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.”

his original phone and switched

first one.”

in Keira’s eyes, and she smiled,

heard countless compliments, but the straightforward

smiled slightly. “You flatter me,

one to the other and 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

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fell quiet all of a sudden.

and

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

notice Lewis’s ears

idea what was

him.

the hospital, he returned to his college

repaid his roommates the twenty-thousand cash he

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

understand what they meant, but another rich second-generation student threw

no! I don’t want your filthy

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

stunned. “What do you mean?”

want to know?” The guy handed Connor his phone. “Check this out.”

the video was now spreading on the internet. Everyone was slamming him for being

is what I borrowed from you

say so, we’ll take your word

believed his explanation and let out a sigh of relief.

on the floor by the rich

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rich kid sneered. “Fine, let’s go.”

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

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

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

leaving

room.

gloomy look

much thought. After all, having a father like that, he was

his phone

Isla’s gentle voice came across.

Connor remained silent.

“I saw the comments online.

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Keira to confess sooner, and you’ll be

a noncommittal,

will be revealed. You can’t go to jail. If you

Connor’s expression softened.

like that was indeed painful. His neighbors and classmates

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

bring him breakfast and tutor him when he didn’t do well in his studies. She told him not to mind the looks