Let me go, Mr. Hill [by Shallow South] Chapter 241
Jeffery turned pale. He knew that he was in trouble.
If he did not testify now, then he might really end up in jail when Sally pushed the responsibility to him. “Okay, I’ll confess. It was Sally Lennon. She took advantage of when your grandmother was sleeping and… suffocated her to death.”
Perhaps it was the last trace of his conscience, but Jeffery finally fell to the ground and cried.
Catherine and Aunty Wendy also cried. They did not expect Old Madam Jones’ end to be so miserable.
Aunty Wendy asked, “One last question. That day the old madam fell from the stairs, was it Rebecca who did it?”
“I really don’t know about that.” Jeffery shook his head, but thinking about Rebecca’s personality, he felt that she might have really done it. However, he only had one daughter and did not want her to go to jail.
In the end, Jeffery was taken away by the police for questioning.
Catherine looked at the dark villa behind her.
This was once her home, but now it was a place she no longer wanted to set foot in.
She took out the keys and threw them on the grass before turning around and walking out the door.
A limousine was parked at the entrance.
Shaun’s handsome and upright body leaned against the car. It was snowing a little tonight, and snowflakes covered his head and shoulders. He looked at her, his deep and clear eyes like the only starlight in the sky.
At that moment, Catherine, who had no home, seemed to have found a home. She jumped into his arms, and Shaun unfolded his coat to wrap her inside it.
“Shaunny, I finally got my revenge.” Catherine choked in his arms. “But I’m not happy at all. I regret that I didn’t spend more time with Grandma before. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have died so miserably.”
The woman’s tears wet the shirt on his chest.
Shaun did not know how to comfort others. He waited for her to finish crying and patted her head. “You did well tonight. There was no evidence at all yet you managed to get a confession.”
“I took a gamble. I gambled on his humanity. I gambled on what’s left of Jeffery’s guilt and conscience. I gambled that he would be selfish enough to tattle on Sally Lennon.”
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