When she saw the people around her whispering about her among themselves, Naya panicked. “ Mrs. Graham, it’s been so many years and you know me the best. I like Dana lot, so why would I do something that would upset Dan? Even though I don’t like Ava, she’s still the woman Dan loves. At most, I would just throw a tantrum. I wouldn’t do anything illegal!”
After Daniel’s mother heard that, she nodded. Her face darkened as she looked at Niamh in dissatisfaction. Then, she also looked coldly at Ava.
“Don’t make a fuss at a place where Dan is resting. I watched Naya grow up and I know what she’s like the best. She wouldn’t do something so immoral. Go away now. This is so annoying.” After Daniel’s mother said that in annoyance, she wanted to bring Naya back to the ward. Suddenly, she heard Niamh say sarcastically.
“Mrs. Graham, if you’re so clear on Naya’s character, why did you take the branded goods Naya gave you for appraisal?”
?..” Mrs. Graham blushed as she quickly stopped in her tracks.
Naya was also stunned. She had no idea that Daniel’s mother had taken the jewelry, bags, and clothes she gave her all these years for appraisal. If she took them for appraisal, then Naya would be exposed. None of those branded goods she gave Daniel’s mother in the past few years were authentic.
Daniel’s mother was worried and embarrassed. She immediately denied it. “What nonsense are you talking about? What did I take for appraisal? I did no such thing.”
“No?” Niamh asked slowly. “I have a copy of the appraisal report. Everything is clearly stated here, and the results of every appraisal are here. I got this from a friend of mine who’s an appraisal expert. She knew I] was coming here today so she asked me to bring this to you.”
After Niamh said that, she took out a few folded pieces of paper from her bag. “Are you sure you don’t want to look at the results, Mrs. Graham?”
Even though Daniel’s mother denied it, she still wanted to know the results of the appraisal.
She was very dissatisfied because that appraisal expert did not tell her at once when she got the results but instead, she asked Niamh to send the report to her.
Naya’s eyes also unconsciously landed on the papers Niamh was holding. This time, she had no idea whether Niamh was deliberately faking this.
Niamh did not give Naya the chance to guess either, and she did not let Daniel’s mother feel conflicted for too long. She immediately took the papers in her hand and showed the results to them.
The eyes of Daniel’s mother widened as the items listed on the papers were all the items she sent for appraisal. There were 33 items, not one item more or one item less.
Then, she noticed the results of the appraisal. What shocked her was that there was not a single ‘ authentic’ remark on the report. All of them were fake!
Of course, Naya saw the results as well. Her face was just like Daniel’s mother’s. It immediately turned dark, and she looked very embarrassed. “Mrs. Graham, you’re seeing this too, right? The jewelry and bags Naya gave you are all fakes. She only did that to get on your good side. At the same time, you don’t know anything about branded goods, so you’ve been helping her save the cost of flattering you.”
Niamh was straightforward, and Daniel’s mother became burning hot after hearing that. She was a rich woman from an aristocratic family, yet she was called stupid in front of everyone. How would she be able to save her dignity now?
What embarrassed Daniel’s mother even more was that she had worn the jewelry and bags Naya gave her to a lot of upper class parties and dinners.
When she thought about how the things she wore were all fake and the other rich women might have been laughing at her behind her back for wearing fakes, she wanted so badly to crawl into a hole. That was so embarrassing!
Naya noticed Mrs. Graham’s expression. She wanted to maintain her image. Of course, she would not admit it so easily.
“Eveline, what kind of appraisal expert is your friend? She got the results yet didn’t send them directly to the client but instead, she handed them to an irrelevant person like you. Who would dare visit an appraisal expert who leaks her clients ’ details to others? Also, the branded bags and jewelry I gave to Mrs. Graham are all from the stores. How can they be fakes? I think your appraisal expert friend is the fake one.” °
Naya denied it and turned her head to try to comfort Daniel’s mother.
“Mrs. Graham, don’t trust what Eveline said. She’s here to speak on behalf of Ava, so she must be saying that to drive a wedge between us. The things I gave you are all authentic. The only fake thing is the appraisal report.”
Naya insisted, then looked at Niamh with an arrogant and disdainful look.
“Eveline, don’t try to drive a wedge between me and Mrs. Graham. Don’t try to slander me. Even if I had really broken the law, you have no right to criticize me here. The police would’ve been here for me a long time ago.”
“Naya Mendez.”
After Naya finished quibbling, a righteous voice suddenly came from among the crowd.
Naya was stunned and did not know who was calling her name. She looked in the direction where the voice came from and saw two police officers in uniform walking over to her while pushing through the crowd.
Naya was staring blankly ahead like she was ina daze. Her arrogant confidence from the previous second was immediately blown away by the wind i nthat instant.
Niamh saw the change in Naya’s expression and smiled. “Just as you wish, the police are here for you.”
?..” When she heard this, Naya backed away in a panic. At that moment, she felt her footsteps getting light.
The expressions of Mrs. Graham and Ava changed at the same time. It was because the police had really come for Naya.
“Naya, we have enough evidence to prove that you’ re involved in an attempted murder case. Please go back with us for questioning.”
