He moved to the bedside and gently called out. “Grandpa, grandpa.”
“Evan, enough. Your Grandpa has left us. He can’t hear you anymore.”
Just as she spoke, tears rolled down Sophia’s cheeks.
The news was such a shock to him as if he had been struck by lightning. It simply left him bewildered.
How can it be…
With reddened eyes, he turned to look at Sophia. “What happened? H-how did he…?”
Sophia tried to speak, but nothing came out. She didn’t know how to break it to him.
Seeing that she was silent, Lisa stepped out and glared fiercely at him. “Evan, your Grandpa has been killed by your fiancee. Nicole was the one who caused his death.”
Evan’s eyes widened in shock.
Grandpa had just pestered me to marry Nicole a few days ago, and Nicole enjoyed a good relationship with him. So how is she the one that caused Grandpa’s death?
Evan turned towards Nicole, who was at a loss at how to explain. In fact, she didn’t even know where to begin.
She was heading to the Seet Residence to pick up the children. Before she reached, she saw Russell strolling outside.
She wanted to stop and greet Russell. However, before she could approach him, someone attacked her from behind, causing her to lose consciousness.
The moment she awoke, she saw Grandpa lying unconscious beside her with his walking stick in her hand. That was when Jonathan and Sophia arrived at the scene.
“What happened?”
“I-I don’t know.”
When Jonathan helped Russell up, he realized that Russell was no longer breathing.
Also, there were traces of blows to his head.
Shocked, Jonathan stared at the walking stick in her hands. “Y-you…”
She immediately realized that Jonathan suspected that she had hit Russell on his head with the stick, beating him to death.
She quickly dropped the walking stick and shook her head vehemently. “No, it wasn’t me. I didn’t do it.”
Just as she spoke, Jonathan found one of her buttons in Russell’s hand, causing him to be dumbfounded.
It was then that she realized her top was torn, which served to reinforce the idea that she and Russell were in a struggle.
Russell had just returned to the country half a year ago and spent most of his time at Seet Residence. He would go for a walk occasionally and had little contact with the outside world, let alone made any enemies.
Therefore, someone had harmed Russell on purpose. However, if she accused someone else of doing it, no one would believe her. Under such circumstances, there was no way she could explain herself.
“What exactly happened?”
When she didn’t answer, Evan bellowed at the top of his lungs.
At that moment, Susan suddenly arrived. When she saw Evan’s furious yet devastated expression, tears emerged from her eyes.
“How can this be? Why would something like that happen?” she muttered.
She hurried to Sophia’s side to support her. “Mom, Grandpa is such a good man. How can something like this happen to him?”
As she sobbed, she touched the listening device in her pocket discreetly.
The next moment, Nicole’s phone rang. When Nicole saw that it was Levant that called, she hesitated to answer as she wasn’t sure if it was appropriate given the circumstances. If I didn’t, would he hurt Stephen?
Evan suddenly snatched her phone away and walked out of the room. He then answered it.
Instantly, Levant’s voice could be heard from the other end of the line.
“Nicole, we will be leaving in two days. You don’t have to harm anyone from the Seet family to prove your loyalty to me. You really don’t because I trust you.”
Wait… What did he say?
Evan felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He felt as if there was a hole in his heart, and fresh blood was oozing out indiscriminately, suffocating him.
“Nicole, Nicole, what’s wrong?” Levant called out anxiously over the phone.
“What did you say?”
Evan questioned with a solemn voice.
The next moment, he heard Levant reply, “I just wanted to make sure Nicole is safe.”
By the time Nicole rushed out, she saw him standing there, frozen like a statue.
“What happened? What did Levant say?”
