Not A Small-Town Girl

Chapter 33

Interrogation Room.

The room was dead silent as Danielle sat across from Jack. The faint sound of her fingers tapping rhythmically on the table echoed in the stillness. Her piercing gaze never left him, the tapping almost hypnotic.

"Jack," she began, her voice icy, "you were diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer a few months ago. Someone reached out and offered you money to stage an accident. They wanted you to crash into me, didn’t they?"

Jack’s head wobbled as he tried to focus on her. His eyes widened in shock as he registered her presence. ’She’s alive? She’s supposed to be... A visible shiver ran through him like an electric shock.

"I was drunk!" he suddenly shouted, his voice breaking into sobs. "I didn’t mean to hurt anyone! I swear it was an accident!" His eyes were clouded with confusion and pain as if all hope had left him. Tears streamed down his face, mingling with sweat, and dripping onto the ground below.

Danielle’s lips curled into a cold smile. "You knew you had no chance of surviving your cancer.

your family after

Jack screamed, his

once more before snapping her fingers sharply. Her voice was calm

vacant as

you meet him?" Danielle

me," Jack

thousand dollars to cause a car accident. I didn’t believe him at first, but the money appeared in my account. Then he sent a photo

fingers again, breaking the trance. Jack blinked, his awareness returning. He looked around,

did Miss Darling just hypnotize the suspect? Can she really interrogate

noticed his gaze and calmly said,

They had checked it before, but everything had

searched through the phone, it was clear everything had been erased. But that didn’t matter to her-deletions could be undone. After a few moves, she found a virus planted in the phone. It wasn’t Jack who deleted the files, but the mastermind behind it