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“Asher,” Jean’s eyes were clear and serious. “You need to pull yourself together, cooperate with the investigation, work with Jolene. We’ll do our best to win this case without exposing that secret!”

Asher looked into Jean’s eyes, his mind replaying everything that had happened over the past few days.”

She was right. He couldn’t just sit back and wait for the worst.

He couldn’t let his mom keep worrying about him.

The boy clenched his fingers tightly and gave a silent nod.

After leaving the police station,

Jolene offered to drive Jean home herself.

“What did you two talk about?”

Jean sat in the passenger seat while Jolene casually steered the wheel, her tone light and offhand, like she wasn’t really that curious and was just making small talk.

Jean gave a vague answer. “I told him to cooperate with you.”

Jolene let out a soft laugh. “He’s not hiding something from me, is he?”

Jolene wasn’t someone you could easily fool.

She was sharp. It was only natural she’d notice something.

words sounded like a joke, but

have already figured some of it

bluntly. “But it’s not something that should be put out in the open… Still, this case can be cracked if we focus on how Thomas set

and said

Meanwhile,

Emily and Julia on a tour of a southern

relaxing,

and Emily had been treating her like

wasn’t nearly as down as she had been

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planned to

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there was said to be beautiful, and Matheo had rented

Julia stopped to buy a cup of traditional yogurt on the roadside, Matheo and Emily

reached the dock.

her over when she saw her daughter still standing by the yogurt

the yogurt cup as she prepared

Just then-

speeding SUV suddenly came barreling down the

control, but there was something deliberate in the way

was coming

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