At the critical moment, Quintin suddenly held Bella and turned square, blocked the deadly knife for her. It took just a moment for Bella to face the mugger from the back to face him directly. She was horrified to let out a miserable scream, only to feel the man holding her more and more rigid, falling down gradually …
“Quintin, Quintin!!!”
Bella trembled and shook Quintin’s body when she woodenly saw her hands full of blood. She cried out hysterically, “Quintin, you hold on, I’ll call an ambulance right away!”
The criminal stabbing the wrong person with his dagger fled. Bella only cared about Quintin’s injuries and didn’t care about the criminal. As she felt grief and panic, she saw a familiar man flashed and disappeared in the vast night.
Outside the hospital’s emergency room, the first aid of the white prompt light was shining dazzlingly. Bella was pale, shivering in the corner, motionless. The Stocks almost all arrived, and everyone looked grieved and anxious when they comforted and talked to each other about the incident, but no one noticed her. She wanted to go over to them to apologize but didn’t have the courage. The man had no close relationship with her, but he was lying in the emergency room because of her.
She turned her back and wiped the tears falling from the corners of her eyes while praying silently in her heart, “Quintin, you must be safe. You will be fine, Quintin. You must get well …”.
The moment the dagger was plunged into his body, his fate was tied to hers and to Kevin’s.
After two long hours of waiting, the light of the emergency room finally went out, and the doctor in a coat came out. The Stocks rushed forward to ask, “Doctor, how’s my son?”
“How is the injury? Is there a serious problem?”
“Is my nephew awake now?”
…
The doctor faced the anxious family, smiled, and reassured, “Don’t worry, the patient is out of danger. He should be able to wake up tomorrow morning.”
Bella stood at the end of the crowd, heard this, and finally relieved. She heaved a sigh of relief and had never been so grateful to God for saving Quintin’s life.
She didn’t want to live in guilt for the rest of her life, and she didn’t want anyone to get hurt because of her.
“Miss, may I ask what is your relationship with my son?”
A graceful and noble woman slowly walked towards her, and her eyes were very sharp.
Bella gripped her hands tightly at a loss for answering her question. If she said they were strangers to each other, Mrs. Stock would certainly ask her why her son saved her life since that.
She pondered for a moment and replied with a shaky voice, “We’re very good friends.”
“Are you so good that he’s willing to help you even to the point of sacrificing himself ?”
She was speechless and looked up at the woman in front of her, whose aura was too strong making her overwhelmed.
“I’m sorry. It’s all my fault.”
“I’m standing in front of you right now not for hearing your apology, but just to figure out your relationship with my son. How can I answer you when you are so evasive? Do I have to reply that it’s fine? My son has just saved from death and it would be unrealistic of me to say it’s okay, wouldn’t it?”
Bella took a deep breath, glad that she didn’t accept Quintin’s proposal. Quintin was a good man without doubt, but his mother was too sharp and shrewd, who was simply too much for her to handle.
“Your son likes me, but …”
“But you don’t like him, right?”
She nodded helplessly, “It’s not that I don’t like him, but I have a man in my heart.”
“Then please keep some distance from him. A helpless and chaotic relationship is the most hurtful and selfish.”
“I understand. Don’t worry. We’ve made it clear.”
Bella nodded slightly, giving her a look of certainty, as several uniformed police officers walked in, “May I ask if you are Miss Finger?”
She nodded, “Yes.”
“Please come with us to the police station. We need to know a few things about this assault.”
“Fine.”
She bowed to Quintin’s mother and followed the police out of the hospital.
Sitting in the police station’s interrogation room, Bella told them the whole story of what happened, and the police asked her, “Did you not see the mugger’s face at all?”
“He was in disguise, and I was in a panic of extreme shock, so I didn’t get a good look.”
“What about the back? Have you seen the back? Can you tell if it’s a man or a woman?”
Bella recalled that she saw a glimpse of a hurriedly departing person when she was in a panic, and suddenly frowned and suggested, “Can I see the dagger at the murder scene?”
The cop was startled and nodded, “Yes, but we’re taking fingerprints, so we’ll have to wait a bit.”
