Chapter 73

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Chapter 73

Pearl apologized. "I'm so

sorry I let this happen. I should have kept an eye on the shoes until the courier service picked them up."

Josephine shook her head slowly and flashed Pearl a tight smile. "This isn't your fault. It's not like we expected Nadine to pull a stunt like this. I didn't even see it coming

She took the glass of water nonetheless. She needed the warm water to purge the chill from her bones and stop her shaking e and

About tenmimites later, several police officers showed up outside the shoe section. After a brief round of questions, they went through the security footage found that there was enough evidence to spare them from investigating the matter.

Now that they had legitimate reasons to make an arrest, the cops turned to Josephine and asked, "Do you know where the suspect is?"

Josephine frowned. "I can only give you her number. I don't know anything else,"

called it on

a deep, male voice.

one of them asked, "Hello, is

after a low ham of

has committed a theft. Please have her turn herself in at the precinct to aid us with our investigation. If not, we will be forced to arrest her."

I'm not," the cop bit out coldly. "Where

the precinct you work at.

my call or refuse to cooperate with our

cop's phone rang. This time, it was Nadine who spoke on the other line. "Hello, I was informed that you called regarding a theft that I allegedly committed. May I know

her mouth shut, though her eyes burned with rage heard the cop say to Nadine, "We will

was as if she wasn't afraid of getting punished at all. "By the way, you might want to tell the person who reported me that she can't

a snort, she hung

cops grimaced at Nadine's shameless comment. "We've

crime, and

without Thompson. She left Ethan by the precinct entrance

was about to face.

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