Brettley sniffed. “It smells strongly of blood.”
Smells of blood?
Bethan furrowed her brows and tried to sniff hard. The air truly had a thick scent of blood.
Bethan was instantly alarmed!
Would Jason have….
Jude, next to Bethan, also could not help but worry. Although Bonnie was just a distant relative, the Craig family had gone through such an ordeal previously. At that moment, Bonnie was the only heir left in the entire Craig family.
If Bonnie were to also die…
The Craig family line would have died.
At that moment, one of Jude’s men bent down. He skillfully tossed a dash of powder on the ground.
Soon, the powder turned pink. “Reaction to blood.”
The man furrowed his brows, lifted his head, and looked at Jude. “Sir, don’t worry, the person that we are looking for is still fine.”
He pointed at the powder that changed color on the ground.
“When I smelt blood just now, I thought that something was off. It did not smell like fresh blood, more like the blood that has been there for a long time. Pouring the powder on the ground, we did find signs of blood that had been washed away by water.”
He followed the trail of blood and looked at the door crack.
“It looks like it came from there. If it’s not fresh blood, it would most likely be that someone has died here previously.”
Bethan was stunned and subconsciously took a step back.
Upon hearing that Bonnie was probably not dead, Jude furrowed his brows. He directly got someone to listen to the movements in the room. In the end, they planned to break the door and intrude.
The few trained men in black directly crashed the door open and rushed in with the speed of lightning. They apprehended Jason who was sharpening his knife.
Once the door was kicked open, a strong scent of blood wafted to their noses.
Bethan and Jude furrowed their brows at the same time.
The two of them turned back to cover their noses before turning around once again and looking into the room.
The room was in a miserable state, so much so that Bethan could not help but gag.
On the sofa, Jason was being pinned by someone. He struggled.
Opposite the sofa on a chair, Bonnie was being tied up in the chair.
In between the sofa and chair…
Two dead bodies were neatly placed there. An adult and a child.
The adult’s head was smashed by a heavy object. It was extremely bloody. The child’s body was stabbed in the chest with a knife.
The entire floor was covered in fresh blood. It was from the two bodies. Most of the blood had already dried up.
Bethan could vaguely tell that these two bodies were Jason’s wife and child. The ones that Zach has shown her previously.
The scene was too tragic. Bethan clutched her chest and gagged, leaning against the entrance.
Jude was not any better compared to Bethan.
However, after all, he is still a man. He ordered his men to apprehend Jason and let Bonnie go while getting others to make a police report.
This involved human lives. This was not something a small influential figure like him could easily handle.
Jude tugged on Bethan’s sleeves and pulled her to the corridor.
Unfortunately, the corridor also smelled of blood. In the end, he helplessly dragged Bethan to the staircase.
The two of them shared a bottle of water before slowly coming to their senses.
Jude sat on the staircase and smiled at Bethan helplessly.
“This is the first time I’ve encountered such things. I find it hard to accept. It’s a little embarrassing.”
Bethan sighed and sat down next to Jude. “Likewise.”
This was also her first time seeing such a scene.
The two of them rested for a long while. Bethan furrowed her brows and looked at Jude.
“You said just now that this is your first time witnessing such a scene?”
Jude nodded.
“How could that be? “
Bethan chuckled lightly, “You are friends with Brettley, shouldn’t this be common for you?”
Jude was silent for a moment.
After a while, he smiled. “Do you have a misunderstanding against Brettley, or against his friends?”
In all honesty, whether it was him or Brettley, they only reasonably played a few tricks while doing business. That was all.
None of them had ever done vicious things like murder!
Bethan raised her brows. “Am I wrong?”
She held the bottle with both hands and looked at the white wall in front of her closely. Her gaze seemed to have penetrated through the walls into the distance.
“Jason is a murderer trained by Brettley, don’t you know that?”
Jude looked at Bethan confusedly, “How is that possible?”
He looked at Bethan’s face strangely. “You saw it too. When my men rushed forward, Jason could not even react in time. A person like him being a murderer? You overestimate him.
“The bodyguards by Brettley’s side are all retired special forces. Any one of them could beat Jason up badly. Brettley training Jason to be a murderer? What are you dreaming about?”
Bethan harrumphed coldly at Jude’s words.
“Of course, what you said makes sense, but the truth is…”
Bethan sneered, “Six years ago, Brettley hired him to knock me off the bridge.”
The memory of that day was still fresh on her mind.
Bethan sighed, “Actually, I also don’t understand why Brettley wanted me dead. Was it because I found out about his affair with Cynthal?”
The more Jude heard, the more confused he was. He turned to look at Bethan.
“You said that on the day of your accident six years ago it was because you found out about Cynthal and Brettley’s affair, that was why Brettley and Cynthal hired Jason to kill you?”
Bethan nodded. “It’s the truth.”
She could never forget this forever.
The Lord knew, when her life was hanging by the thread and she was instinctively grabbing onto the railing of the bridge, she heard Jason called Brettley.
When she heard Jason promised Brettley on the phone that he would make sure she died…
She was in extreme despair.
At that time, it was the time when she loved Brettley the most.
She happily got pregnant with his child. She wanted to expand their family and wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
Everything that day was like an ax, chopping away the tree of her love and her future.
It completely split her world and Brettley’s in half. “What truth?”
Jude looked at Bethan, finding it rather humorous.
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