Betrayed By Husband, Stolen By Brother In Law Chapter 213: Horror

"This is... very odd."

Elias Krar sat in a small, dimly lit office tucked away inside the city police headquarters, still trying to process what he had just heard and seen. The shock hadn’t worn off, not from the entire discussions, and certainly not from the implications. But strangely enough, it wasn’t just his shock that filled the room. There was soone else, perhaps even more rattled than he was. The two detectives who had thought and firmly believed that this entire case was clear as water... Yeah right! It was as clear as sewage water!

They had combed through hours of surveillance footage, specifically tracking any sign of Adam’s body or even this woman called Myra who seed to have taken away Saira...But nothing... not a trace. No entry. No exit. No movent. It was as if the body had never been there in the first place. It could be seen that he was taken away from the ICU but then, he seed to have disappeared...even the orderly who had pushed the the stretcher was shocked how the video ended up showing an entirely different body when he transferred it to the morgue...

And now, to make matters worse, they were dealing with two missing bodies—one of which remained completely unidentified ( since it was not Saira, apparently), a mystery with no na or story, and the other... well, the other might not even be dead but had been declared dead...

Add to that the disappearance of two people: one who was supposedly dead and should have been in the morgue, and the other whose last known location only raised more questions. It was becoming harder and harder to tell who was actually missing and who was simply hiding and who dead and who was alive!

What kind of ss was this! Sothing like this he had never seen in his life.

And now, there was another piece of news. Because Saira Vaugn who was missing or dead or whatever, seed to have never entered the country of Maniwa. The person who had co into the country with Adam was seemingly nad Myra Vaugn but when they tried to look for her passport details, they seed to have disappeared.

Even the immigration which collected their bio sensitive data seed to be missing.

Finally, after almost pulling their hair out, the detective stared at Elias and bit out, "Let’s not dance around it any longer. The key piece in this whole damn ss is your client—lanie Collins."

Elias blinked, slowly lifting his gaze from the chaos of papers on the desk. "Excuse ?"

Detective Harrow, seated opposite him, leaned forward and said, "You heard right. We’ve been going in circles for days. Disappearing bodies, false identities, surveillance gaps, biotric failures... But one na threads through it all—lanie Collins. She’s at the center of this, whether she wants to be or not. And frankly, she should be behind bars until we get the full story."

Krar scoffed. "On what grounds? You cannot charge her! You don’t even know what cri you’re accusing her of. Murder? Where is your victim? Kidnapping? Who did she kidnap sicne she is already looking for her husband and has been unlawfully detained by you for the last few days? Are you going to accuse her of Witchcraft?"

Detective Harrow’s jaw clenched as he banged his hand on the table. "You keep acting like she’s so kind of saint, Krar, but we’re the ones digging through this ss, trying to figure out who’s lying. You think it’s normal for this many people to vanish into thin air? Soone’s orchestrating it. And all roads keep circling back to her."

"Really? Then you better have sothing stronger than gut feelings and paranoia. Or is it easier to bully a lone woman than admit your entire investigation is falling apart?"

The second detective, a quieter man with a tired face and sunken eyes, finally spoke. "She’s not just any woman Krar. She’s... connected. And whether she knows it or not, she’s in deeper than she claims. Even if soone wants her to be in the...she could even be in danger..."

"She’s been detained without charge for three days," Elias snapped. "You’ve harassed her with the sa circular questions, and conveniently lost the biotric trail of the woman who actually walked into Maniwa under a false identity! And you’re still trying to pin it all on lanie?"

"Don’t twist this. We’ve been chasing shadows since the night we discovered the dead body in the hotel And now we don’t even have a body. No security logs that make sense. And now, conveniently, Saira Vaugn—who doesn’t exist on any national registry—vanishes. Doesn’t that set off alarms in your legal brain?"

Krar scoffed, "What sets off alarms is your obsession with lanie Collins when it’s clear you’ve hit a wall. So, tell , detectives—why are you so damn eager to put her behind bars? Why the rush? Why the pressure? Unless... soone is leaning on you."

The detectives tensed. "What’s that supposed to an?"

"Oh, co on," Elias said in a voice dripping with contempt. "I’ve been in too many rooms like this not to see the signs. You’ve got no case, no motive, and no suspect you can touch-so you’re manufacturing one out of the only person you can reach. Are you being bribed? Threatened? Or is it just easier to please soone higher up by keeping lanie quiet?"

Harrow’s face turned red as he pointed his finger at the lawyer, "Watch it, Krar. You’re skating on contempt and false accusations!"

"Try ," Elias said, practically daring him. "Because from where I’m standing, you’re wasting everyone’s ti,and you’re complicit in violating my client’s rights. If you’re not on soone’s payroll, you’re doing a very good impression of it."

The room fell silent. Harrow looked ready to throw a chair, while the second detective rubbed a hand across his jaw, staring at the floor, saying nothing.

Then, suddenly, the door burst open.

A young officer stepped in, eyes wide. "Detectives—sir—there’s soone downstairs. Says he knows how to find Adam Collins."

That froze everyone.

Harrow blinked. "Who?"

"He wouldn’t give a full na," the officer replied breathlessly. "Just said to tell you that he has... information. Said it’s urgent."

Elias turned sharply. "He knows Adam’s alive?"

"He said he knows where to look," the officer clarified. "And that you’d understand once you heard him out."