The Ultimate Reborn Heiress (Scarlett) novel Chapter 25

Chapter 25 Serial Killer

On the first sweep, they didn’t find anything in Dillon’s place.

Not until the third search did they uncover a tiny, almost invisible hidden bedroom.

The compartment was concealed cleverly in the structure of the room.

Clearly, this was exactly the kind of design Dillon had studied.

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Inside were two glass jars, each holding a grisly trophy preserved in formalin: a human heart and a severed hand.

After Scarlett left the station with the three crew members, she said, “Our shift isn’t over yet. Let’s keep delivering.”

The three staffers looked stunned—after a day like this, she still wanted to keep working?

But since she’d said so, all they could do was follow her lead.

As soon as the cameras came back on and viewers saw her taking orders again, the livestream chat exploded.

“What?! Why is she delivering again? Didn’t she just go to the station to give a statement?”

“So, what is going on? Is it really just a script like people on Instagram are saying?”

“If the production really faked this, that’s disgusting.”

“Do the producers have any sense? If this is scripted, you’re tanking your own show. Gross. If you have to fake things, at least make it plausible–don’t pull stunts like this.”

“Holy crap, go check Instagram–Willow just spoke up for Scarlett. She’s the victim from earlier.”

Willow wasn’t exactly famous, but she still had tens of thousands of followers on Instagram.

Willow posted, “@Scarlett Sanchez, thank you for saving me! This wasn’t scripted. That monster had me locked up

for two days. I thought I was dead for sure–three different delivery riders came each day, and I went from hopeful to completely hopeless. I truly thought I would die, but Scarlett noticed something was wrong and saved me. I want to remind every woman living alone: please be careful!”

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At the hospital, doctors checked her wounds–they weren’t deep or fatal. It was the two days without food or water that had left her dangerously weak, and a nutrient drip had stabilized her.

Once she learned Scarlett had been the one to save her, she couldn’t stand seeing her savior dragged through the mud. After reading the sneers and mockery under t spoke up online.

Soon, comments flooded in under Willow’s post.

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Some believed her, while others accused her of teaming up with Scarlett to run a fake–hero script and scam the audience.

Willow didn’t care about the insults.

She only knew one thing: it hadn’t been scripted.

Scarlett had saved her life.

Scarlett didn’t care either. She just kept delivering.

Meanwhile, her livestream viewers had climbed from five million to nearly ten million.

That kind of traffic put “Faces of the Crowd” in the top five among all variety livestreams.

By the time Scarlett finished her last delivery, it was 6 p.m.

She was just about to buy some bedding and head back to cook dinner.

She hadn’t even reached the supermarket when her phone rang–the call was from the major crimes unit.

“Hello, Ms. Sanchez. This is the Brookriver City Ureavon District Major Crimes Unit. We wanted to thank you for your bravery.

“The attacker is indeed tied to other homicides. We’ve found evidence, and he’s confessed. The precinct is awarding you 100,000 dollars in reward money. You can come by now to collect it.”

Cody had never expected Dillon to turn out to be the suspect in two old home–invasion murders—one in Novawright City six years ago, another in Brookriver three years back.

Back then, the two cases had looked nothing alike.

To start with, they’d happened in different cities.

Both victims were women, but the time gap between the crimes was huge.

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In one case, the weapon had been a hammer and in the other, a kitchen knife taken from the victim’s own home.

The only real common thread was how vicious the killer was.

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In one case, the victim’s heart had been cut out, with a saucepan still sittin

Investigators had suspected cannibalism, thinking the killer had cooked and caten the heart.

In the other case, the victim had been dismembered.

Several parts were never recovered—including both feet.

Even the way Dillon attacked Willow this time didn’t match either of the earlier patterns.

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