Chapter 463

"There's no point in hiding anything now. Who came up with the idea of holding a banner and carrying your daughter's photo in front of the school? And who told you to demand a million?" Sarah pressed forward, locking eyes with Mrs. Mendes.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Mrs. Mendes said, lowering her gaze. "People like us-what else can we do but call the police? But they ruled it as a suicide. I didn't believe it, so I went to your school to demand an explanation. As for the ten million? Forget that—I think you owe me compensation."

Sarah didn't buy a word of it. "The person who gave your son chocolate is the same one who gave you the idea, isn't it?"

Mrs. Mendes's expression hardened. She clamped her mouth shut and refused to

answer.

"It doesn't matter if you won't talk. I can find out on my own." Sarah pulled out the chocolate Tommy had given her. "Do you even know what kind of chocolate this is?"

"Luxury goods have one benefit-they can be traced. You probably don't know this, but this particular chocolate is incredibly expensive. A single piece costs thousands. Each one has a handwritten serial number, meaning every piece can be traced back to its buyer."

They were among the most expensive chocolates in the world, having won countless international awards. Even in Italy, they were difficult to obtain, let alone in this

it looked like nothing more than an ordinary piece of candy. But to Sarah, it

in disbelief. What she couldn't wrap her head around wasn't just that this seemingly ordinary chocolate was worth several months of their living expenses-it was the fact that those people could casually pull something so expensive out of their pockets and give it away

in

self-mocking smile tugged at her lips. "So what? Just because of this? That doesn't prove someone put me up to

expression turned ice-cold. Stubborn

hope, when


left. She didn't go home- she went straight

take a

"Can

her to explain-he already knew that this type of chocolate had a serial

confusion. "Why do you need to trace

it happened. Before she left,

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