22 Questioning Maya 1

The last person to be interrogated was Maya. (1)

“Miss Maya, you are Miss Jeslyn’s assistant, am I right?” Spid asked.

“Yes.”

“When she entered the house with her grandfather, where were you?”

“We entered together.”

“How many of you were in the sitting room at that time?”

“Just the three of us.”

“Where were the guards and the helpers?”

“We didn’t look for them, however, none of them were in sight.”

“You were there when Miss Jeslyn told everything to her grandfather, yes or no?”

“Yes.”

“She looked for her phone, yes or no?”

“Yes.”

“What did she ask you to do afterward?”

“She asked me to call the hotel management.”

“Did you?”

“Yes.”

“Who did you call?”

“The manager.”

“At what time?”

“I can’t remember.”

did the manager say?”

they’d look for

me the manager’s number”

“Huh?”

her phone here. Spid gestured to one of the

number?” Spid asked while looking at

manager,” she replied after

and unlocked the phone with a doubtful look on her face. She handed it to

us display the call history of ‘hotel manager’ dated

18:28 CD

1/4

6th of October 2022, from 3:50-4:15

and started to scroll through the phone until

head and said: “There’s no record of the hotel

while everyone was looking at the large TV

call log,” Maya

“Why?”

records of calls on my phone. Seeing too many contacts on my call log isn’t pleasing

understand Miss…” he turned to the judge. “Your honor, point to note. She hates leaving her call records on

and penned it down.

silent for a few seconds before. The moment the longest hand touched 12, his eyes brightened

scrolling,” he told

nodded and continued to scroll through Maya’s phone. To everyone’s surprise, even

cried out when she saw

Ma’am, what phone are you holding?”

one sim slot. The court staff read out

not your phone, Miss?”

but these contacts…”

“Aren’t they yours?”

are, but I deleted

“When?”

time ago.”

phone but only the hotel manager’s

I-”

dial the hotel manager,

started to panic. She wanted to stop it but how? Seeing from the large screen that the court staff was about to hit the call button,

didn’t call the manager!”

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