Without saying anything more, Ethan stood up abruptly and left the interrogation room.

Now, he understood everything.

The pieces of the puzzle were coming together. If Charis was the mastermind behind everything that had happened, then everything made sense.

Back in Seacisco where everything started, the only family that was powerful enough to do all those things without leaving a trace was the Turners.

And the Turner family had some connections in Barnes as well. Although it couldn’t compare to how many connections they had in Seacisco, money made the world go round. It wouldn’t have been hard for Charis to clean up her trail.

Ethan had thought that Charis would stop after he warned her, but he was wrong.

He was ruthless to anyone who crossed the line, even if the culprit was his former classmate and partner.

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immediately stood up and approached

she asked anxiously. Her big,

shopping. She absent-mindedly wandered around the mall with Elizabeth for a while

him get out of jail. It was Charis.” Ethan shrugged off his coat and put his arm around Janet’s shoulders. “I

slightly. Hearing Charis’s name, she couldn’t

she really hate me

already married Ethan and everyone

relationships, but even I never thought she’d do all these horrible things,” Ethan said in a

same as how she tackled business—she’d do everything she had

stuck out her lower lip, glancing at Ethan

at herself. She

deep breath and calmed herself down. “You two have known each other a

take it as encouragement to keep going further. You’ve been in danger so many times. First, the car accident. Then the kidnapping. Maybe she was behind all those. What’s terrible about all these is that she never has to get her own hands dirty. She uses others to do her dirty work and then they take the fall.” Ethan’s tone grew gloomy and his eyes darkened. “She has tried to hurt you too many

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