After about ten minutes of waiting, another policeman came in with a plastic bag and presented the dagger in the plastic bag in front of Bella, “Why do you want to see this?” The policeman was puzzled.
Bella’s face suddenly fell at the sight of the dagger, and she answered with conviction, “I think I can already determine who the murderer is.”
“Do you know him?”
The two policemen looked at each other, both quite surprised.
“Yes, if I’m not mistaken, the murderer is Richard, a native of T-city, and he bears grudges with me, and last night’s assassination was aimed at me.”
She was too familiar with this dagger, which was Richard’s personal belongings, and Bella had used it to threaten to kill herself.
“Richard?”
A policeman repeated the name, “Can you give us a rough description of his face?”
Soon, Bella heard the order to search for Richard all over the city, and she, as the only witness, was temporarily left in the police station to cooperate with the investigation.
At 5:45 a. m., Richard was arrested at the F city airport and didn’t show an overreaction for it. He also confessed to the facts of the crime, but when he was asked about the motive, he was silent.
Bella heard that Richard has been brought to justice, so she came to the holding room. When she looked at him for a moment, she was slightly startled that the middle-aged man in front of her wasn’t high-spirited, simply like a prisoner just out of the big jail, with hollow eyes, haggard look, beard, disheveled clothes …
She felt incredulous. When she wanted to go forward and ask him why he wanted to do this to her, Richard was the first to explode, suddenly like an angry beast, fiercely and angrily roaring, “You shameless bitch. How come I couldn’t kill you … You killed my son. You must die miserably … You’re wanton and fickle. I curse you for not being happy in your life. Whoever loves you dies one by one, and you’re left alone, with no one to turn to, and finally fie with hatred …! ”
Richard seemed to be crazy, letting out creepy, mournful laughter. Bella’s face was instantly pale while she was a bit wobbly, one hand against the wall, trembling, asking, “What did you say … Did I kill your son? What’s wrong with Braxton?!”
“Don’t mention my son’s name. You don’t deserve to mention his name. You wicked woman, sooner or later you’ll get what’s coming to you!”
The police sternly shouted at him, “Quiet!
Bella’s legs went limp and she fell to the ground. Was Braxton dead? She pressed her panicked heart and told herself that he won’t. Richard must be crazy.
“I won’t believe the words of a crazy man like you.”
She was pale, looking up at Richard with hatred.
“Don’t you believe it? You can crash here if you don’t believe me, then go to hell and see if my son is there! All the tragedies are due to you. You fail to live up to my son’s infatuation. My son has been depressed for the past two years because of your disappearance, and he is as thin as a walking skeleton. He sits in front of the door every day and says, “She will come back to see me. She will come back to see me. She promised me she would come back to see me.” … He repeated the same words every day. Until a week ago, he overheard me talking to his mother that I saw a woman who looked like you in B city. He ran out of the house like a madman, screaming that he was going to find you. His mother and I chased after him to keep him from going, but he panicked, hiding from us, and was killed by a truck. To the moment of dying, he was murmuring that you will come back to see him …!”
When Richard said this, he almost wanted to skin Bella alive, “My son died because of you, but you still do not believe. I want to argue with you and let you kneel before my son’s grave to repent. I looked for you for five whole days, asked around before finally found you in F city. Following you along the way, I didn’t expect to see that obscene scene. You abandoned Kevin like you abandoned my son, and then you fell in love with another man. My son died not long before, but you cuddled with someone. You’re a dirty woman. I’m sorry I couldn’t see you die at my feet. I couldn’t avenge my son’s death, but it doesn’t matter. I won’t let you go even after I die. Let’s wait and see. I will become a fierce ghost to haunt you day and night, and I will make your life worse than death! … hahaha!!!”
Richard was taken away by two policemen, and Bella leaned weakly against the wall as if she was running on empty, completely unconscious.
A policewoman came over and asked sympathetically, “Miss, are you okay?”
She shook her head woodenly, “I’m fine.” As soon as she stepped out of the police station, she was dizzy, and just as she thought she would fall straight down, a man jumped out of a car which stopped in front of her and held her tightly with his arms.