Naya could not accept this and felt that this was strange. How did her brooch end up with Niamh?
However, Niamh immediately saw through Naya’s thoughts. “Are you curious about why your brooch was with me? It’s not strange at all because that’s not your brooch.”
What?
Not hers?
Naya widened her eyes and stared at the brooch between her fingers. This was not hers?
She remembered that when she bought this brooch, it was a limited edition and there were not many socialites or rich women in the upper class who owned it. Plus, there was a custom engraving at the back. How could it not be hers? As she was thinking to herself, Naya suddenly turned the brooch to look at the engraving. To her surprise, the initials engraved on the back were actually Mrs. Graham’s name.
Naya was stunned.
This brooch was actually the fake she gave to Daniel’s mother.
Daniel’s mother also reacted when she looked at the brooch. “I have this brooch too. It looks like the one you gave me back then.”
“That’s right, Mrs. Graham. This brooch is the fake Naya gave you back then. I asked for it from my appraiser friend.”
Niamh explained with a smile, her sharp eyes falling on Naya’s bewildered face.
“Miss Mendez, it’s probably because you had a guilty conscience at the time, so you didn’t notice that this brooch is actually the fake you gave to Mrs. Graham. You didn’t even bother to look at the engraving on the back of the brooch when you saw it. When the brooch showed up in the parking lot, you only had one thought. And that was to take away the incriminating evidence you thought you left behind at the scene.”
As Naya was faced with Niamh’s sharp and domineering accusations, Naya pursed her lips tightly. She did not know how to explain this.
She knew that she had fallen into a trap. Niamh might have prepared an impeccable countermeasure no matter what she said now. If this went on, her crimes would be confirmed. After thinking quickly for a few seconds, Naya pretended to be calm and laughed.
She avoided Niamh’s sharp gaze and looked at the two police officers.
“Officers, I’m willing to cooperate with you to assist in the investigation, but what I want to emphasize is that what Eveline said just now is just her self-righteous speculation. I will not accept these accusations against me. I want to see my lawyer and sue Eveline for slander.”
Naya changed from being passive to active. She then left with the police under the watchful eyes of the public.
As soon as Naya left, Daniel’s mother took the appraisal report from Niamh’s hand and tooka closer look. She felt more and more annoyed as she read through the documents as they were all fakes. She thought that at least one of them would be real, but there was none.
“I didn’t expect this at all,” Daniel’s mother complained extremely unhappily.
“Yeah, the act of deliberately trying to murder someone is really unexpected.” Niamh’s tone became a little more serious. “If Dan really marries such a woman, who knows if she’! come up with a plan to kill you if you piss her off one day?”
?…” Daniel’s mother felt a chill run down her back when she heard this, but she still had to keep calm. “The police haven’t convicted her yet, so how can you insist that Naya was the one who did it? Although she’s unruly and willful, she wouldn’t kill someone. Would you kill someone if you hate them? That’s absurd.”
“It’s absurd that there are people in this world who are genuinely this insane.”
Ava really could not continue to be a bystander anymore. She looked solemnly at Daniel’s mother with a gloomy face.
“I know you don’t like me very much, and you only chose to accept me later because you learned I have a wealthy mother. You can continue to not accept me, but you’re an adult with an IQ, Are you really going to turn a blind eye to the real murderer just because you want to win this fight with me?”
After Ava said these words, her eyes turned red. She loved Daniel so much, but it seemed that Daniel’s mother did not. She seemed to care about her reputation more. Otherwise, why would she still protect Naya?
Daniel’s mother did not speak anymore. Niamh held Ava’s hand to comfort her and found that Ava’s palm was cold.
She wanted to tell Ava that the matter would come to an end soon and that Naya would be charged, but she received incredible news in the afternoon.
Niamh rushed to the police station as soon as she learned of the news.
When she was about to go in, she saw Naya swaggering out of the door followed by an impeccably dressed man who seemed to be a lawyer.
Naya also spotted Niamh at this time. She raised a smug smile and walked to Niamh step by step.
“This is expected of you, Mrs. Waldburg. You’re really well-informed. I think you must be very unhappy to see me standing here now, right? But I’m very happy to see you.”
Naya’s tone was full of irony, and the corners of her mouth were raised in a complacent smile.
“I’ve long said that the police are fair and impartial. I’m innocent and can’t be slandered by someone who claims to have found evidence. Mrs. Waldburg, I understand that you want to help your friend, but the fact is that I didn’t do it.” Naya’s smile became smugger and smugger. She was also looking at Niamh with provocation.
“Mrs. Waldburg, you must be wondering what’s going on, right? If you have any questions, go to the police and they’!l give you the answer.”
Naya smiled and turned back to the lawyer beside her.
“Mr. Luschek, let’s go. Come to my house for dinner tonight. My father said that he has been wanting to change the team of lawyers in our company’s legal department, so he wishes to talk to you about it.”
The lawyer immediately smiled when he heard this. “Thank you for your care, Miss Mendez. I’ll be there.”
