You Faked Your Deaths to Punish Me?! That’s Illegal, Family! novel Chapter 100

Chapter 9

We never left Boston.

Mason brought me to a military compound where he’d also arranged for my mother to stay.

As soon as we entered, I saw Mom sitting at a square table, tears streaming down her face.

Beside her stood a white-haired man in military uniform, his face flushed with anger.

Mason and I exchanged glances before hurrying inside together.

“Mom.”

“Commander Blake.”

When Mom saw my soaked clothes, her face went pale with worry.

“What happened to you?”

Not daring to tell the truth, I squeezed her hand reassuringly. “It’s nothing. Just got splashed by someone dumping water in the alley.”

Mason glanced at me but didn’t expose my lie. Instead, he quietly asked the elderly man:

“Commander, what’s going on?”

Commander Blake shot him an irritated look. “You have the nerve to ask? A scumbag like this running loose in Boston, and you didn’t say a word to me?”

The Commander had quite a temper. He pushed past Mason to stand in front of me.

“Delilah, your mother told me everything about your family.”

“Don’t worry. What happened in my city is my business to fix, and fix it I will.”

“You and your mother aren’t going anywhere. Go clean up, change your clothes, and make yourselves at home here.”

I instinctively looked at Mom. She pulled me into a room, helping me get clothes from a suitcase while explaining:

“He’s some kind of high-ranking officer. I couldn’t help myself-we were just chatting, and I ended up telling him about your dad. He flew into a rage, insisting he’d stand up for us.”

Seeing Mom’s guilty expression, I patted her shoulder and took the clothes into the bathroom.

changing, I went straight to Mason and asked him point-blank about Commander Blake’s identity.

Mason told me the Commander was on the same level as his grandfather, with several first-class medals of honor-the kind of man who could turn Boston upside down with a stomp of his foot.

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Seeing my jaw drop in amazement and the calculating look in my eyes, Mason laughed.

“About your dad’s case-if you have solid evidence, you might actually want to trust the Commander.”

“He’s the type who can’t stand even a speck of dirt in his eye. Righteousness to the extreme.”

Following Mason’s advice, the next day I placed a flash drive and voice recorder in front of Commander Blake.

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I wasn’t sure if the flash drive contained any criminal evidence against Theo, but the recorder had captured my conversation in the car.

Cassidy never dreamed I’d been wearing a recorder that day.

Initially, I’d planned to use it against Theo.

I figured if he caught me downloading his data, I’d go down fighting with him.

Instead of using it on Theo, it ended up being used on Cassidy.

After listening to the recording, Commander Blake grew furious again.

“Unbelievable! In broad daylight, under the rule of law, these people casually talk about murder and deliberately driving someone to suicide!”

Mason brought a laptop from his room and plugged in the flash drive. After three days of searching, we couldn’t find any useful evidence.

Exhausted, Mason’s hand slipped on the mouse, accidentally opening an auto-backup of a chat program.

There lay a record of a payment made from an offshore account to the girl’s family.

Thinking of that girl, I immediately had Mason take me to her home.

But terrified of Theo, the entire family had moved away.

Returning disappointed, we ran into Theo in the alley.

He had lost weight, with an air of dejection surrounding him.

When he saw me, a faint light slowly kindled in his eyes.

“Delilah? I knew you weren’t dead.”

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