My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna) novel Chapter 152

The investor didn't want to cause a scene, so he offered William a large amount of money in hope that he would just take it and leave the place. But William refused, and he even reported that matter to the authorities.

At last, the investor was brought away by the police. During the investigation, it was found that the investor was also involved in bribery and corruption cases. The investor's wife was having a promising career as a politician. A scandal of that scale would most definitely hurt her reputation. Thus, she decided to take things to the court, and filed a divorce with him. She also presented a few pieces of evidence gathered from the illegal acts that her husband had done over the decades to court.

With the evidence present, the court sentenced the investor accordingly to his crime. The court also ordered him to return the assets he earned from his illegal acts. The investor, who had lost everything, took his life while in prison.

It was at that time that I found out the investor was actually Aaron's biological father. I also learned that his birth mother passed away due to lung cancer in the same year Carol took him under her care.

After his father's death, Aaron's personality shifted to the worst. He was a quiet child before. But ever since his father's wrongdoings were revealed, other kids in the alley took advantage of that, and they would beat him up just because his father was the bad guy. The funding Carol received for taking care of him was also stopped indefinitely following the investor's death.

As a child, how he viewed the world was based on what he was told. Everyone around him hated him and bullied him because of his father, and it pushed him even further from the others.

Aaron began to shift his attention to the stray cats and stray dogs in the alley instead. He would kill, abuse, or poison them. He would even cut off the strays' limbs and send those to the children who had bullied him. Furthermore, he would leave those carcasses in the alley, making the alley stunk so bad to the point that people could no longer live in the alley.

The factory was already abandoned, and people started moving out from the alley. William was rewarded for reporting to the authority, and he planned to move out from Hovell with his family.

On the day they planned to move out, William's whole family was hospitalized due to food poisoning. The abandoned factory's sewage process machine was also blown up on the same day.

The factory was already abandoned for some time, so the explosion didn't garner much interest from the local residents. On the other hand, after spending three days in the hospital, William and his wife passed away. His daughter lived, but she became mentally unstable ever since.

Hovell was a small town, and people believed that the couple died due to food poisoning. However, I knew that Aaron killed them by injecting needles into