For a very long time, Jacob felt lost.
He felt that everything that happened today wasn’t true.
Especially, the death of Katherine.
When he recovered from that trance, it was already dark outside.
Jacob closed his red eyes forcibly and asked in a hoarse voice, “Where is she?”
Lucia stayed by his side, watching Jacob as he became restless and panic-stricken for Katherine. She felt jealous and angry that she ordered people to chop up Katherine’s body and feed it to dogs.
“I had my sister cremated. Now, she has been buried in the cemetery…” She was vicious at heart, but her voice was soft and sad. “Burial brings peace to the deceased. I believe my sister also wants to sleep in a quiet place as soon as possible…”
Jacob’s red eyes suddenly turned cold, and he stared at Lucia grimly. “What did you do? You dared have her cremated? Lucia, did I give you permission to do this?!”
Lucia was taken aback and put on a pitiful expression. “I’m sorry, I just… I shouldn’t have made decisions myself without letting you know. I’m sorry! I was wrong, I am sorry. Don’t be angry with me, okay?”
As she spoke, tears dripped down. She hung her head, appearing pitiful and sad.
Jacob stared at her deeply but felt nothing in his heart.
A few seconds later, Jacob suddenly asked in a hoarse voice, “Have you ever abused Katherine when she was with you as a servant? Lucia, tell me the truth.”
Lucia looked innocent. “Jake, why do you suspect me like this? How could I abuse my sister? I already owe her a kidney. I am very grateful and I wish I could repay her, so how could I torture her?”
Jacob’s face was expressionless. “Really?”
Lucia nodded. “Of course, it is true. Jake, did my sister tell you something before she died? Did she frame me because she wasn’t able to kill me?”
Jacob retracted his gaze and replied with an indifferent tone. “No.”
Lucia lowered her eyelashes, hiding the fact that she knew the truth.
Jacob stopped talking and walked out.
He was going to see Katherine. Even if there was only a tombstone and loess left, he still wanted to see her.
Lucia arranged the tombstone in the corner of the cemetery, but Jacob was not satisfied with it. He spent a lot of money and bought the area at the top of the cemetery with the best daylight as a resting place for Katherine.
Once everything was arranged, Jacob stared at the cold tombstone. His flustered thoughts finally calmed down.
After his sanity returned bit by bit, Jacob took out his phone and began to have people investigate the source of Katherine’s wounds.
He needed to know who tortured Katherine behind his back.
And also…
“Investigate what Theo has been doing in the past few days…”
Even if he saw Katherine lay silently on the operating bed with his own eyes and even personally arranged the location of the cemetery for her, he still couldn’t believe that she was gone forever.
Even if it was all his imagination and he was getting his hopes up, he was determined to find out.
The things that Theo did recently were quickly reported to Jacob.
He bought the most recent flight abroad and sold a villa and a small company that was just starting out. He planned to settle abroad…
Jacob’s subordinates reported all of Theo’s daily activities in detail and finally added carefully, “Also, we found that when Theo bought the plane tickets, he bought two. The other one was bought in his mother’s name, but his mother passed away a long time ago…”
Jacob’s heart beat fiercely. A bold assumption suddenly popped into his head.
Could it be… that woman wasn’t dead?
This would also explain why Lucia was so anxious to cremate Katherine and bury her in just one day.
Because that corpse was not Katherine’s at all.
The real Katherine had been rescued by Theo a long time ago.
All this was a conspiracy.
Jacob’s heartbeat sped up, and he realized that he might have been deceived, but he didn’t feel angry. On the contrary, he started feeling excited and happy.
His assumptions were true and his hopes came true.
Katherine was not dead.