Chapter 34 The Body Is Missing
“She left,” Idris said, his dark eyes still fixed on me. This man was much taller than me, and talking to him with my head tilted back made my neck hurt, so I simply avoided any further conversation.
I tore open the hydrogen peroxide and cotton balls to treat his wound, which was indeed deep. I could see the many layers under his skin split open. I could not help but gasp inwardly–that seemingly tiny life was really very sharp. If it had been a ⠀man attacking, I feared that Idris‘ hand would have been forever ruined.
He hissed in pain, perhaps because I had been too rough.
old coldly. “Bear with
I paused for a moment, looked up at him with a dark face, and the pain. I’m not Moore. I can’t give you any sweet, soft words ”
He just smiled silently at me.
I did not want to talk to him any more than necessary. I quickly treated his wound and cleaned up the trash, then listened in to the police officers nearby.
I could not help but look over when I heard voices from their direction, only to see a mutilated puppy lying in the opened trunk. It had probably been there for days and was somewhat decomposed.
The police officer looked puzzled after checking the scene and frowned at me. “Ms. Scott, what’s going on here?”
I was also baffled and glanced at Benett’s wife. She seemed to be in a daze, looking at the dead dog in the trunk and muttering to herself, “He deserved to die, he deserved to die…”
I could not figure out what was happening. I repeated to the police what the woman had told me earlier in the cafe, saying helplessly, “I don’t get it either. She didn’t seem to be lying at the time, which is why I asked you to come here and check.”
After looking over the scene, the police officer said to another officer, “Take her statement, and try to get in touch with the person she claims was killed to verify the situation.”
The other officer nodded and then questioned Benett’s wife. After the police interviewed her, I learned that this woman’s name was Sophia Sanchez and she was in her forties. If not for learning her age, I would have always thought she was just in her thirties as she looked so young.
Regarding the murder and the hidden b*dy in the car, she told the police the same story she told me in the cafe, but when the police asked her where the b*dy was, she kept repeating that it was in the trunk.
In the end, I got the news that Benett had gone on a business trip to Tully City five days ago and had not returned. I got his contact number from the front desk, but the call did not go through.
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