Having left Fragrance Hall, Keira hailed a cab on the roadside and headed straight for the Olsen
residence.
It was already late.
On the road, she watched the night scene of Oceanion, her jaw tensed.
The day’s encounters felt as if a lifeti had passed.
Previously, she had been muddling through, focusing solely on living well.
Now, her goal was to find the murderer and return to a
normal life.
The car soon arrived at the Olsen ho.
Keira still wore a black mask and cap as she got out of the car and stood at the Olsen family’s
doorstep, ringing the doorbell.
The door was quickly opened.
The person who opened it was Aunt South, who
looked slightly bewildered upon seeing Keira. “Who are you?”
Without knowing who the murderer was, no one could
be trusted.
Keira looked down. “Hello, I’m a classmate of Keira’s.
I’ve co to visit Mrs. Olsen”
Aunt South imdiately said, “I’ll go ask Mr. Olsen!”
Keira nodded.
Aunt South entered the house and soon returned, relaying Tr’s ssage, “Mrs. Olsen has already gone
t
and her husband says to co back uring the day.”
to
taken aback.
ked down at the ti. It was just nine o’clock in
ening.
ough Mrs. Olsen was health-conscious, this wasn’t er usu edti.
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, “I’m sorry, but I don’t live in Oceanion and ne from a long distance. I just want to pay a Mrs. Olsen and
then leave; may I co in for a
t?”
g her insist, Aunt South turned around to inquire
more.
.
But the answer was still a rejection. “Our lady is unwell, and it’s not suitable for her to receive guests
right now,. Please understand.”
The more this happened, the more Keira felt sothing was off. “If she’s unwell, why not stay in the
hospital? Why was she discharged so early?”
Aunt South furrowed her brows. “Who are you? Are you questioning ? What right do you have to
question ?”
Just as Keira was about to speak, a voice suddenly ca from behind her. “If she doesn’t have the
right,
what about ?”
This familiar and deep voice made Keira startle, and she swiftly turned around to find Lewis had
appeared
behind her without notice.
The man looked exhausted, with hollow cheeks and brows tightly knit together. His sharp and cold eyes
were piercing.
He was enveloped in a chilling wind.
Gone was his usual gentlemanly deanor, replaced by an air of cold aloofness.
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All day, Lewis had been inside that restaurant, watching his n check the surrounding surveillance
footage, trying to catch the murderer who had kidnapped Keira.
But there was nothing…
It seed as if that entire street had been emptied, no surveillance caras captured the scene of the
cri.
His wife had been abducted into the sea without
explanation…
Lewis had originally planned to continue searching the sea that evening; the body, to him, felt strange
and unfamiliar. Yet, as soon as he’d heard Mrs. Olsen was discharged, he had rushed over
imdiately.
Keira had never opened up to him.
Yet Lewis had always known the place Jodie South held
in her heart.
After Keira reunited with Jodie South, she beca a typical “Mama’s girl”, even when his grandmother
was sick. He had felt a twinge of jealousy…
Therefore, even if Keira was really gone, he was determined to take good care of Mrs. Olsen for Keira’s
sake!
As Lewis thought about this, he turned to look at the
woman beside him.
It was her again!
Keira’s high school classmate, Keera?
Why was she here in the middle of the night, showing
such concern for Mrs. Olsen?!
Seeing Lewis arrive, Aunt South imdiately exclaid, “Mr. Horton, please co in.”
She dared to stop Keira, but she wouldn’t dare to stop
Lewis!!
When Lewis heard this, he entered the door, and as he. passed by Keira, he hesitated a little, and he
took a
careful look at her.
Her black cap was worn a bit low, hiding her eyes, and the mask was tightly secured-it was impossible
to
make out her face.
But her height was sowhat similar to Keira’s…
Thinking of this, Lewis lowered his gaze.
Upon seeing this, Keira imdiately followed behind
him.
Aunt South imdiately shouted, “Hey, who let you in,
you…
Keira imdiately pointed at Lewis, “I ca in with
him.”
Aunt South was taken aback, looking at Lewis with hesitation. “Mr. Horton?”
Lewis’s brow furrowed slightly. He looked again at Keira, still unable to discern her appearance, but his
intuition told him that this woman wasn’t bad-hearted.
At least she ant no harm to Mrs. Olsen.
Lewis pursed his lips and finally said, “Let her in.”
Keira breathed a sigh of relief and followed behind
him.
The two entered the living room and just happened to see Taylor hurriedly coming down from upstairs.
Lewis asked, “How is Mrs. Olsen? Why was she suddenly discharged from the hospital?”
Taylor sighed. “This afternoon, she woke up and
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insisted that Keira wasn’t dead. He was a bit too
agitated, and then he refused to stay in the hospital. I had no choice but to bring her back.”
The reason was flawless.
Lewis thought about how he himself couldn’t accept that corpse, let alone Mrs. Olsen?
He pursed his lips. “May I see her?”
Taylor’s gaze flickered imdiately.
Today, when he took action against Jodie South, he had been a bit heavy-handed, which resulted in
marks on her body that weren’t presentable.
Taylor said, “Shirley just finished taking a bath, and she’s asleep now. Please co back another day.”
In the future, one must never strike where the marks
could be seen.
But Lewis felt that sothing was off.
He couldn’t put his finger on what was wrong, but it was an intuition.
He knitted his brows, about to say sothing, when the woman beside him suddenly bent over,
clutching
her stomach, and spoke in a fragile voice, “Sir, sorry, but I, I ate sothing bad today and need to use
the
restroom. May I?”
Taylor imdiately scowled. “And you are?”
“I’m a friend of Mr. Horton…”
Lewis’s brow furrowed slightly when he heard this.
As soon as Keira finished speaking, she covered her behind with her other hand. “I’m sorry, I really
can’t hold it!”
After saying this, she looked around and asked Aunt
South, “Where’s the restroom?”
Aunt South pointed to the downstairs bathroom, just about to speak, when she heard Keira say,
“Upstairs, right? Thank you!”
Without another word, she agilely darted upstairs.
Aunt South was dumbfounded.
Taylor’s expression changed slightly. He imdiately turned around. “Don’t go upstairs!”
Before he could move, however, Lewis blocked his way. “Father-in-law, this friend of mine is a bit
careless. Please don’t take it to heart…”
Taylor’s face tensed with anxiety.
He clenched his jaw and looked at Lewis.
But Lewis remained unflinching, only seeing the girl zigzagging in the corridor, heading nowhere else
but straight to Mrs. Olsen’s bedroom door.
Taylor imdiately shouted, “Don’t enter!”
Aunt South also rushed toward the stairs.
But Keira rely paused briefly, then narrowed her eyes and imdiately pushed the door open and
burst
in!
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