New beginning: Billionaire love story novel Chapter 276

Claire watched him leave, her gaze steady as the door clicked shut behind him. Once he was gone, she sighed, leaning back on the couch. She picked up a photo on her table, turning it over in her hands.

The photo had been sent to Mr. Montgomery.

As she stared at the image, her mind raced. Who sent it? What was their goal? And more importantly, how had they known about her plans?

Then something clicks inside her mind.

A grin crossed her lips as Claire laughed out loud.

“I can’t believe he went all this way just to ruin me,” she muttered to herself.

Claire got to her feet and made her way over to her desk with the photo in hand. She slid the picture into the shelf and locked it carefully. With a deep breath, she turned her focus back to the task at hand—watching the video that Matthew had sent her.

She sat down in her chair and opened her laptop to play the footage. It wasn't of great quality, nowhere near as sharp as the first clip, but she wasn't about to let that stop her.

The video showed Abigail walking down the dark alley; she was followed by three men. Luckily, there were cameras at each end of the alley, but unfortunately, none were positioned inside the alley itself. The next thing Claire saw was Abigail running out of the darkness, heading right towards the street.

There was panic at every step as Claire winced in horror when the car slammed into her, sending Abigail flying across the street, her body lying dead on the ground. The three men darted away, leaving Abigail behind them.

Claire's hand hovered over her phone, frustration and determination swirling inside her. She dialed Matthew's number, bringing the phone to her ear.

“Claire?” Matthew answered, his voice calm but laced with curiosity. “You've seen the video?”

“I have,” Claire replied, her eyes still stuck to the screen, replaying the moment of impact over and over. “But I watched the video. There's no footage from inside the alley, just the part where she runs out. Why is that?”

Matthew sighed heavily on the other end of the line. “Yeah, unfortunately, there's no surveillance camera positioned in the alley itself. It's a blind spot.”

Claire's face furrowed in a frown as her fingers drummed on the desk and her mind turned over. “This is weird,” she said aloud to herself. “I talked to Alexander earlier at the hospital, and the police had handed him Abigail's stuff. They said that the driver who hit her was already at the police station.”

That driver is just another victim of those three men," Matthew said; his voice conveyed frustration, but understanding. “They probably didn't anticipate her running out in front of traffic like that.”

Claire frowned and played the moment Abigail rushed out into the street, again. “It doesn't look like the driver expected anyone to jump in front of the car, especially with rain. The visibility would have been terrible. But we need to make certain the driver had no connection with those three guys.”

Matthew's voice was musing. “How do you plan to figure that out? They were all wearing masks and hoodies. Going to be quite hard to track them down.”

Still watching the video, something finally caught Claire's eye. She leaned in closer to the screen, pausing the footage.