Under the heiress facade

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Chapter 163

It was 2:00 pm in Nathan’s office at the police station.

“Ms. Youngworth, I have good news and bad news for you.”

Nathan took a deep drag from his cigarette before snuffing the butt against the ashtray.

Hera waved the smoke may, a look of disgust apprent on her face. Before she could sprok up, Nathan’s voice cut her off.

“The good news is, we finally found Isabella and her mother”

His words elicited a frown from Hecaimmediately. Il Nathan chose to start with the good news instead of the bad news, that could only mean that the bad news carried more weight in this case.

“What’s the bad news?” she asked

“We found their corpses.” As Nathan spoke, he pulled out a case folder from his drawer and passed it to Hera

Hera lowered her gaze slightly, her long and thick eyelashes fanning out from her eyelids, as she gazed at the brown paper envelope.

Even though she was already mentally prepared for the bad news after receiving Nathan’s call this morning, she was still saddened by the news.

Hera was only acquainted with Isabella briefly, so she didn’t care about Isabella. In fact, kabella was the daughter of the driver who had killed Daphne back then.

was stilla human being To think that she’d die just

go missing just because she had mentioned Robin back then? Did that lead to her

week ago, by the time the bodies were fished out of the water, they were already severely decomposed.

doctor had deduced that the victims were dead for over a dozen days, so the authorities weren’t

the victims‘ identities. After I received the news, traveled to Southburrow right away. After nirring tests on the bodies‘ DNA, I was able to determine the victims as bubella

of his coffee mug before coming. “The case of death is the sudden influx of liquid into the wetime‘ aways, which caused asphyxiation to

destruction

not to mention a

scene.

camera installed near the road outside the dam was down during those three days. The authorities aren’t able to deduce if murder, suicide, or an accident is on the table here.

in charge of missing people’s cons. Now that they found the missing victim’s body, shouldn’t you be the one launching a thorough investigation before wrapping it up?

her head to look at

since isabella’s case was lodged

of Southberrow closed the case so haphazardly could only meething–something fishy was going on.

why I invited you over to my

his chair and moved to stand by the window. He cracked the window open slightly before lighting another

could be built was because she was a few days away from reaching her 18th birthday. That meant she was a minor during her time of disappearance, thus

Nathan took queenie back to the station for questioning, seeing as she was the biggest suspect then. But Queenie was able to prove her innocence, was released after that

no choice but to lead his team on a search for Isabella.

couldn’t find any other clues that suggested the possibility of

labeled as a case meant for the criminal investigation department. This meant Nathan couldn’t use the force’s resources to aid his investigation regarding the case.

off duty to

issued by Southburrow’s police department three days ago that he found out the truth. But Isabella and her mother’s deaths resulted in a new case

want to escalate