The Barrister's Love in Town

Chapter 94 The Listening Device

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Before Yacob could get out of the car to open the door for Elias, the latter already pushed the door open and walked toward the forest.

What is Amanda doing here? It’s getting dark.

Elias walked into the forest with questions in his mind. He began to look around for Amanda.

“Mr. Winters!” Yacob tried to follow Elias. He didn’t dare to let Elias out of his sight even for a

moment.

However, Elias coldly ordered, “Stay where you are. Don’t follow me.”

Yacob did not answer and did as was told. He didn’t try to move after Elias made his words clear.

In the forest, Amanda had arrived at the crash site. The police had cleaned up the site, so she couldn’t find anything useful around other than the marks the car left when it flipped over.

She knew something was wrong when she saw the crash site at first sight. Why did Elias drive into the forest? How did the car flip over? It more or less has to do with the steering wheel, which caused the driver to lose control over the direction. Was there something wrong with the car? Knowing Elias, his luxury cars must go through regular car maintenance. Such a fault is unlikely to happen unless somebody is behind

She remembered the call Grace had in the hospital. The other details also suggested that the accident was planned.

I wish Elias was here. At least I can ask him what happened during the accident.

A man’s deep voice came from behind without a warning. “What are you doing?”

The unexpected voice startled her. Amanda turned around in the direction of the voice with. widened eyes. She sighed in relief and patted her chest to soothe her heartbeat when she found Elias standing there.

“You nearly scared me to death! Don’t come up behind me without making a sound!”

Elias took a few steps forward and stopped before her. “I wasn’t trying to hide the sound of my footsteps when I walked here. It’s just that you’re preoccupied with your thoughts.”

His honesty left her speechless as she indeed wasn’t paying attention to her surroundings earlier.

“What are you doing here?” Elias repeated.

the area. “I came here to check on the site. By the way, I have a question for you. What exactly happened that day? Why did you drive the car

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made

did you

There’s nothing so far, but it gives me a strange feeling. After all, I know you’re a skillful driver. Knowing you, you wouldn’t have driven off the

solid evidence, she kept

steering wheel that day, Elias mused out loud. When the accident happened, he tried to grab the steering wheel, only to find he didn’t have control over it. Therefore, his car ran straight into the forest. He couldn’t remember what happened

There’s one more thing. You studied computer science at university, right? I remember that you invented a mini listening

market?”

as paper, he was developing four years ago came to her mind. She dared to call it the pinnacle of listening devices. However, she

by her question. I didn’t expect her to remember it after all

a long time to complete, so Grandpa advised against

hear that. After all, she was somehow

unnoticed by him. He prompted, “Are you interested in it? Even though it’s not in the market, I have

Can

you going to use the device on?” Elias squinted his eyes unhappily. Not only was his curiosity bugging him, he felt jealousy rooted in

person that is worth Amanda’s attention?

always needs to gather evidence. I need to collect the evidence for a case.

convince Elias entirely, he decided to

need my help to install it, though. Where are you going to install it? At home

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phone?”

a phone, obviously.”

to install the device on Grace’s phone, so she could

have to come home with me to take it,” Elias explained in a

Amanda gave him a curt answer. The reason for her urge to find out the truth. remained unknown to herself.

to the manor with Elias.

study room. Elias took out the micro listening device before reaching out his palm to her. “Give me the phone.”

She immediately gave him

began. “Now the device is bound to your phone. You can stick it to the other phone. When the owner gets a call on their phone, you’ll receive a notification on

he was a charismatic person. Moreover, he was wealthy and talented. She