cover Connor’s tuition?

Or was it that Finley had never planned to sell her the

secret?

Keira shook her head, grateful for her arrangement.

She didn’t accuse Connor of being the murderer right after the crime, otherwise, she might never be able to pry the truth out of him.

Now, she would for Connor to crack under the

criticism!

However, Holly was a bit worried. “Keira, don’t overdo it. If he throws away his phone, you’ll lose the most crucial piece of evidence, and you’ll never turn this

case around!”

At this, Keira frowned.

After the incident, she was taken to the police station

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right away and didn’t get a chance to tell Samuel what needed to be done. She wondered if Connor had

changed his phone…

“No, he won’t.”

Connor threw away his original phone and switched to an identical one. I’ve

first one.”

eyes, and she

Lewis had heard countless compliments, but the straightforward

smiled slightly. “You flatter me, Miss

suddenly said, “You two are married, yet you call each other ‘Mr. Horton’ and ‘Miss Olsen’. I first thought you weren’t acquainted, but you actually seem to understand each other so well. Is this your form of displaying affection?”

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all of a sudden.

Lewis and seemed to

when others addressed her as Miss Olsen, but Lewis’s deep voice was like a feather lightly teasing her heart, bringing

didn’t notice Lewis’s

Connor had no idea what was

him.

hospital, he

the twenty-thousand cash he

took six thousand and snidely commented, “I knew you seemed way too confident about being able to pay back the loan. So, someone was ready to

understand what they meant, but

the ground. “Hell no! I don’t want

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own father! Do you have no

was stunned. “What do you mean?”

handed Connor his

the video was now spreading on the internet. Everyone

take her money. This twenty thousand is what I borrowed

you say

explanation and let out a

them picked up the cash left on the floor by the rich kid. “Don’t throw it away. You can buy us

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rich kid sneered. “Fine,

intending to join them, someone stopped

was taken aback. “Aren’t we going to have dinner?”

come with us, we’ll probably get interrupted by reporters. You’d better

leaving Connor alone in

room.

gloomy look in

give it much thought. After all, having a father like that, he was used to the

pulled out his phone and called

Isla’s gentle voice

Connor remained silent.

saw the comments

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Keira to

with a

it. If you can’t bear it, everything will be revealed. You can’t go to

Connor’s expression softened.

like that was indeed painful. His

that shone into his world when they

do well in his studies. She told him not to mind the looks other

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