Jim strode into the lobby and frowned, glancing at the hallway as he signed the visitation forms to visit Luna. "Why are they crying so early in the morning?"The policeman let out a sigh and replied in a low voice, "They're the family members of the murder victim which your sister is involved in, and they just got in this morning."I hear that she was the only child and had always been the pride of the family. Both her parents are old now and no longer in the best health. Who would've thought that…"The policeman sighed again. "What a pity."Jim's hand, which was holding the pen, stiffened when he heard this.A split second later, he, too, let out a sigh and continued filling in the form.When he finally finished, both of Cheryl's parents had stopped crying.When Jim left the room, he bumped into Joshua, bringing Cheryl's parents to meet with the chief officer in charge of their cases.The two elders had to be propped up by Joshua and Lucas as they walked.Cheryl's father was
Seeing the glimmer in Luna's eyes disappear, Jim sighed, took out a contract from his pocket, and placed it in front of Luna. "I didn't manage to sleep even a wink last night. After settling everything here, I returned to Landry Group to familiarize myself with everything that has happened and how the company's situation is now."He lifted his head to stare at Luna. "The situation is far more complicated than I had expected."Heather was a total idiot. Under Malcolm's influence, she had tied all of Landry Group's supply chains together with Quinn Group's to double their profits, but this also meant that if one of us were to go bankrupt, the other would go down with them."I'm sure you must still remember what happened to Quinn Group last night."Jim pushed the contract closer to Luna and said, "Because of this, Landry Group is on the verge of bankruptcy as well. I have to first help both Landry and Quinn Group tide over this before I can untie both of the corporation's bonds."The
Joshua curled his lips into a smirk. "What a change of heart."Over the past year, every time Joshua and Luna met, whether at Tea Cottage or Luna's current residence, Joshua had approached her first.However, since she was in jail, she was the one initiating their meeting instead."There's no change of heart." Jim glanced impassively at the elderly couple behind Joshua. "It's natural that Luna would want to see you, considering you were the one who persuaded Cheryl's parents into framing her for murder."Jim had deliberately lowered his voice when he said this, but to his surprise, both of Cheryl's parents still overheard this.Mrs. Martin widened her eyes in shock when she heard this. She immediately stormed over to Jim, dragging Mr. Martin behind her, and yelled, "What on earth are you talking about? How dare you say we're framing Luna?"She pointed at the surveillance footage on the police officer's screen and said, sobbing, "Everything has been recorded through security foota
Joshua did not expect Jim to toss the question over to him.He narrowed his eyes and said impassively, "I believe only the results of the police's investigation."Jim sneered as he wiped away the blood trickling out of the corner of his lips. "I know that too, but I'm asking you that as Luna's ex-wife, the father of Luna's four children, do you, Joshua Lynch, think that Luna could have killed Cheryl, the woman that posed no threat to her at all whether relationship or career-wise?""What do you mean, she posed no threat to Luna's relationship or career-wise?" Cheryl's parents could not believe this at all.Mrs. Martin tried to release herself from Joshua's grip as she glared at Jim. "Luna clearly killed Cheryl because she didn't think she'd be able to compete against her when trying to win President Lynch's heart! How dare you even say she posed no threat to Luna? You're talking nonsense!"Seeing that Mrs. Martin was about to be freed of Joshua's grasp and lunge toward Jim, two po
"However, you have no right to impinge upon my freedom."With that, he strode over to the nearest police officer and said, "Give me a visitation form."Mr. and Mrs. Martin exchanged a glance, and a hint of displeasure flashed through their eyes.Their daughter had died because she had attended a wedding with Joshua Lynch. However, this man had no intention of bearing the responsibility of this and even stopped them from beating up a member of the murderer's family!Regardless, they knew that they did not have the right or ability to fight with Joshua on this.Therefore, the elderly couple could not do anything apart from watching quietly as Joshua disappeared into the visitation room after filling in the form."Sir, Madam." One of the police officers approached them, smiling. "As for the dead body, if you have successfully identified it as your daughter, you'd better bring the body for cremation as soon as possible. Now that it's about to turn summer soon, the police station can'
Joshua's words were just as cold as his tone.Luna furrowed her brows as she stared at the man before her.All of a sudden, she realized that she did not understand this man as well as she thought.She had always thought he loved and cared about her.Even when Jim told her what he had said, she still thought that Jim was exaggerating and that Joshua could not possibly be unaware of how bad the living conditions in prison were.If he cared about her, he would not subject her to such suffering.However, what Joshua had said felt like a slap to Luna's face.He had said that he would rather she be imprisoned than stand against him.Luna bit her lip and lifted her head to stare at Joshua, not knowing whether to laugh or cry about this. "Joshua, do you think that your vengeance toward the Landry family is more important to me?"Joshua narrowed his eyes and stared at her, smiling. "What do you think? Luna—"He stared at her with a solemn expression. "I had been planning my defeat of
With that, Joshua leaned against the back of his seat elegantly and said, "Don't worry, your time in prison won't be that awful."I'll never let what happened in that mental asylum in Banyan City happen again; I've already asked Luke to find you a few female security guards. Today and tomorrow, they'll be sent into prison under different charges and protect you every single second of the day."Luna could not help feeling suffocated when she heard this.Firstly, this man had sent her into prison under charges of first-degree murder.Secondly, he had arranged for a few female inmates to be sent into prison and look after her.What difference was this from imprisoning her himself?The only difference was that what he was doing was legal.As soon as she thought of this, Luna sneered and stared at Joshua's face coldly. "I'm starting to think that you sent someone to kill Cheryl yourself so that you could send me into jail."The entire room fell silent.Amid the dead silence, Joshua
Lucas was confused to hear this.Joshua had been saying the same thing for the whole day, whether to Cheryl's parents, Jim, or even the police.He had claimed that if Luna refused to return to Banyan City with him, he would let Luna be imprisoned forever.He would not let her out or give her even a small taste of freedom until the Landry and Quinn families were destroyed.All of a sudden, Joshua was saying that he would not let Luna be imprisoned indefinitely for his benefit.Glancing at Lucas' puzzled look, Joshua narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice, "Luna is just one of the suspects in this murder."Even the security guards who witnessed this only saw Cheryl choking Luna before she died, demanding to know why she wanted to kill her, none of them saw Luna assaulting her. She merely struggled, and she didn't even fight back."On top of that, the cops have found a fingerprint that didn't belong to Luna on the murder weapon. Because of this, everyone knows that there is ano