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.”

calmly, “After the incident, Connor threw away his original phone and switched

first one.”

Keira’s eyes, and she

company, Lewis had heard countless compliments, but the straightforward praise from

slightly. “You flatter me, Miss Olsen.”

to the other and suddenly said, “You two are married, yet you call each other ‘Mr. Horton’ and ‘Miss Olsen’. I first thought

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fell quiet all of a sudden.

Lewis and seemed

as Miss Olsen, but Lewis’s deep voice was

notice Lewis’s ears turning

Connor had no idea what was coming for

him.

leaving the hospital, he returned to his

repaid his roommates the twenty-thousand

took six thousand and snidely commented, “I knew you seemed way too confident about being able to pay back the

they meant, but another rich second-generation student threw the

ground. “Hell no! I don’t want

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own father! Do you have no

stunned. “What do you

guy handed Connor his phone.

video was now spreading on the internet. Everyone was

thousand is what I borrowed from you guys. It was only an emergency fund she gave me because the police had

him. “If you say so, we’ll take your

and let out

by the rich kid. “Don’t throw it away. You can buy us dinner with

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kid sneered.

door, intending to join them, someone stopped him. “Where are you going?”

“Aren’t we going to have dinner?”

have you. If you come with us, we’ll probably get

leaving Connor alone

room.

had a gloomy look in his

much thought. After all, having a father like that, he was used to the strange looks from

pulled out his phone and called

Isla’s gentle voice came across.

Connor remained silent.

saw the comments online. Actually, it’s a

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force Keira to confess

a noncommittal,

to live with it. If you can’t bear it, everything will be revealed. You can’t go to jail. If you do, what will become

Connor’s expression softened.

was indeed painful. His neighbors and classmates all

beam of light that shone into his world when they

would bring him breakfast and tutor him when he didn’t do well in his studies. She

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