He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 148

The moment Scarlett and Jacqueline rushed in, they recognized him instantly.

It was Artie, the floor manager Jacqueline had recently fired.

Scarlett's eyes turned murderously cold.

"Stellan, what is the meaning of this? He set the fire?"

Stellan nodded sharply. "Yes. He confessed to everything. He set the fire, and I have the entire audio recording securely saved."

Jacqueline stepped forward in absolute disbelief, grabbing Artie by the hair and forcing him to look up.

"Artie, why would you do this?"

"You worked for me for nearly ten years. When your mother was dying of terminal cancer, I lent you fifty thousand dollars so you could afford her treatments. How... how could you bite the hand that fed you?"

Whatever interrogation methods Stellan had used had thoroughly broken Artie. He was terrified, cowering like a frightened animal.

Under their fierce glares, Artie spilled everything.

He admitted that, aside from wanting revenge for being fired, a woman named Stetson had promised to pay him five hundred thousand dollars to do it.

A woman named Stetson.

Those four words made Scarlett's blood boil with uncontainable rage.

Who else could it possibly be other than Sylvia Stetson?

Scarlett couldn't believe this woman was so incredibly vile and deranged that she would actually hire someone to burn down a crowded nightclub.

If her mother hadn't strictly enforced the use of the highest quality fireproof materials during the renovations, if she hadn't installed top-tier sprinkler systems, and if the fire hadn't been contained in time... tonight would have become a hellish massacre.

Scarlett genuinely believed Sylvia had lost her mind.

Just to vent her petty anger, she had willingly disregarded the lives of hundreds of innocent people inside La Belle Nuit.

How was this any different from outright slaughter?

Since Sylvia was so utterly psychotic, so determined to drag innocent people into the fires of hell, then tonight, Scarlett—armed with hard evidence—would personally show her exactly what hell looked like.

Scarlett instructed Stellan to gather all the evidence and recordings, and to keep Artie securely locked away.

With the limitless resources of her mysterious benefactor backing her, orchestrating these moves was entirely effortless.

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