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

first one.”

flickered in Keira’s eyes, and she smiled,

countless compliments, but the straightforward praise from Keira made his cheeks slightly flushed.

“You flatter

said, “You two are married, yet you call each other ‘Mr. Horton’ and ‘Miss Olsen’. I first thought you weren’t acquainted, but

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room fell quiet all of a

looked away from Lewis and seemed to

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

notice Lewis’s ears turning

no idea what

him.

leaving the hospital, he returned to his college campus.

happily repaid his roommates the twenty-thousand cash he

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

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

no!

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You earned it by selling out your own father! Do you have

was stunned. “What do you mean?”

know?” The guy handed Connor his phone. “Check

giving him money, and the video was now spreading on the internet. Everyone was slamming him for being an ungrateful

true. I didn’t take her money. This twenty thousand is what I borrowed from you guys.

“If you say so, we’ll take your

his explanation and let

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

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rich kid sneered. “Fine,

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

we going to have

If you come with us, we’ll probably get interrupted by reporters.

out, leaving Connor

room.

look in

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

pulled out his phone

was connected, Isla’s gentle voice came across.

Connor remained silent.

comments online. Actually, it’s

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can force Keira to confess sooner, and you’ll

with a

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

Connor’s expression softened.

a father like that was indeed painful. His neighbors and classmates

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

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

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