"I had thought Josh or Victor would be the mastermind, but it was the doing of David's man," Cyrus

explained with doubt. "I was worried that David would pull some tricks, so I sent someone to keep an

eye on his attorney. After all, he hasn't met with anyone except for his attorney.

"But we found nothing suspicious about his attorney. We dug into his call log—he did not contact the

culprit."

"That's odd. Did one of David's men act without permission out of his loyalty to David? Was he worried

that David's scandal would be publicized? Does David even have a lackey who's that sharp-witted?"

Frowning, Alyssa fell into deep thought.

Then, she suddenly chuckled. "Maybe Josh had a card up his sleeve and pulled an act of killing with a

borrowed knife."

"Is he using David?" Jasper wondered in a low, icy voice.

"As impatient as Josh, he must have wanted to silence Maggie after his men noticed we had reached

out to her." Alyssa might be hot-tempered, but she always remained cool-headed in times of urgency.

She analyzed carefully, "But the risk of silencing Maggie was high because he had to succeed at one

go under our noses. It was certainly a dangerous feat.

"That's why he thought of getting David's man to pull it off. Even if we got hold of the weapon, we'd

suspect David instead of him, and he'd get out of this."

Jasper fixed an admiring gaze on her.

He swooned after her, unable to

Schmidts are indeed a loving family, aren't they?" Cyrus sneered

and his brother will not get away this

news and cleared himself of

to the culprit. I'm afraid it's

a stern

with arresting him. I can't eat well until I close the case," Cyrus thundered. "I

of failing to

Go with the flow. Do not get

as things unfold."

call, silence descended

the top of her

horrible, but I quite like

pieces of evidence were against David, he wouldn't just be arrested on

charges of contract killing and attempted first-degree murder.

serves a consecutive sentence."

Why do we always share the same thought?" Alyssa

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