Chapter 87: Do You Want To See This?
When Arianna got bored waiting in the car, she picked up the envelope from the co-driver’s seat and took the things out, and looked at them. She hadn’t seen the writings of her grandfather and father for many years, and they seemed a bit strange to her now. As she was turning over in her father’s notebook, she found a thin piece of paper sandwiched inside. It was Chester’s repayment receipt for a large amount of borrowing.
This receipt might have expired after many years, but Arianna gave him a call and asked whether he needed her to send it back to him.
Chester said, “Oh, then please.”
Arianna waited for a long time before she turned the car around and drove back. She drove slowly and saw that the whole community here was about to be demolished and renovated. The doors and windows of several buildings had been dropped, and the small shops along the street were mostly locked. There was a bit of sorrow in her heart.
On this early winter afternoon, there were few cars on the road. The guys at the end of the street were still playing poker. The two fighting dogs were gone. About 200 meters away from her, Chester was waiting for her on the side of the road ahead.
All of a sudden, two motorcycles roared past her car. They appeared suddenly. She did not even see them in the rearview mirror. She had a bad feeling about it and stared ahead.
In fact, the following things only happened for a moment, but everything in her eyes was like slow motion. The first motorcycle ran straight toward Chester and crashed him instantly. When Chester’s body flew a few meters away, another car ran him over.
Arianna slammed on the brakes and wanted to take out a pen and record the plate numbers of the two motorcycles, but she saw they did not have plates at all. The two motorcycles turned into the small alley and disappeared instantly.
Arianna dialed 911 and reported the murder, and then stopped the car ten meters away from Chester. She got off and ran to him and knelt down to check his injury. The two waiters in the cake shop and those guys playing poker also rushed over to them.
Chester was still awake, his limbs twitching, his right hand struggling in the air, trying to take something out of his pocket.
The people around Chester were in a panic. Someone called the police, and someone called the ambulance, but no one dared to move Chester.
Arianna whispered to him, “What do you want? Need me for help?”
Chester continued to struggle with his right hand, trying to take something out of his pocket.
Arianna gently took out the things in his right pocket. There was only one old wallet, and there was a photo of three family members of Chester in the wallet.
Arianna put the photo close to his eyes, “Do you want to see this?”Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.
Chester’s eyes were fixed on the photo for a while, then he looked at her again. His lips moved, but he could not speak out. His body continued to twitch with an extremely painful look.
Arianna gently stuffed the wallet into his right hand.
The sharp sound of a siren came from a distance. Chester’s hand trembled, and the wallet fell to the ground. Things came out of the wallet, blown by the wind and scattered.
Arianna helped pick up the few pages of cash and some bills on the ground and put them back in the wallet.
There was a pool of blood under his body, and an invoice fell on the blood. When she picked it up with her fingertips, she saw a piece of business card-sized white card paper under the invoice document. Her eyes gazed upon that paper.
Then she put the wallet back in Chester’s pocket.
The police blocked the scene, and the ambulance arrived very quickly. Chester took his last breath on the road and did not leave a word.
As the first eyewitness, Arianna cooperated with the police investigation and kept making a transcript until deep into the night. During the period, she received a phone call from Charles. He said he missed her a lot and he would return to the state the next day.
She did not say that she was in the police station, only hurriedly said that there was a little urgent matter and that she would call him back.
She had thought that Charles’s return date was the day of their breakup. She never expected this creepy development.
Arianna told the police truthfully that she had known the deceased for many years, why she went to the store to pick up something and why she returned and saw the process of the crime. She also mentioned that she helped take out the family photo from the wallet and showed Chester. Of course, she did not mention the extortion thing.
In the face of the police’s inquiry, she looked calm and spoke slowly, but her palms and back were sweating. If the police used the lie detector on her at the moment, the test results would probably indicate that she was the murderer.
The room was a bit cold. She put her hand into her jacket pocket and took out that piece of white card paper. The blood on the paper had already dried up, but she felt that the paper was still hot with blood.
She stared at that white card paper and saw several sets of letters and numbers written with a pen. With her experience, she instantly figured out those letters and numbers were the names of a foreign bank and a pair of accounts and passwords.
While at the crime scene before the arrival of the police, she pinned the card paper into the palm of her hand when she was unattended and hid it in her pocket secretly. She could do the whole set of actions to hide the physical evidence among a group of people just because she learned a few magic tricks from a colleague a few days ago.
The material and style of that card paper seemed to be foreign, and the letters written on it showed masculine strength.
When these elements came together, she only thought of one person at that moment: Travis Cooper.