My Accidental Husband is a Billionaire

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.”

interjected. He said calmly, “After the incident, Connor threw away his original phone and switched to an identical one. I’ve already

first one.”

and she smiled,

countless compliments, but the straightforward praise from Keira

flatter me, Miss

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

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room fell quiet all

away from Lewis and seemed to be

as Miss Olsen, but Lewis’s deep voice was like a feather lightly

didn’t notice Lewis’s ears turning red.

idea what was

him.

leaving the hospital, he returned to his college campus.

his roommates the twenty-thousand cash he borrowed.

you seemed way too confident about being able to pay back the loan. So, someone was ready to pick up the tab

they meant, but another rich second-generation student

“Hell no! I don’t want your

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out your own father! Do you have no shame spending it?”

was stunned. “What

handed Connor his phone. “Check

the phone and saw the footage of Samuel giving him money, and the video was now spreading on the internet. Everyone

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

roommates didn’t believe him. “If you say so, we’ll

thought they believed his explanation and let out a

left on the floor by the rich kid. “Don’t throw it away. You can buy us dinner with it!”

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sneered. “Fine, let’s go.”

to the door, intending to join them, someone stopped him.

was taken aback. “Aren’t we going to

rather not have you. If you come with us, we’ll

roommates went out, leaving Connor alone in the

room.

had a gloomy look in his eyes.

lips, trying not to give it much thought. After all, having

his phone

the call was connected, Isla’s gentle voice came across. “What’s wrong?”

Connor remained silent.

the comments online. Actually, it’s a

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to confess sooner, and you’ll be safe.”

with a noncommittal,

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

Connor’s expression softened.

like that was indeed painful. His neighbors

Isla was different. She was like a beam of light that shone into his world when they were in junior

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