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.

frowned. The mastermind was more

around the drop–off point but found nothing. However, I did catch 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

check the account that contacted Tyree’s

responded, closing his eyes. “It belonged to someone

but paused before entering his car. “Any movement

Elliot opened his eyes and watched Jason drive off.

to the hospital, observing the

his car, but he didn’t go inside. Jason caught sight of Elliot standing by the hospital entrance

darkened. He hated to admit it, but Elliot was a

recent incidents, Corynn was heavily guarded all day to prevent any

Corynn still managed to joke with Shirley in the hopes of cheering her

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Jason entered the ward, Shirley’s eyes lit up. She quickly stood up, eager to leave. “Perfect timing,

to stay,

Corynn’s smile faded. “So, how did it go?”

went cold. We know that Tyree’s parents were bribed, but we couldn’t trace