Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 206

Elspeth eventually couldn’t bring herself to leave her alone, so she followed her to the police station.Naturally, Blake insisted on tagging along out of his concern for Elspeth.Before leaving the filming set, Elspeth turned to look at Timothy and whispered, “Help me check the surveillance footage.”Timothy’s eyes flickered slightly. “Roger that.”Elspeth followed Yelena to the police station to get their statements recorded. Looking at her gorgeous face, the cop couldn’t bring himself to say anything that would put her on the spot, so he began to interrogate Yelena instead. “Since you say you didn’t do it on purpose, do you have any evidence to back that up?” Yelena shook her head. “I don’t know. Perhaps the snack got poison in it, but I really didn’t poison the snack. I wanted to eat the snack at first.”The cop frowned. “Such an explanation isn’t convincing enough.”Seeing how Yelena turned pale as though she were about to burst into tears in fright, Elspeth chimed in, “I have something to say, sir.”“Shoot.”“I suspect that she was set up by someone.”The cop became interested at once. “Why do you say that?”Elspeth explained, “First of all, if Yelena were intent on poisoning that lady, she wouldn’t have waited for that lady to come to her of her own accord. Instead, she would bring the snack to that lady. If it were someone other than that lady who asked Yelena for the snack, she would end up poisoning that person without knowing. No clever person would do this.”The cop nodded thoughtfully. “What you say does make sense.”Elspeth continued, “Secondly, that lady is pretty, but she’s far less pretty compared to Yelena. Yelena has a pretty good reputation on the filming set, so you can get someone to ask around about it. There’s no way she would hurt anyone out of jealousy.”A faint smile played on the cop’s lips after he listened to Elspeth’s explanation. “Miss Lynwood, there’s nothing wrong with your explanation, but I’d still like to say that you’ve got no evidence to back it up.”Elspeth clenched her fists. “I know I have no proof of it. I’ll do my best to find proof of it, but I hope you can refrain from holding Yelena in custody before that.”The cop was surprised. “But this is against the rules.”Elspeth argued, “Yelena is a public figure. If people learn that she’s been held at the police station, it’ll greatly affect her career as an actress.”“That’s none of our business.”The cop admired Elspeth’s gift of the gab, but he insisted on playing it by the book and wouldn’t listen to her at all.Blake’s face was grim as he sat beside them. “What’s the matter? Don’t tell me that the Winthrops have no say in this anymore?”“Mr. Winthrop, we’re just judging the case as it stands. And besides, the Winthrop Family’s influence doesn’t extend into the police department.”Naturally, the cop knew who Blake was. Even so, seeing the man’s surly expression, he merely smiled without attempting to grovel at him. If it were Blake who had been taken into custody, he would consider releasing the man. After all, nobody would