“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.

her eyes in realization. “So

suddenly ask to see me to talk about Jacqueline? Hasn’t she gone missing? I even heard some people

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, I came to you because

the question, but then, she began to

now that you mention it, I think it really was her. Even though I haven’t seen her or heard her voice in ten years, I can

culprit who wanted me dead was Jacqueline,” clenching her

who reported Alice as

and I never once

detail, and that’s

Shane already knew that Mr. Gunn was Jacqueline’s great-grandfather, at that time, 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

know that Alice was actually innocent. So I never thought of the possibility that Mr. Gunn might have found someone to take the fall for

much deeper

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