Sweet Divorce

“The remitter was Rita.”

The answer covered Liam’s face with a layer of frozen ice. “Are you sure?”

“Yes. We even found the surveillance tape of Rita remitting at the bank.”

“Send me the video.”

“Yes.”

He hung up, is face livid.

The remitter was Rita?

That’s the last outcome he would expect.

With a plinking sound, a message popped up on his phone.

Liam put the car in neutral and clicked on the video.

When he’s done watching the clip, he looked so dreadful that as if he was going to kill someone.

He dialed a number. “Jacob, I’ll send you a video. I need you to find out whether it’s been edited. Hit me back in ten minutes and tell me the result.”

“No. don’t hang up, I want to know immediately.”

“Yeah… alright.”

Jacob was still drinking, the sudden call and Liam’s cold voice gave him a pause. Then he put down his wine hurriedly and dashed upstairs to the third floor of the bar.

It was one of Jacob’s stomping grounds.

He turned on the computer and start authenticating the video.

About ten minutes later.

“Liam, the video is original.”

Jacob’s voice rang again on Liam’s phone. Liam wrinkled his brows. “Are you sure?”

“Affirmative.”

Liam’s voice died off, but still, Jacob could feel his coldness through the phone.

His mouth a tight line, Jacob gave one more glance at the video playing on loop.

He took a deep breath and broke the silence. “Liam. If Rita told you to probe into what happened that year, she wouldn’t leave such solid evidence. She’s not that dumb.”

used to

a matter of life.

as he watched the video. “Indeed. Nobody would be that dumb. Things are getting

so long, all we have found are

it makes it impossible to doubt Rita’s sin.” Liam frowned. “But now all

Rita more

started to believe that somebody set Rita up,

back to square one, what do we do

puff of cigarette. Remembering his conversation with Rita the other day, he said. “Look into Charlotte and

Charlotte?

did Charlotte have

Liam asked, he’s going to do it. “I see. Will

phone, Liam took more puffs, feelings stirring

somebody was behind this, who would it

up and drag

was

culprit

nothing to do with Joey’s

off outside the

realized he was happy, he was

Jacob’s word reverberated in his brain. Liam,

***

Liam drove back home.

Rita’s room as usual but

Nobody’s home?

Where is she?

doing out there so

through him. But it didn’t last long before it was

in the midnight

his eyes away from the magazine he had been reading and took a quick look of the empty room. His brow kept

lost sleep over

Damn.

he heard footsteps coming from

saturated the house

She drank?

collapsed down. She fell

her back, Liam was even more fidgety

them, silent, were

up the dark night, raindrops broke the

“No… please.”

Rita’s painful whining, fear

was suddenly wide

he didn’t do anything but look at her