LOGINMrs. Sanders’s voice trembled. “But we’re being watched from every direction right now. They…”“Short-sighted fool! You still have the nerve to ask me that? When I told you to keep your mouth shut, why didn’t you know how to keep it shut? Now look what you’ve done. We might die at any moment and not even know when it’s coming!”Sarah frowned when she heard that.Just how powerful were the people behind this, to make Shane so terrified?“They’re threatening me. They’re threatening me!”Out of nowhere, Shane said those words while sitting on the couch.“What are they threatening you with?”A familiar voice sounded.Sarah frowned slightly. She had thought Melvin was at the company. She had not expected him to be here.Shane said painfully, “This is all because of you. Why did you help that bitch investigate me? I’m your father! Do you even know who your real family is?”Melvin did not answer him. Instead, he asked urgently, “What do you mean by that? Who exactly threatened you?”
Sure enough, the male officer did not even bother with polite formalities this time. He simply tossed the organized file in front of Nick.Nick did not move. Forcing down the panic rising in his chest, he looked at the officer.“What is this supposed to mean?”The male officer sat down and lifted his chin.“Take a look. Since you don’t want to talk about intentional assault, let’s talk about the rape charge instead.”Nick’s heart seemed to stop.In disbelief, he lowered his head and looked at the file, neither thick nor thin. Under the table, his hands had already begun trembling uncontrollably.Seeing his face turn dark, the male officer added another push.“Lucy Chancer is determined to press charges against you for rape. She has video evidence too. With witnesses and physical evidence, once this goes to court, it will be ironclad. No matter how hard you think, you won’t be able to talk your way out of it.”How could Nick not understand that?Besides, after all this time, h
“I need you to do me a favor,” Sarah said, looking at Zachary.Zachary immediately asked, “What favor?”“I want you to talk to Melvin for me. If I say anything, it might only make him feel even more guilty. I’m hoping you can have a proper man-to-man conversation with him and help him stop overthinking things.”“I understand. Don’t worry,” Zachary agreed at once.After working together so well in business, Zachary already saw Melvin as a friend, not just as Sarah’s cousin.Even if Sarah had not asked, he would have done it.“Then I’ll leave it to you. I want to be alone for a while,” Sarah said tiredly.Zachary did not refuse. He left her room with the medical kit.This time, warm sunlight filled the room, and her heart was no longer completely shrouded in darkness.Outside the window, two sparrows perched on a branch and chirped for a long time. Gradually, Sarah’s eyelids grew heavier and heavier.At the police station.Inside the interrogation room, the three people had be
“Sarah, what did you find out? Was it your uncle Shane?” Zachary asked with a frown.At the sound of that name, Sarah finally reacted. She looked at Zachary and swallowed twice.“He wanted to kill my dad.”Zachary was shocked.He had met Shane Sanders before. He had also seen the way Shane protected Sarah. From those eyes, he truly could not have imagined such cruelty.This man was meticulous, and he had hidden himself far too well.Zachary crouched down in front of Sarah, took her slightly trembling hand, and said softly, “You found proof?”At that moment, the emotions Sarah had kept tightly wound for so long seemed to finally find a place to release.She told Zachary everything Melvin had found over the past few days. She did not care about holding it all in anymore. She could not pour too much negativity out in front of Melvin right now, so Zachary became the person she leaned on, if only for this moment.“Do you need me to do anything?” Zachary did not speak rashly.He kn
“What happened? Why are you back from the old residence?” Only then did Zachary realize how terrible Melvin’s mood was.Before Melvin could answer, Zachary asked tensely, “Did something happen to Sarah?”At the sound of Sarah’s name, Melvin’s hand paused around his glass. Then he continued drinking as if nothing had happened.Zachary noticed something was wrong with him and quickly stepped forward. “What exactly happened? What happened to Sarah?”The wound on her hand was already healing, so it should not have been because of the old injury. That meant something else must have happened recently, something he did not know about.“She’s fine. She just wants to be alone for a while.” Melvin leaned his head back with his eyes closed, as if doing so could make him feel a little better.But Zachary could not take those words in at all. In his memory, Sarah rarely asked to be left alone.“What exactly happened during this time? How is she really doing?”Zachary could not stop worrying
Before long, the tax authorities and market regulators also came to investigate. During the inspections, the shopping center had to cooperate and suspend operations once again.When the assistant reported everything that had happened at the shopping center over the past few days to Zachary one by one, Zachary’s face was livid. His fingers gripped the file tightly as he flipped through it in displeasure.“Mr. Reynolds, this is everything that has happened over the past few days. The specific details and investigation results are all included in the file,” the assistant reported nervously.These tactics were far too obvious. The other side did not seem to be hiding their intentions at all.“Have we found out who is behind this?” Zachary asked, his face tense.Standing to the side, the assistant swallowed and replied in a low voice, “Not yet. But it’s obvious they’re only trying to give us a warning.”The assistant thought carefully about the people the company might have offended i







