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Chapter 87: Pseudo-suspect
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Hunter's pov
It's been exactly five hours, ten minutes, and seventeen seconds since the whole ordeal started at my place. I had been sitting for a long time, watching different news stations break the news of my arrest, after the first station broke the news. It was like I was watching the news like I normally did, because I couldn't believe I was the one on the screen. If I ever imagined this happening to me, it would be because of my situation with Veronica, not because I would be a suspect in a murder case. The funny thing was, I couldn't find it in myself to be angry about it, as I felt this weird happiness, that the reason I was arrested wasn't because Veronica found out what I had done and reported me. It only made me wonder who hated me enough to set me up. I didn't have enemies that would kill someone just to pass me off as the killer. Or did I?
It would seem that I had to rethink who exactly would want my downfall and disgrace, because whoever planned this, wa
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