“What’s wrong?”
Farren Austin took her hand and sat down, “Are you aggravated?”
Amelia Bright shook her head, deliberated for a moment, and asked, “How’s the aftermath of Grandpa’s death?”
When she asked this question, she obviously felt the hand holding her own tighten a few points, and Farren Austin’s face was also a bit tight, “Forensic identification still needs time, and the remains need to be parked in the identification office for a few days.”
“What about the funeral? Do we have to wait until the case is clear?”
“No, at the latest three days you can bring grandfather out, the funeral Adjutant Xun has also been preparing things, do not need too grand, simple is good.”
Farren Austin’s voice was dull and depressing to listen to.
Amelia Bright followed hard, “If I could have arrived a little earlier, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.”
“I don’t blame you.”
Farren Austin took a deep breath and said slowly, “The forensics results show that Grandpa fell to his death from the second floor, and it wasn’t the fruit knife that killed him.”
“Someone pushed Grandpa down from the second floor?”
“There were signs of an altercation.”
Farren Austin frowned, “Initial inference is that it was someone he knew.”
All the evidence pointed to Amelia Bright, who looked complicated
“Farren, I was the first witness at the crime scene, my grandfather was still breathing and conscious when I arrived, and he said something to me.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Farren Austin’s eyes suddenly tightened, “What?”
“I didn’t dare tell the people at the police station because I wasn’t sure if I could trust them.”
“What did Grandpa say?”
Amelia Bright clenched her fingers, and after a moment of deliberation, she said in a deep voice, “Grandpa said someone was trying to harm you, and said there was an undercover agent, and that the person who … harmed him was Calla Moon.”
‘Calla Moon’ two words fell, the bedroom was instantly quiet, quiet as if even each other’s breathing could be heard clearly.
There was something odd about Farren Austin’s gaze, something that made her inexplicably uncomfortable to look at.
“You don’t believe me? It’s really what Grandpa said.”
“Amelia, I know you don’t like Calla Moon, but things like that shouldn’t be joked about.”
“I’m not joking.”
Farren Austin’s face was cold, “Calla Moon has been with me all day today, do you think I should take your word for it?”
At that, Amelia Bright blushed, “How could …”
Farren Austin stood up, his form blocking the fluorescent lights overhead, casting a shadow, his tone unmistakably disappointed
“Amelia, I didn’t know your opinion of Calla Moon was big enough to fabricate such things to smear her, and even if you wanted to clear yourself of suspicion, you shouldn’t have used such methods.”
“It’s really what Grandpa said.”
“That’s enough.”
Farren Austin’s face was tense, and there were a few annoyances in his eyes, and he seemed to have suppressed his anger only by trying to hold back his anger.
“You get some rest early.”
After saying this, he took his jacket and walked towards the door.
“Farren …”
Amelia Bright chased after him to the bedroom door and saw him descending the stairs without looking back, and felt nothing but cold hands and feet.
Farren Austin didn’t believe her, and had good reason not to, but even so, she felt as lost as if she had fallen into an abyss, and the feeling of powerlessness that she had managed to restrain came back like a tidal wave.
After a long time, she closed the door and sat back down at her desk, her mind in a tangle.
Why had Calla Moon been with Farren Austin all day, and if that was true, then why had Grandpa told her that Calla Moon had killed him? One of these two people is always lying.
There was no reason for Grandpa to lie to her, and if he hadn’t really seen Calla Moon, he couldn’t have slandered his own apprentice.
But if Grandpa wasn’t lying, then it was Farren Austin who was lying, and he was harboring Calla Moon.
At the thought of this possibility, all her internal organs suddenly twisted up, and she pinched her fingers, forcing herself to forget this thought for a while with the pain in her palm.
Calm down, now is not the time to think about it.
She tried hard to go through the whole thing in her head, trying to catch the suspicions, starting with what the old man had said when he came to see her at home the day before the accident.
Before the accident, the old man must have met with Calla Moon to talk about her and Farren Austin, and from what the old man said to himself yesterday, he was completely disapproving of Calla Moon entering the Austin family home, and perhaps it was for this reason that Calla Moon had a motive to kill.
Or maybe …
When the engine sounded outside, she suddenly had a jolt and suddenly thought of what the old man had said about Calla Moon’s background. It seemed that it was because of her background that the Austin family had never considered her marriage to Farren Austin.
What exactly is her origin?
Before going to bed, I got a call from Emily Guan, and there was a lot of commotion on the other end, as if the crew had just gotten off work.
“What’s going on? I just heard that the Austin family has died?”
“Who did you hear that from?”
The Austin family is in the limelight, and the Austin family’s death was deliberately suppressed from the news.
“I’m recording a TV show, the host is a second generation, and the Austin family know, I heard them talking about it, so I rushed to call you, what happened?”
Amelia Bright frowned and told the story briefly.
“The Austin family doesn’t have a servant? A living person was killed and you didn’t find out until you were there?”
“After Farren and I moved out, the Austin family cut a lot of servants, there are a few people left, but also basically do not live at home, Halyn Austin hospitalized and have to take care of Chambers, outsiders they are not at ease.”
The Austin family’s old house is far from the city, the average three-day grocery shopping, have to Zhou housekeeper drove with Aunt Zhou, that morning, the family is really a maid are not.
“So what do you mean now? You’re still the biggest suspect?”
“Pretty much.”
“That’s crazy!” Emily Guan cursed on the other end.
“No, I’ll get Bohdi Olson. You can’t just wait there by yourself. Who knows if the Austin family will go crazy and send you to jail for another three or five years.”
Hanging up the phone, the time was late, Amelia Bright covered up but could not sleep.
Thinking about what the old man said at the end of his life, his heart felt like a boulder that could not be resolved, as if all the accidents during this period were strung by an invisible thread, leading to the abyss.
It seemed that all the accidents started with Calla Moon’s return.
She became restless.
The next day, Amelia Bright was woken up by Bick.
“What’s wrong?”
Bick stood by the bed, frowning with a complicated face.
“Change your clothes, the police are coming.”
Downstairs, came Hounslow City East Branch Criminal Investigation Division of the police, navy blue police uniform in the living room in particular attention, a total of three people came, the leader of the police looked about forty years old, full of frost, look very serious, has been in the living room to survey the various furnishings.
Seeing Amelia Bright coming downstairs, the lead detective took the initiative to extend his hand.
” Mrs. Austin, hello, I am the person in charge of this case, my surname is Chen, I came to see you today because I want to redo some understanding of what happened yesterday.”
Amelia Bright’s heart was inexplicably apprehensive.
“Have a seat.”