Sweet Submission: Reclaiming Her Love

Chapter 60 Dead Ends

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Jason acknowledged Elliot’s announcement by accepting the cigarette Elliot handed him, but he didn’t light it. He twirled it between his fingers and then murmured, “Corynn doesn’t like the smell of smoke.”

Upon hearing this, Elliot extinguished his cigarette without hesitation. Tossing the cigarette butt, he leaned back in the driver’s seat and said, “It was the parents. They received a hundred thousand dollars from a stranger in exchange for inciting Tyree to commit murder.”

Initially, Tyree’s parents were reluctant, but whoever bribed them convinced them that their son, being intellectually disabled, wouldn’t face serious consequences–just a stint in a mental hospital at most.

But what Tyree’s parents didn’t foresee was their son’s sudden disappearance. They returned to the hospital the day after the incident and searched for him everywhere, but Tyree was nowhere to be found.

When Kaden found them, they initially denied everything, but after seeing how badly beaten and bruised Tyree was, they confessed.

But the trail ended there.

Whoever hired them to do this had only communicated with them online, never in person.

The money was left at a designated location, so they didn’t even know if it was a man or a woman.

more cunning than he had anticipated.

someone trying to delete the footage in the hospital,” Elliot continued, though judging from the tone of his voice, it was clear that this person lead them to a dead end as

check the account that contacted

belonged to

his car. “Any

opened his eyes and watched

to the hospital, observing

go inside. Jason caught sight of Elliot

it,

was heavily guarded all

having narrowly escaped death twice, Corynn still managed to joke with Shirley in the hopes

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Shirley’s eyes lit up. She quickly stood up, eager to leave. “Perfect

stay, as he had something to discuss with Corynn in private.

Shirley left, Corynn’s smile faded. “So, how did it

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