“Stop beating around the bush and get straight to the point!” Wyatt snapped.
Jacob raised his hands to surrender and quickly said, “The point is, she called me on the second day after I returned to the country to ask me for help to investigate two people, and I got someone to do that. That evening when I asked to meet you at the club to discuss business, I received updates from my subordinate on the investigation. When I called her to tell her that the two people are both dead, she cried.”
“Was Oliver Marsh the man you investigated? And the other person was his wife?” Wyatt asked.
“Yes! That’s right!” Jacob nodded continuously. Letting out a sigh, he continued, “I didn’t know they were her relatives. If I had known, I wouldn’t have told her the bad news.”
Wyatt’s expression darkened when he heard that.
He had thought that Jessica knew her uncle and aunt had passed away. It turned out that she was completely unaware of it.
Who was the person who told her then?
Images of Jessica from the previous night flashed in Wyatt’s mind. She had knelt before him and pleaded with him to let Oliver and Danielle off. It turned out that she had misunderstood that he was the one who killed her family! Realization dawned on the man at once.
With a menacing gaze in his eyes, a mirthless smile appeared on Wyatt’s face. “D*mn it! How dare someone set me up!”
The culprit’s intention must have been to sow discord between him and Jessica.
“Set you up? Who?” Jacob asked curiously. Rubbing his chin, he said, “Wyatt, I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”
Ignoring his friend, Wyatt asked, “How did she contact you previously?”
“Oh. I bought her a phone.”
“Who else knows her number?”
“Other than me, my mom has her number too.” Wyatt’s expression became even gloomier after he heard Jacob’s reply.
Wyatt had managed to get some important clues from his conversation with Jacob.
What he could be sure of was that someone had been spying on Jessica. In addition to having Jessica’s number, that person seemed to know every move of hers and Jacob’s.
The man drummed on the table with his fingers and asked Jacob coldly, “How did you know her?”
“Didn’t you already know?” Jacob questioned back.
“What the f*cking hell do I know?” When Wyatt heard that, anger welled up in his chest. “I was unable to find her after her friend arranged for her to go overseas. How could I have known how you two got acquainted with each other?”
“Oh,” Jacob finally understood what Wyatt meant and replied, “She told me that her boyfriend had dumped her overseas after they had a fight. So that was actually a lie.”
Jacob spent the next three minutes telling Wyatt all about where and how he had met Jessica, what Jessica looked like when he first saw her, and how they ended up together. He did not dare to leave out any details.
Even though Wyatt remained expressionless as he listened quietly, he was gripping his pen so hard that his knuckles had turned white.
His crimson-red eyes were filled with rage as he pressed his lips tightly together.
The man was shocked to know how much Jessica had suffered when she was in Yartran. She was even almost raped!
How did she manage to keep the baby safe under those circumstances?
“Wyatt, are you… okay?” Sensing the hostile aura around Wyatt, a shiver ran down Jacob’s spine, and he took a few steps backward. It felt as if Wyatt could murder someone right then.
Jacob was well aware that he would not be able to beat Wyatt in a fight and did not want to risk provoking him.
“I’m all right. I’m very calm right now.” Wyatt took a deep breath while trying to suppress his emotions.
He knew that it was important for him to keep a clear mind as his current priority was to find out the truth.
Jacob was at a loss for words.
“Since it was her friend who arranged for her to go overseas, why would she…” Jacob stopped himself mid-sentence but could not help being curious. As such, he continued cautiously, “When I first saw her, she looked as if she had been badly tortured.”
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