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.”

threw away his original phone and switched to

first one.”

spark flickered in Keira’s eyes, and she smiled, “Impressive, Mr. Horton.”

had heard countless compliments, but the straightforward praise from Keira made his

“You flatter me, Miss Olsen.”

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

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quiet all

looked away from Lewis and seemed to

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

Lewis’s ears turning red.

idea what was coming for

him.

the hospital, he returned to

happily repaid his roommates the twenty-thousand cash he

confident about being able to pay back the loan. So, someone was

meant, but

“Hell no! I don’t want your filthy

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

was stunned. “What do you

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

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

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

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

his explanation and let out a

of them picked up the cash left on the floor by the rich kid. “Don’t throw it away.

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sneered. “Fine, let’s

to join them, someone stopped him. “Where are

we going to have dinner?”

no, we would rather not have you. If you come with us, we’ll probably get interrupted by reporters. You’d better stay in

went out, leaving Connor alone

room.

look in his eyes.

lips, trying not to give it much thought. After all, having a father like that, he was

pulled out his phone

connected, Isla’s gentle

Connor remained silent.

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Keira to confess

with a noncommittal,

you have to live with it. If you can’t bear it, everything will be revealed.

Connor’s expression softened.

painful. His neighbors and classmates all looked down

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

bring 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