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.

before he collapsed that day. No one knew his habit of keeping his

behind bars, Mona responded. She could only hope for good news the

it

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

with the same toxin found in Bernard's system. When Bernard found out,

time, the story about Jeremy poisoning Bernard to gain control of the Clem Group

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

hurt by all of this was Albert. On one side was his grandfather, on the other, his own father.

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kill for personal gain. Upon hearing of Jeremy's escape, he

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

of shock and dropped to her knees in front of Bernard. She vowed, 'Grandpa, please believe me. I had no idea he poisoned you. Don't blame me for this,

Barbara's tear-streaked, pitiful face somehow eased most of his

was the one who poisoned him. He just did

do? If I let it hurt my belaht,

do with you. Just get up," Bernard said to Barbara. He then helped her to her

would not have risked her own health for the

slowly stood up and wiped the tears

that Bernard truly did not have the slightest suspicion of her, Barbara finally felt completely at ease. All that mattered was she was not implicated by Jeremy's

had not won Maxwell's heart, she still needed Bernard's protection, the Clem family's support, and her status as

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