CHAPTER 54

With his hands together relying on the desk, and across him it was Edmund, Ace had his head down. He didn’t want to say anything else, and Edmund seemed to pressure him to say what he wanted to hear.

“Look! All I want is to understand the whole story.”

“Why? Why now? Eliza died years ago. It was an accident. Those robbers didn’t measure the consequences of their acts and happened to kill her.”

“It was an accident? How do you know that?”

Ace sighed. It was obvious that Edmund was putting him under so much pressure for him to say what Edmund and, surely, Diego, wanted to hear in order to find someone who could pay for the death of that woman once Diego realized that for the second time the woman he loved was never going to be his.

“You know what? I don’t want to continue with this shit. You want to say things that I don’t know. You want to find a guilty one because of Diego’s remorse. The man can’t overcome the fact the love of his life is no longer with us. Years had gone by since Eliz