Naya nodded in satisfaction and followed the lawyer into a car that had been waiting on the side of the road. She never gave Niamh a chance to refute.
Niamh did not want to waste her breath on Naya either. After she watched Naya get into the car, she turned around and walked into the police station.
Niamh found the two young police officers who took Naya away earlier. After asking them, she found out that Naya was not released on bail. Instead, she came to the police station to assist with the investigation, which meant that Naya was not a suspect.
Niamh did not understand because things seemed to be going off track.
When Niamh wanted to inquire, the senior police officer in charge of the case showed up.
He politely invited Niamh to his office and explained the situation.
“Mrs. Waldburg, our higher-ups are very concerned about this case. We’re even more desperate than you to find out the truth, but Naya Mendez really has nothing to do with this matter.”
“Why do you say that?” Niamh asked, going straight to the point. She handed over the information that she and Kendrick had gathered. “It can be seen from these materials that Naya is the most suspicious person in this case.”
The police officer just smiled politely after listening to Niamh’s words and looking through her information.
“ve already read all these materials, Mrs. Waldburg. Although Naya’s explanation is a little far-fetched, these materials are not strong enough evidence for us to convict her. We have no substantive evidence to prove that Naya was ever in Ava Long’s car, and there’s no evidence to prove that Naya tampered with Ava’s car.”
Niamh’s heart sank at the officer’s answer. When she wanted to ask more in detail, the police officer said he had to take care of some matters and left.
Of course, it was not good for Niamh to continue to get in the way of the officer, but she kept feeling that this was very strange.
Judging from Naya’s reaction at the time, she was definitely the one who tampered with the brakes. Naya’s proud smile just now also revealed her smugness at being able to get away with this. When Niamh walked out of the gate of the police station, she found that it was already late.
The gray sky looked so deserted and hazy without the golden halo of the sunset.
Niamh could not help but think of the scene where she was wrongfully imprisoned. Did she still have to watch as right and wrong became distorted like this? In addition to that, this was happening around her. Ava and Daniel were her good friends, so she had no reason to just be a bystander.
Niamh told Kendrick about it after returning home. Kendrick frowned. +
“It’s indeed strange. Naya was obviously the one who did it but the police let her go so easily,” Kendrick said with a faintly sarcastic smile. “There are really many gray areas in this world.” “Kendrick, do you mean—”
“Nia, don’t worry. Since this incident happened under my nose, I won’t let it go into any gray areas. Don’t worry, I’ll handle it.”
Kendrick held Niamh’s hand, and his gentle eyes were filled with endless doting and caring.
“It makes me feel so distressed to see you running around these past few days because of this incident.”
Niamh smiled slightly. “I have you to pamper and protect me, so I don’t feel tired or troubled at all. But it’s not the case with Ava. We don’t know when Dan will wake up, and I’m really worried seeing Ava looking so lost every day.”
Kendrick was also quite powerless when it came to this. He would help if he could, but now, all he could do was comfort Niamh.
“Nia, trust the doctor. Daniel will emerge out of this peril safely. We haven’t attended his and Ava’s wedding yet, so he won’t stay asleep forever.”
With Kendrick’s words, Niamh suddenly felt less uncomfortable. However, she did not tell Ava about Naya’s supposed innocence for the time being. She was worried that Ava would become more irritable when she found out.
In order not to let Niamh worry about this, Kendrick went to understand the situation in person the next day.
However, he got an even more unexpected result. The gangster who was hired by Chloe suddenly pleaded guilty.
If that man pleaded guilty, it would mean that Naya was innocent.
Kendrick found the person in charge of the case and met the thug who pleaded guilty.
The thug did not know Kendrick but had heard of Kendrick’s name. Therefore, when Kendrick asked him if his confession was true, the man nodded.
“I did it. I broke into the woman’s car and tampered with the brakes. I was the one who did it, alright?”
“Then why did you keep denying it before?” Kendrick’s tone became colder.
“I was afraid. I was afraid I would go to jail if I pleaded guilty,” the man stammered.
Kendrick’s eyes suddenly turned sharp. “Then why are you pleading guilty now?”
“I…” The man paused, a spark of emotion flashing across his face. Then, he stammered, “I didn’t want to do it either. I heard from the police that the victim is very seriously injured and he may never wake up for the rest of his life. After I heard it, I felt very sorry for that man. I have a guilty conscience. I was being tormented every day, so I-I chose to plead guilty in the end…”
Toward the end of the sentence, the man’s voice gradually became softer as if he had really received the condemnation of his conscience. He even looked very guilty.
However, to Kendrick, that did not seem like the case.
He left the police station and made a phone call as soon as he got in the car.
Kendrick’s assistant, Ken, quickly looked into this thug’s connections and relationships as per Kendrick’s orders.
After he found out, Kendrick coincidentally arrived at the company. Ken respectfully handed the information he gathered to Kendrick and reported it to him clearly.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.