“I'm the wife of Liam's brother, we adopted Zoe Amethyst Riego, because her mother died, and her father was mentally ill,” the woman in front of me stated.
Her knees were trembling, and her voice was shaky. She's nervously looking around, and it seems like she's checking for something.
Harvey was on my side, while Zhian was in his usual position, he was leaning at the wall, why his hands were on his pocket, and he's closing his eyes.
“We saved Amethyst from maltreatment from her father, and we left her mother at her father's hand,” she added. I'm currently recording it.
She might say some important details to help us to solve this crime. She looked at the ground and mumbled under her breath.
“I don't want to keep it from myself, I don't want to keep it until my last breath, my conscience won't let me sleep,” she said with an airy tone.
“My husband was involved in something illegal act, he's an assistant of the owner of the company who was stealing some money from their partners.” I gasped when I heard her statements.
I examined her, and she's having some dark circles under her eyes, and it seems like she can't wash her body properly.
“To cut the story, he witnessed all the transactions and killings, and now I don't think where is he, I don't have any connections from him,” she murmured.
I looked at Harvey, he's just looking intently, and listening to her voice.
“Also for Liam, I didn't get some information, or some connections to him, please help me,” she pleaded. Some of the tears are streaming on her face.
“My husband said that his boss was commanded all the witnesses to be killed, except for my husband, about the students who were poisoned, they are the sons and daughters of their business partner who disagree with them.”
My heart was pounding, and it seems like it's going to throw up, some of the goosebumps were crawling to my body.
“Lucky for you, Mister, you survived from the poison, besides the cyanide gas, they put some acid on the drinks for the students, I assumed that you didn't drink that,” she said while glancing in Harvey's direction.
“My husband never mentioned his boss name and identity, but I'm pretty sure that his boss was might be somewhere, it's either they are at your side, or they are watching everyone!” she exclaimed.
I cover my mouth and gasp for air. My eyes widened, and my heartbeat is racing like I ran a thousand miles.
She became silent for a moment, “The camera! You can use it! There are some videos from Liam, and some of them are proof, it can lead you to their boss!”
She holds my hand, and she can't control her sobs, her shoulder slumped down, and she began to pull her hair.
She gasped, and be silent for a while, she's staring at the back, and her jaw dropped.
She pointed in Zhian's direction, “You! You killed my daughter! You killed, Amethyst!”
Huh? I felt like there's a lump in my throat, and I don't know what will I'm going to do.
Harvey holds her shoulder, “Ma'am please be calm, maybe it's your false accusation to Zhian, he's the boyfriend of your daughter, so please be calm,” he advises.
I observed Zhian's reaction, he's just looking at Ma'am Riego, he's giving it a blank stare. After a few minutes, Ma'am Riego became silent for a moment.
I stood up and went to their kitchen. Sudden nausea I felt from my stomach.
Likewise, I hold my stomach and covered my mouth. It's disgusting! There's rotten food at the table, and there's some worm on it.
I looked at the sink, there's a web on the plates, and cups, it seems like she doesn't have some time to wash, and clean it.
Even the floor was filled with dust, and the furniture was old and broken. It seems like she threw the vases, and glasses because of frustration, and stress.
I searched for the cleaned cup, but unfortunately, I didn't see one. I sighed and went to the fridge.
A rotten smell reached my nose, and it feels like my food is going to throw up from my stomach.
I closed the fridge immediately and went to the bathroom. I covered my mouth, and nose when I reached the bathroom.
I gasped, and my food was spilled out from my mouth. I heard someone run immediately in my direction.
“What happened?” The chills crawled to my arms and neck. I heard his blank, and cold voice.
I glanced at the ground, “Let's go,” he said, and he began to walk away from the kitchen. I followed him until we came back to the living room.
After a while, we bid goodbye to Ma'am Riego. We said that we will be going to pass it to the police station, so we can have a backup for searching for the camera.
We are currently at to road to go to the police station when all of a sudden, Zhian insisted that he needs to go down.
I shrugged my shoulder and glanced at Harvey, he's just looking at the rearview mirror, waiting for Zhian to go out of the car.
When he had already went out of the car, Harvey took a deep breath.
When he disappeared from our sight, Harvey started to drive. The silence conquered inside the car.
We arrived at the police station, we requested an attorney to meet us, so we can be able to know what we should do to re-open the case of Riego's case.
After a moment of waiting, we learned that the record was not enough evidence to re-open it, so it seems like we should look for witnesses and the camera.
The next destination is to go to Sammy's house, which was the house of Ma'am Morgan, and Mr. Noah Grayson.
We went out of the police station, maybe tomorrow, we will go to the next destination. I decided to go to the café to relax and to drink some coffee.
We are currently at the cafe, and sipping some delicious latte. He was enjoying his favorite chocolate drink.
“What do you think? Can we solve this problem?” I asked. He gasped and continued sipping his drink.
“If we think positively, yes will be my answer, if we think negatively, my answer will be a no,” he replied.
I leaned my back on the chair and looked at the view from the glass wall of the café. Yes, he's right.
However, I couldn't stop thinking about the negative results. My what-ifs, and my other assumptions.
What if we failed? What will happen in the future? The culprit will continue to do their wrongdoings.
If they are proving that they were stealing some money from the different companies. What will happen if we didn't capture the culprit? The killings will be going to continue until the innocents were involved.
“Eh? Space out? Back to earth, Sapphire,” Harvey said with a low tone of voice.
“We need to go to Sammy's house tomorrow, after class, okay?” I stated. He nodded as a sign of his answer.