Speed Candles novel Chapter 42

Seeing her weaseling out of this, Maisie thought it was because of her father, “Is it because of your father for you to say that?”

Emily pursed her lips and handed the apple to Maisie, “Now in the C City, everyone knows that I am a murderer. I just want to find out what really happened to my father. I won’t think about other things for now.”

“Emily, no matter how others think of you, I always believe you. It’s me who brought you up.” Maisie was about to speak, but finally said nothing. In the end, she was still determined to say it out, “But I hope you won’t get in touch with the child of the Clark family. Even in the heyday of your father, their family would think we are not a fine match for them, let alone now.”

Maisie had gone through it all, so she knew more. She was worried that after Emily was married into the Clark family, she would be alone and been wronged.

It was already evening when she arrived at her apartment from the Morris mansion, and it was dark outside.

Just as she took off her high heels and walked into the room, she heard someone was knocking at the door.

First, that person was knocking at the door, but later, he directly smashed the door hard.

She was alone in the apartment. When you were alone at home, it was natural any loud sound would make you tremble with fear.

She walked back to the door and instinctively reached out her hand to twist the handle. Fortunately, she felt that something was wrong. Most people would not smash the door, so the person smashing the door must be a stranger, and the purpose of him coming here was very clear.

Not long ago, she read the news about the murder case of a single woman in her apartment. It was said that someone knocked at her door for no reason and said that he came to repair the pipe. Then that man came in, raped the woman, and then killed her. After dismembering her body, that man put them in a suitcase and dragged them to the river. It took four to five days for the police to get the woman’s body out of the river.

At the thought of this, Emily got goosebumps all over her body. She took a deep breath to calm down. She saw through the peephole. The harsh sound of smashing the door came again, which scared her back a few steps.

This time the person not only smashed the door but also shouted at her loudly, “Open the door.”

Looking out through the peephole, Emily could vaguely see two strange faces outside the door. It seemed that they were still carrying something, but she couldn’t see clearly what they were carrying with them.

She did not dare to make any sound and hoped they could leave, but they smashed the door even harder. The vibration came through the door to her body, making her heart thump.

At the same time, the man shouted fiercely outside, “Open the door. Or we will smash the door open.”

This time, she asked, “Who are you?”

“Bitch, I know you are home. How dare you hide from us? You almost fooled me.”

Then another man said, “Don’t care about who we are. We know you are Emily Morris. Open the door quickly.”

They dashed against the door from time to time, so the door was shaking. Emily stared at the door. Her heart was thumping, and she was afraid that the door was not good enough, and the men outside could break it easily.

They came here to find her and knew her name. For a moment, she didn’t know whom she had offended.

What’s more, her neighbors could definitely hear the sound, but none of them had come out to help her. These two men must have held something dangerous in their hands.

Emily immediately thought of that kind of long knife used by fruit stalls to cut watermelon. She felt horrible when she thought about it. Emily was afraid of pain most. Now, she couldn’t even think about that.

Anyway, they had already known she was home. She nerved herself and asked, “Who sent you here? How much did he pay you? I can pay double.”

They didn’t pay any attention to her words, and just kept smashing the door. She felt more and more scared if she just waited there. Finally, she trembled and went towards the sofa to get her phone. The person she could think of at that time was Sebastian.