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 the spot. They

quickly, though the person who answered had a deep, male

not look amused as one of them asked,

ham of affirmation. "Who

introduced himself and said gravely, "We have enough evidence to believe that Ms. Sommers 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." "Theft?" Zayn

bit

and the precinct you

to return my call or refuse to cooperate with our investigation, we

line. "Hello, I was informed that you called regarding

hand to silence her. She had no choice but to keep her mouth shut, though her eyes burned

just been confronted by the police. It 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 touch me. I'm well

a snort, she

at Nadine's shameless comment.

her crime, and she isn't even breaking

the end, Josephine went to the police precinct without Thompson. She left Ethan by the precinct entrance and insisted on going alone, knowing

was about to face.

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