Chapter 187 Terror

Susanne fixed a steady gaze on Arielle. “Focus on living the best life now that you’re back. Stop meddling with the dark shadows of the past! Sometimes ignorance is bliss. So what if you manage to find out the truth? You can’t bring your mother back to life.”

Arielle, however, looked defiant. “I’ll be able to deliver some justice to Mom, at least!”

Susanne softened her tone. “If she were watching you from heaven right now, she’d want you to live a good life too.”

Arielle shook her head vehemently. “The only reason I came back here was to seek revenge for my mother. If I can’t even do that for her, what’s the point in coming back?”

To Arielle’s surprise, the expression that flitted across Susanne’s face was one of approval.

 

However, it quickly faded and was replaced with a look of helplessness. “I’m sorry, but I can’t help. I couldn’t uncover anything ten years ago, and it’s definitely more difficult now. If there was any proof then, it would most probably have been destroyed by now.”

Arielle had not expected to get anything out of Susanne. It was sufficient that her suspicions regarding Maureen’s suicide were confirmed.

 

“The second question,” Arielle prompted, taking out two pieces of paper from her pocket. She held them out towards Susanne.

considerably less impatience than before and

Susanne froze. She then raised

face was even more obvious than it had

quivering voice, Susanne stammered, “You…You’re

at all. I looked at my mother’s diary but could get no answers out

Susanne’s face entirely. She looked at Arielle with a gaze of

she recollected herself. “I don’t know. I don’t know

think you know more than you’re choosing to say. What do you know?

and whispered, “Shh! Stop talking! If you want

proof of Arielle’s kinship and ripped them into a million

to stop Susanne in time. When she had regained her composure,

she said emphatically, “I’m doing this for your own

cynical. Seeing that she was about to launch into another tirade,

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