The Queen's Back

Chapter 172

The first thing Mona did was open WhatsApp, where she found Emily's chat history with Jeremy. She casually scrolled through their messages.

It seemed that Emily had a habit of clearing her messages. There were only three days' worth of chat history with Jeremy and they had not even spoken on one of the days.

On the first day, Emily brought up divorce and told Jereiny to leave the Clem family, Jeremy kept apologizing, insisting that his situation with Beatrice was just a mistake.

Emily gave Jeremy a day to think it over. Either they would get divorced, or she would tell Bernard about his affair. If it came to that. Jeremy would not just lose his chance at any share of the family's assets. He would probably have a hard time even finding a decent job in Nathontown.

The last day was also the day Emily passed away in a car accident. Their conversation was brief. Jeremy and Emily had agreed to meet at a cafe to sign the divorce papers. It was on her way there that her brakes failed, leading to the accident.

Going through the messages and photos, Mona only came across evidence of Jeremy's affair. There was nothing more. Beatrice's name did not even appear in Emily's WhatsApp contacts.

There were also some other things recorded in the notes app.

This evidence only proves that Jeremy was having an affair, and Emily wanted a divorce which Jeremy opposed. Considering how Emily's brakes failed on the way to sign the divorce papers, it was reasonable to suspect that Jeremy may have tampered with them in advance.

But all of this was just Mona's speculation. There was no actual evidence.

"After all this time, there's still no useful evidence. All it shows is that my mom knew about Jeremy's affair before she died," Mona sighed and said helplessly.

It had been so many years since the accident. It was almost impossible to uncover any

evidence.

'Don't worry. We've sent the coffee grounds from your grandfather's study for analysis. We'll have the results by tomorrow Maxwell said, trying to comfort her.

that day. No one knew his habit of keeping his used coffee grounds, that was how they ended up with a

done bad things to be put behind bars, Mona responded. She could only hope for good news the

go unpunished, and it

shook the Clem family. The truth about Bernard's poisoning

results confirmed that the coffee grounds were laced with the same toxin found in Bernard's system. When Bernard found out, he

to gain control of the Clem Group was all

They issued a citywide alert with a reward for information on his whereabouts, closed all highway exits, and began checking each suspicious

one side was his grandfather, on the other, his

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He also did not expect someone so cowardly like Jeremy would dare to kill for personal gain. Upon hearing of Jeremy's escape, he was conflicted. A part of him wanted Jeremy to have a little more time on the run while the other part wanted the police

found out that Bernard made a police report, she worried that Jeremy's actions might affect her. Even though she had

Bernard. She vowed, 'Grandpa, please believe me. I had

seeing Barbara's tear-streaked, pitiful face somehow

suspected that Jeremy was the one who poisoned him.

good would anger do? If I let it hurt

you. Just get up," Bernard said to

this, she would

wiped the tears from her

have the slightest suspicion of her, Barbara finally felt completely at ease. All that mattered was she was not implicated by

she still needed Bernard's protection, the Clem family's support, and her status as the heiress of the

left for the office, only Maxwell, Mona, Bernard, and Jane