Chapter 284

Irene was still unconscious. Ricky had tied her to a pillar, and there was a bomb tethered to her waist.

Isaac glowered when he saw that.

Ricky then showed up with a detonator in one hand, while holding his phone out at Isaac with the other. "Tell me, how did you murder my mother?"

"I didn't," Isaac replied.

"I really doubt that," Ricky laughed coolly. "Why were you there where she died if you didn't? Am I that young and gullible to you?"

"You're young?" Isaac cast him a sideways glance. "Though you're simply immature."

Ricky growled in annoyance. "That doesn't matter. The point is right now, what I say goes."

Isaac did not appear upset. "Of course, though I really want to ask: is my being there proof enough that I did it?"

"Of course," Ricky replied.

Isaac was on the verge of flipping out at Ricky's sense of logic. "I was sent a text. That's why I was there—check my phone if you don't believe it."

Isaac held it out to Ricky, but Ricky could not reach for it since one of his