The Abandoned Wife

The trio stayed quiet.

Cayden and Colby stood at one side, looking at Lucian examining the lab counter with different thoughts running through their minds. Colby was nervous to the extent of almost forgetting to breathe.

Given a choice, he wouldn't be willing to heed Lucian's order to restore the scene during the day of the experiment because that would easily expose his wrongdoing.

Still, if Colby had refused to follow Lucian's instruction, that would be no different from declaring his guilt to the latter.

After mulling his options over, he had no choice but to restore the arrangement of the medicines on the lab table, albeit with a slight alternation. He could only hope Lucian wouldn't notice anything suspicious. Lucian was oblivious to Colby's train of thought. He was focused on inspecting the medicines on the lab table, meticulously checking every item.

While doing that, he recalled every detail he saw on the surveillance footage that day.

Lucian clearly remembered Roxanne had touched all of the bottles on the table.

All of a sudden, he fixated his gaze on a transparent bottle placed in the corner for a few seconds before turning around to speak to Colby. "Bring me to the surveillance room again." Colby's pupils constricted as uneasiness filled him.

staring at the bottle for a prolonged time. Why

hanging by his sides, trembled uncontrollably

Colby could only tuck his hands into his white coat's pockets, feign calmness, and

on his heels and guided them to the surveillance

footage from that day

he expected, when Roxanne was doing the experiment, she accidentally knocked over the transparent bottle

was not the same size as the one Colby had

that, the quantities of the medicine inside

gaze onto the Colby onscreen, who

years working at the research institute, would fail to distinguish between

did it

anxiousness and asked

I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you

facial expression relaxed imperceptibly. "Okay. I'll do

left the surveillance