Chapter 58

The butter put his index finger to his lips, signaling her to zip it. If their conversation got overheard by a third person, both the butler and Letitia would be toast

After the butler left, Letitia couldn’t calm her nerves for the longest time.

From the butler’s spiel, the Ramirez family was the cream of the crop in AquaCity, all glitz and glam on the outside, but with lots of skeletons in the closet. Like, for instance, Phedra being Elgin’s stepmom.

But… Letitia had never heard a peep from Elgin about his birth mom. And Phedra seemed to have been in the picture for ages, with Elgin not warning up to her one bit, not changing his indifferent attitude or showing her kindness.

Could it be, Marcel’s death was tangled up in some family power play?

Letitia’s thoughts were getting clearer, she felt like she was on the verge of something big.

Just then, her phone buzzed, which caused her train of thought derailed.

“Hello?” Letitia answered, “Hey there, who’s this?”

“Letitia, it’s me.”

Walden? Letitia glanced at the phone screen, it was an unknown number.

“I’m calling from a new line because you wouldn’t pick up mine,” said Walden, “and I didn’t want Elgin to see and get the wrong idea, maybe take it out on you.”

“Let’s not keep this up. I’ll pay you back the cash tomorrow.”

“It’s not about the money, Letitia, Walden insisted, “You said before that Preston was innocent, and I took it to heart. I’ve been pulling strings left and right to re-examine the case”

Letitia’s grip on her phone tightened, “You’re investigating?”

“Yes. And I’ve got a lead.”

“What is it?” she perked up. “What did you find?”

“Can we meet in person? It’s too much to unpack over the phone,” Walden suggested, “after all… it’s big stuff.”

Letitia agreed without hesitation, “Sure, where are you?”

you the

the door. She couldn’t wait a

taxi whipped around a corner, another car passed by on

glued to the

as they headed towards Ivory Towers, “that taxi we

up from his papers, “Letitia?”

“Yes.”

dark, no trace of

going this late, taking a cab? No way she could

quaint coffee shop,

was sweating bullets, “Spill it, what

it all up just to see you…” Walden

playing me, Walden?”

leg. I wanted to see if you’d

Letitia cut him off cold, she didn’t want to give

didn’t do this, Elgin would

whole thing, and if

‘Medicines?”

which

She clenched her fists, swallowing hard, “So, who

conjecture without hard evidence,” Walden confessed, “The cops were all over it and pinned it on Preston, which goes to show the real puppet master…

can’t find any evidence,

only to be plunged back into despair. Letitia felt her heart

as a perfect crime. If

other leads, can we?” Letitia pondered, “If he knew the truth, he wouldn’t have gone after

calm, which let someone slip through the

She acknowledged she was

thing was a big deal, the truth wasn’t going to be easy to uncover

longer than I have. Take a wild guess, who do you think it

Her mind raced.

benefits the most from Marcel’s death? Who would want him gone the most? Who had the chance to swap

probing, one name stood out clear as

it,” Walden locked eyes with

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