The Heiress He Underestimated novel Chapter 141

Chapter 141 Drugged

‘Sarah’s dad stormed out. Said he was going home, getting his lawyer, the deal was dead. He was angry. Really angry. And your father just smiled. That’s what I remember most. He smiled like he’d already won.”

And then?”

Then about an hour later, Sarah started acting weird. Dizzy and very confused. She said she felt drunk but he hadn’t been drinking. I was trying to help her when your father showed up. He said he’d take care of it, hat he’d drive her home. And like an idiot, I believed him. He was an adult, a respected businessman. I hought she’d be safe.”

ennifer’s voice broke. “But he didn’t take her home. He put her in her parents‘ car. He must have driven it himself to that intersection, probably with Sarah passed out in the passenger seat. And then he caused the accident. Made it look like Sarah had been driving drunk, lost control and killed her parents.”

How do you know all this?” Clara asked. “If you weren’t there, how do you know what he did?”

Because he made a mistake. There was a traffic camera at that intersection. It caught everything. The car arriving, Sarah being moved from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat, Kieran Nethys walking away. I saw the footage.”

Then why didn’t the police see it?”

They did, or at least, one detective did. Detective Michael Reeves. He showed it to me, asked me if I could dentify the man in the video. And I did. I told him it was Kieran Nethys.”

ennifer pulled out her phone, her hands shaking. “And the next day, Detective Reeves was found dead. And it was reported apparent suicide. Shot himself in his apartment. But Detective Reeves was a devoted Father of three who went to church every Sunday. I don’t think he was suicidal, I think he was murdered.”

The temperature in the coffee shop seemed to drop another ten degrees.

After that, I got a visit. Two men in suits. They said they were lawyers but I know they weren’t. They had his energy, you know? Like people who hurt other people for a living. They gave me an envelope. Hundred thousand dollars in cash. And they told me if I ever mentioned the traffic camera footage, if I ever said Kieran Nethys’s name in connection to the accident, they’d kill me. And they’d make it look like in accident, just like Detective Reeves.”

So you took the money and disappeared,” Elera said quietly.

I took the money and ran. I changed my name, moved across the country, and tried to start over. But you can’t start over when you’re carrying that kind of guilt. Sarah was institutionalized. She lost five years of her life. And I did nothing.”

Elera felt like the world was tilting. Her father. Her father had killed two people and framed a traumatized teenager for it. Her father had murdered a detective who got too close to the truth. Her father was a monster, and she’d suspected it but she hadn’t known, hadn’t wanted to know.

“There’s more,” Jennifer said, and Elera couldn’t imagine what could possibly be worse than what she’d already heard. “You were there that night. At the party.”

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Chapter 141 Drugged

“I know. I left early.”

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“You did. But not before Kieran saw you, not before you saw him with Sarah.” Jennifer leaned forward. “I saw you arguing with him in the hallway. I couldn’t hear what you were saying, but you looked scared. And then about ten minutes later, you left. You were stumbling, holding onto the wall. At the time I thought maybe you’d been drinking. But now I think he drugged you too.”

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