Chapter 17

“Forget it. You’re not fit to have it anyway.” Michael pushed my arm aside and turned to leave.

I ignored him. He was just acting up as usual. I walked into my bedroom and started packing what I needed for going abroad.

There were only two months left. Time would pass by in a blink of an eye. I’d be free before I even

knew it.

Back then, I’d been so gullible to believe everything would be over once I left the country in two months. Never had it occurred to me that Michael would be the reason I died.

As fate would have it, Michael was the one who saved my life, and he also turned out to be the reason. it ended.

In the end, we were even.

The rumbling of thunder brought me back to the present. I gave myself a hard slap, but I felt no pain.

It was only then that I came to terms with the fact that I was already dead. I no longer had to live in pain and suffering anymore.

A police car came and took Steve away, who was out cold. The ambulance had also taken Benson away.

“Mr. Ford, do you have any news of your sister?” Zion had exited the police car to ask Michael.

Michael frowned. “She can’t hide for much longer.”

a photo off the ground, which was the photo Michael had shown to Steve. It was an ID photo I had taken in preparation for my documents to

as though contemplating something. Perhaps he remembers me. He’d seen me before,

As he was a police officer, Zion had

was recalling the incident. “Yes. Something of the sort

head and looked at him. “The Ford family is considered pretty prestigious in Huma. Your sister had no need to sell her

question. “Officer Landon, Stephanie isn’t that kind of person.”

me. Michael didn’t say that to defend my

apologies. I must have

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photo before Michael, saying, “This photo is clearer than the other photos you provided before. I’ll take this for

got into his car and

his men, “Go look into the sexual assault case at the Nocturnal two months

you suspecting that Stephanie’s been targeted way earlier?”

the assailant frequented the Nocturnal. They were all women who led

beside him. He couldn’t hear what I said anyway. I could only pray that he would uncover the truth and make the

of his colleagues hopped

look into Stephanie Carlson and Michael Ford’s relationship, and I really found something! They aren’t siblings related by

adopted Stephanie, so she isn’t biologically related to Michael.

never expected things to be so complicated

insisted on breaking off the

really efficient in their investigation. They managed to find out so much

I listened to the conversation. Yet, I wasn’t

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