Feel the Way You Feel, My Love

“Did they find anything then?” Natalie inquired.

Alice smiled bitterly. “Of course not. The Grahams framed Ms. Larson just to keep Mrs. Garcia from sniffing Jacqueline out. That’s why Ms. Larson and her whole family were kicked out of the banquet. I was a coward back then. I didn’t dare to tell what I saw. It wasn’t only until later that I told Ms. Larson about it.”

“Is that why the Grahams went bankrupt?” Natalie surmised.

Alice nodded. “Yes. The Larsons joined forces with enemies of the Graham family, and the Grahams went bankrupt as a result. After that, the incident of Jacqueline torturing a cat spread like wildfire.”

“Wait, then why didn’t Shane know anything about it?” Natalie’s brows furrowed in confusion.

If Shane knew about Jacqueline’s sick hobby of torturing animals, he would never have indulged her every step of the way.

“Mr. Shane was studying abroad at that time. He only came back to J City after Jacqueline went missing. By then, the Graham family had already crumbled, so naturally, no one mentioned all the things Jacqueline did. I’m not surprised that Mr. Shane didn’t know about it,” Alice explained.

in realization. “So that’s

me to talk about Jacqueline? Hasn’t she gone missing? I even heard some people say she’s already dead.”

lips curled into a mirthless smile. “No, she’s not dead or missing. She’s just been in a vegetative state for ten years. No one knows about it because the news wasn’t made public, but she’s awake now. Anyway,

stunned by the question, but then, she

really was her. Even though I haven’t seen her or heard her voice in ten years, I can

to confirm that the real culprit who wanted me dead was Jacqueline,” clenching her

makes sense now. The one who reported

and I never once doubted the investigation

both overlooked a very important detail, and that’s the relationship between Mr.

he still thought Jacqueline was the same innocent and kind girl. That’s why he never entertained the possibility that she’d be the culprit, which was also why he never suspected Mr. Gunn of covering up

because I didn’t know that Alice was actually innocent. So I never thought of the possibility that Mr. Gunn

much deeper that I’d