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Chapter 10

Autor: The Moon Returns
Three months later, the gallery of Courtroom One at the city's superior court was packed to capacity. The judge's gavel came down with a heavy thud, and the entire courtroom fell silent.

I floated in midair, silently watching Callum stand in the defendant's dock. In a mere 90 days, he looked as though he had aged two decades.

Cecilia, who was only a short distance away from him, looked equally haggard.

She no longer looked anything like the glamorous heiress of the Lovelace family. Her hair
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  • Cellar of Death: My Family's Regret   Chapter 10

    Three months later, the gallery of Courtroom One at the city's superior court was packed to capacity. The judge's gavel came down with a heavy thud, and the entire courtroom fell silent. I floated in midair, silently watching Callum stand in the defendant's dock. In a mere 90 days, he looked as though he had aged two decades.Cecilia, who was only a short distance away from him, looked equally haggard. She no longer looked anything like the glamorous heiress of the Lovelace family. Her hair was dry and brittle, and her complexion was sallow. She cried throughout the entire trial. Her legs were so weak that two female court officers had to support her on either side. "Rise!" The presiding judge's commanding voice echoed through the courtroom. Everyone stood at attention. "The court concludes that the defendant, Callum Lovelace, violated the law by illegally depriving another person of her personal freedom. When the victim's life was in danger, he acted on his own assumptions

  • Cellar of Death: My Family's Regret   Chapter 9

    The harsh fluorescent lights shone down on Callum's pallid face in the interrogation room of the police department's Criminal Investigation Division. Handcuffed and despondent, he sat in the interrogation chair, staring blankly at the tabletop. The officer in charge of the interrogation walked in with a stack of case files. Instead of questioning Callum right away, he booted up the laptop on the table and turned the screen toward Callum. "Callum, these are the data records recovered from your phone's backend." The officer slapped a printout down on the table. "According to the forensic examination, after the deceased was locked inside the room, her extreme fear triggered heart failure, and it only took two or three minutes for her heart to stop. "During those three minutes, your phone received back-to-back emergency alerts from her smartwatch indicating that she was in critical condition."Callum shuddered, staring at that sheet of paper."Not only did you ignore them, bu

  • Cellar of Death: My Family's Regret   Chapter 8

    "Place that pillbox into an evidence bag!" the lead officer barked sternly. The two officers beside him immediately stepped forward and seized Cecilia, who was slumped on the floor, from both sides. The cold handcuffs clicked shut around her wrists. "Cecilia Lovelace, you are suspected of hiding the deceased's emergency medication, depriving her of the opportunity to save her own life. We're taking you into custody immediately!"Cecilia trembled uncontrollably as if she had been struck by lightning. She thrashed wildly, her manicured nails clawing wildly at the officers' uniforms. "Unhand me! I didn't kill anyone!"She whipped her head around and cried out to Callum as though he were her last lifeline. "Save me, Callum! Tell the cops that you were the one who locked her in the basement. You were the one who told me not to worry about her! You're the one who abandoned your own sister!"Callum's wailing came to a sudden halt. Like a piece of rusted machinery, his head turned sti

  • Cellar of Death: My Family's Regret   Chapter 7

    Callum was dumbstruck. "That's impossible!" He shook his head frantically. "She never went anywhere without that metal pillbox. She would carry that pillbox even if she skipped a meal!"Cecilia, who had been standing in the corner, suddenly flinched. Instinctively, she hid the limited-edition Hermès bag in her hand behind her back. Her high heels clicked against the floor as she hurriedly backed away. Like a startled beast, Callum whipped his head around and locked his eyes on her. "Cecilia," he rasped before closing in on her. "Where's Caroline's medication?"Cecilia blanched, shaking her head frantically. "Callum… I don't know… I didn't take Caroline's medication…""This afternoon, you went into her room, didn't you?" He stopped in front of her, his icy gaze sending shivers down her spine. "You told me she was packing her bags to leave the house and threatened me. What on earth did you take from her?"Callum abruptly charged at her, snatching the Hermès bag that Cecilia was fie

  • Cellar of Death: My Family's Regret   Chapter 6

    The moment the white sheet was pulled back, a dead silence settled over the morgue. Callum stared at my face, his pupils trembling violently. He didn't yell or accuse me of playing dead as he had moments ago. His lips quivered, and his legs abruptly gave out. With a heavy thud, both his knees slammed onto the cold concrete floor. "Caroline…" His entire body trembled uncontrollably as he crawled toward the stainless-steel gurney on his hands and knees. He reached out, wanting to touch my icy cheek. The forensic pathologist beside him hastily seized his wrist and held him in place. "Please don't tamper with the body, Mr. Lovelace."Callum was forced to look up, tears running down his face like water bursting through a breached dam. He parted his lips, but he couldn't force out a single coherent sentence. I floated in midair, watching him silently. "At long last, you believe that I didn't lie to you, Callum. I'm truly dead. No matter how much you cry now, I will never wake

  • Cellar of Death: My Family's Regret   Chapter 5

    Callum stood at the basement door for a full five minutes. He took a deep breath, turned around, and headed back to the dining room on the first floor. The cake still sat untouched on the dining table. Cecilia sat pale-faced in her chair, her hands clasped tightly together. "Callum… Carol…""She's fine!" Callum strode over and picked up the cake knife from the table. "She's sharp as a tack; she knew damn well that it's your big day, so she deliberately pulled this stunt to rain on our parade!" He brought the knife down on the cake. It veered off course, smashing the white-swan icing on top. "She has such precise control over her own breathing that she even fooled the paramedics. She's truly perfected the art of playing the victim!"Edmund stood beside him with a dust bag in his hands. His face was ghastly pale, and his voice trembled uncontrollably. "Mr. Lovelace…" Callum set the plate down with a hard clatter before Cecilia. "What is it? Spit it out!"Edmund raised the dust b

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