Chapter 66

Chapter 66

“It's really them,” Elijah uttered while reviewing the documents that the detective brought.

I was in awe, or perhaps in despair. My eyes were stuck in nowhere. I couldn't say a single word after he told us the new suspects.

Lily and Lucas. They were both close in my heart. I have been with them my entire life and they have witnessed everything that I have been through. It's not just that, Freya is also their friend. We are all damn friends and yet one of them might be the culprit.

“Now we have three suspects: your mother, Lily and Lucas.” The detective said while my entire world is already colliding. I wanted to prepare myself, but I couldn't. No matter who it is, it would surely shatter me to the point that I might not know how to stand up again. All my life, I thought we were not just friends but a family that I never had.

“Only one of them is the suspect,” Elijah uttered, trying to crack the puzzle.

“As of now, all I can do is to watch them closely. You should do that as well, especially you, Faith. You're the closest one to them,” they both glanced at me while I couldn't yet process everything.

“That would be dangerous,” Elijah quickly said when I couldn't say a thing.

“Of course. Once they found out that you're digging this up, the culprit might target you next,” he smirked and shook his head. I can't believe that he could act this cool beyond this.

“I can handle them,” I replied.

“That's too dangerous, Fai—”

“I said, I can handle them, Elijah.” I said firmly, even though I have no idea what to do.

“Well, then, I gotta go.” The detective already stood up and grabbed his hat before he saluted the two of us and left my office.

“How did their fingerprints end up on that car?” I glanced at Elijah who was looking to nothing with those thoughts filling his head.

That got me thinking as well. It only means that they came there before the accident. One had a motive and one who's innocent.

“Don't tell this to anyone,” I said. Now, I captured his eyes.

“My mother is still the prior suspect here,” I added. I am not letting her go until it's proven that she's innocent from this.

“We'll see, Faith.” He said as if he was confident that my mother is confident.

“Why do you keep siding with them, Elijah?” I asked. I couldn't help but ask him that. Is he not even mad that they were the reason why we lost our child?

His eyes remained at me like he didn't have to think at all.

“Because I had the same pain as them, Faith. Just like them, I was wrong…we were blinded by our rage and grief,” those eyes were communicating towards me again, but I refused to respond.

I looked away and came back to my desk.

“Why did you kiss Brian when you're not in love with him?” That made me pause. I froze on my seat before I shifted my eyes to him. He was only wearing those blank eyes at me.

How did he know that I was not in love with Brian when I witnessed how I put him in despair earlier? I was so sure that I broke him with that kiss.

“I'm in love with him,” I still lied.

“Your eyes couldn't even speak it, Faith.” I crumpled my hands on the table while I remained looking at him.

“You didn't look the same way you looked at me before,” he added, reminding me of how crazy I was to him.

“I already proved it to you, Elijah. The kiss was enough to prove that I am not in love with you anym—”

“Stop lying to yourself, Faith.” He went in front of me, placed his hands on the desk and ate the huge distance from the two of us.

“Those eyes, they were full of rage and pain, but the love you had for me before is still there…I still see it, Faith.” At that very moment where I was hating him even more, my chest betrayed me again. I felt my heart pounding once again, the thing that I didn't feel to Brian.