My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Chapter 152

The investor didn't want to cause a scene, so he offered William a large amount of money in hope that

he would just take it and leave the place. But William refused, and he even reported that matter to the

authorities.

At last, the investor was brought away by the police. During the investigation, it was found that the

investor was also involved in bribery and corruption cases. The investor's wife was having a promising

career as a politician. A scandal of that scale would most definitely hurt her reputation. Thus, she

decided to take things to the court, and filed a divorce with him. She also presented a few pieces of

evidence gathered from the illegal acts that her husband had done over the decades to court.

With the evidence present, the court sentenced the investor accordingly to his crime. The court also

ordered him to return the assets he earned from his illegal acts. The investor, who had lost everything,

took his life while in prison.

It was at that time that I found out the investor was actually Aaron's biological father. I also learned that

his birth mother passed away due to lung cancer in the same year Carol took him under her care.

After his father's death, Aaron's personality shifted to the worst. He was a quiet child before. But ever

since his father's wrongdoings were revealed, other kids in the alley took advantage of that, and they

would beat him up just because his father was the bad guy. The funding Carol received for taking care

of him was also stopped indefinitely following the investor's death.

As a child, how he viewed the world was based on what he was told. Everyone around him hated him

and bullied him because of his father, and it pushed him even further from the others.

Aaron began to shift his attention to the stray cats and stray dogs in the alley instead. He would kill,

abuse, or poison them. He would even cut off the strays' limbs and send those to the children who had

bullied him. Furthermore, he would leave those carcasses in the alley, making the alley stunk so bad to

the point that people could no longer live in the alley.

The factory was already abandoned, and people started moving out from the alley. William was

rewarded for reporting to the authority, and he planned to move out from Hovell with his family.

On the day they planned to move out, William's whole family was hospitalized due to food poisoning.

The abandoned factory's sewage process machine was also blown up on the same day.

The factory was already abandoned for some time, so the explosion didn't garner much interest from

the local residents. On the other hand, after spending three days in the hospital, William and his wife

passed away. His daughter lived, but she became mentally unstable ever since.

Hovell was a small town, and people believed that the couple died due to food poisoning. However, I

knew that Aaron killed them by injecting needles into

their heads.

William's daughter, Monique, didn’t die because of me. I caught Aaron red-handed when I was visiting

Monique in the hospital after my college entrance exam.

Monique survived, but for a long period after that, she would break down every time she saw Aaron.

To be frank, at that time, I wasn't in a better place either. I wasn't even twenty when I saw Aaron taking

away two lives right in front of me. I remembered that I fell ill for a couple of weeks after that day. NôvelDrama.Org: owner of this content.

Monique and I never brought up that topic anymore. We were both young and innocent when Aaron

committed the murders, so we never thought of reporting him to the police. But it was also from that

day onwards, Aaron had deeply traumatized Monique and me.

Two years later after the incident, Coral was diagnosed with lung cancer. I sold the house to treat her

with the money. We then moved to Ucrebury as I further my studies while she received her treatment.

Monique didn't resume her studies in Hovell. And since she had no friends nor family, she came to

Ucrebury with us. She started taking up part-time jobs to cover her living expenses.

As for Aaron's disappearance after the murders, from what I heard, he was a grandson of some

developer from Jarold City, and he went back to live with his actual family.

I hadn't heard from him since then.

As time went by, Monique and I took up part-time jobs while studying. We would often visit Carol in the

hospital. After three years of chemotherapy, Carol couldn't hang on for any longer. We almost used up

the money from selling the old house too.

I thought about giving up my studies as I could never make ends meet if I continued working part-time,

but Carol found out about my plan. She was mad at me for a long time, but it also made her look for

Master Roberts for help.

Carol and Master Roberts had known each other for many years. She told me that she was relieved

knowing that I was going to be under Master Robert's care after she passed away.