The police were stern. Of course, they were not joking with Naya.
When Naya heard the words ‘attempted murder’ and could not keep her cool anymore.
Especially when the people around her were looking at her with doubt. She was feeling more and more flustered now.
“W-What’s happening? What did they say? Naya is related to an attempted murder case? Who did she want to kill? Who was killed?” Daniel’s mother was confused.
“She wanted to kill Ava but the person who got into the accident was Ava’s boyfriend, Daniel,” the police officer told her the whole situation. When Daniel’s mother heard this, she immediately understood what was going on. However, she still did not believe it.
“I understand what you mean. You’re trying to tell me that Naya is the one who tampered with that woman’s car, right?” Daniel’s mother pointed at Ava. It was obvious that she was still siding with Naya. “What evidence do you have that points to Naya being the one who tampered with the car?”
When Naya saw that Daniel’s mother was still siding with her, she felt much calmer. However, this calm was quickly broken by Niamh.
“You want evidence? That’s simple. The evidence is with me.” Niamh’s straightforward statement caused Naya’s expression to freeze. People who had done something wrong would naturally feel guilty. Naya watched as Niamh walked in front of her. She felt as though her heartbeat was going to go out of control.
“Naya, do you still remember where you went yesterday?” Niamh smiled faintly.
Naya gritted her teeth. “Where I went is none of your business!”
“It’s okay if you don’t want to answer or if you’ve forgotten. I have surveillance footage that can tell everyone where you went and what you did yesterday.”
As Niamh said that, she quickly took a laptop from Kendrick’s hands. Then, she opened the surveillance footage.
Ava immediately went over to take a look. She saw Naya in the parking lot downstairs of her apartment. Plus, Naya was also next to her parking space.
However, Naya was not the only one in the footage. Niamh and Kendrick were there too. After Niamh and Kendrick left, Naya snuck out from behind the wall and walked straight to Ava’s parking space.
Naya seemed to be looking for something around the parking space. After she picked something up, she immediately fled the scene.
Naya looked just like a sneaky thief while she was doing that.
Naya was utterly shocked when she saw the footage.
This angle was not from the surveillance camera in the parking lot. This was clearly from a dashcam of a car!
Niamh noticed the changes in Naya’s expression and said, “You didn’t expect this, right? Kendrick and I were waiting for you in the parking lot.”
?.. Naya was stunned. She wanted to argue, “I-I don’t know what you’re talking about. I also don’t know why you two were waiting for me there. I-I dropped something, so that’s why I went back to look for it! It’s that simple! Officer, I’m not lying. I really went back to get something back.”
“May I know what you went back to get?” Niamh asked.
Naya quickly took out the brooch she picked up from the gutter of the parking lot from her bag. “I went back to get this! I dropped my brooch there. I’m not lying.”
“But, how did your brooch get there?” 2
“But, how did your brooch get there?”
Naya was stumped by Niamh’s question. At that moment, she was speechless. Her jaw dropped open and she did not know what to say. Yeah, how did her brooch get there? Why was it in Ava’s parking space downstairs of Ava’s apartment?
Naya’s train of thought was disrupted at that moment. She did not know what to say anymore. However, if she kept silent, they would think that she was tacitly admitting to this.
She would not allow herself to be brought away like this.
“Heh.” Naya scoffed after she came back to her senses. “Is it strange for my belonging to have dropped there? I walked past that place recently and wanted to have a cup of coffee all of a sudden, so I stopped my car in the parking lot to go toa cafe nearby. I must have dropped my brooch then.” :
“Then may I know which cafe you went to?” the police officer asked.
Naya rolled her eyes and continued to explain, “I stopped the car and took a few steps. Suddenly, I didn’t want to drink coffee anymore, so I drove back.”
Naya’s explanation sounded very far-fetched and was not convincing at all.
However, Naya knew that the parking lot in Ava’s apartment was pretty run-down and most of the surveillance cameras were just there for decoration. One did not need a resident’s access card to enter the apartment’s parking lot, so even though her explanation sounded fake, no one could expose her. |
However, Niamh seemed to know that Naya would come up with such an outrageous explanation. She smiled and said.
“Miss Mendez, you must have remembered it wrong. The brooch in your hand didn’t end up in the parking lot that way.”
When Naya heard this, she felt that Niamh might have obtained some more evidence. She pretended to be calm. “Eveline, what are you trying to say now?”
“Nothing. I just want to tell you that the reason the brooch was in the gutter is that I was the one who put it there.”
?.” When Naya heard this answer, she was stunned. “Eveline, what did you say? I accidentally dropped it there. How did you—”
“I placed it there.” Niamh did not want to argue with her, so she opened the laptop once again and played the footage she captured before Naya came to the parking lot.
The scene showed that Kendrick was the one taking the video. One could see Niamh holding Naya’s brooch as she squatted and put it in the gutter. Then, she tried to adjust the position of the brooch in the gutter.
When Naya saw that, her face turned dark. +
She did not expect this to be a trap!
She fell into the trap Niamh and Kendrick had set for her.
“Do you see it now? Do you see how the brooch got there?” Niamh asked with a smile.
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