Filed To Story: Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family
Carl, who was driving, couldn’t help but ask as he glanced at the rearview mirror, “Mr. Romeo, do we drop Mirabella off at school first, or?”
Romeo, “Home first.”
Mirabella, “School first”
They both spoke at the same time, then looked at each other,
“We’re not sure about the identities and motives of those people yet. If you go to school, you might endanger the other students, said Romeo seriously. “Stay with me. I’ll keep you safe.”
Mirabella, Huh? Who was protecting whom just now?
“Have our people found any information?” Romeo glanced at Carl, who was in the driver’s seat.
Carl, “Nothing yet, but since they’re already in our hands, even if they’re mutes, they’ll have to spill the beans.”
I’ve already found something.” Mirabella’s slender fingers quickly worked on a bounty website, and she soon found the IP address of the person who posted the bounty. “The bounty was posted at 11 p.m. last night on Deer Mountain, with a reward of five million.”
She didn’t expect her virtual identity to be worth this much.
Carl’s eyes widened, and he glanced at the rearview mirror in disbelief.
Ms. Bella figured it out this fast??
How long had it been?
Less than a minute, right?
Romeo looked at Mirabella, surprised by her growing skills
“Deer Mountain is on the outskirts of Summerfield. It’s steep and vertically 90 degrees, so there’s no place for people to set foot on. That’s why nobody goes there. There’s no surveillance. There are three roads nearby where cars pass by. A total of eleven cars passed by Deer Mountain after 11 p.m. I tracked the routes of these eleven cars and found that they all seemed normal and did not try to avoid surveillance.”
Mirabella pointed at the screen, zooming in on the surveillance footage. “But look here, out of these eleven cars, a Mercedes appeared after a truck and a Toyota from another direction passed under a bridge.”
In other words, a Mercedes suddenly appeared after the truck and the Toyota passed under the bridge.
Where did this Mercedes come from?
“So, you suspect that the Mercedes came from the truck? There’s something fishy about the truck and this Mercedes?” Romeo asked Mirabella.
“Exactly.” Mirabella checked the truck’s subsequent route and found out that it drove into a car scrapyard and then suddenly exploded.
She also checked where the Mercedes went next and found out that it disappeared starting from the bridge.
Where did the people in the car go??
Mirabella continued her search, and Romeo couldn’t help but smile as he looked at her serious profile.
She was so beautiful.
“The truck driver is dead. He left a suicide note saying he was in debt and didn’t want to live anymore, so he set himself on fire. There was no one else in the truck,” Mirabella shared what she found, “The driver of the Mercedes was drunk. He crashed into a barrier and fell into a lake. By the time he was pulled out the next day, the car was beyond repair, and he was unfortunately dead. But.”
“But what?” Romeo asked.
“The way the Mercedes was driven didn’t seem like it was driven by a drunk person.” Mirabella fell into thought. After a while, she suddenly realized she was missing something and immediately started searching on her phone.
“Did you find a new lead?”
“Yeah, we overlooked the Toyota. If I’m not mistaken, both the truck and the Mercedes were a smokescreen created by the real culprit to confuse us and lead us away from the real issue. The focus should be on the Toyota. If I’m not wrong, the person who posted the bounty is in that Toyota!”
Mirabella pulled up the surveillance footage of that Toyota car, saw it linger in a deserted factory for a bit, and then zoomed out.
After a while, a Porsche rolled out of the same deserted factory.
She guessed whoever was in the Toyota might have switched to the Porsche.
After some sleuthing, Mirabella found the Porsche parked somewhere.
The place was called “Eternal Summer Villa.”
Romeo’s expression turned serious, “That’s the Winters family’s villa.”
“So, the person who wanted to harm Mirabella was from the Winters family?” Carl, who was driving, was shocked into silence. He didn’t expect that Ms. Bella would find out the puppet master in less than ten minutes.
But how could a member of the Winters family be the puppet master?
The Winters and McMillian families were on good terms, and they knew Ms. Bella was Romeo’s fiancee.
They wouldn’t dare harm Ms. Bella even if they had the guts.
Mirabella continued her investigation and found that last night, Enid Winters did come home late at night and Noreen was with her.
Now the evidence was solid, Mirabella looked at Romeo, “What do we do now?”
After all, the Winters family once saved Romeo’s father.
If it wasn’t for their timely discovery, Romeo’s father might have drowned in the pool long ago, there wouldn’t be a wife and son later, and there wouldn’t be Romeo.
It could be said that this favor was beyond words.
Romeo’s gaze became complex, and he stayed silent for a while before saying, “Let’s drop it.”
“Okay.”
Since he wanted to drop it, Mirabella wouldn’t do anything further to them.
Romeo, “There’s no way we’re dropping it.”
Dared to lay a finger on his sweetheart?
“You handle this and I’ll take care of the aftermath,” Romeo said gently.
“Alright.” Mirabella packaged the evidence and sent it to the police station. Soon, police cars were blaring their sirens in the streets, heading directly to the Winters family to make arrests.
When the parents of the Winters family heard their daughter was suspected of murder, they couldn’t believe it. They watched in shock as Enid was taken away. They panicked, and quickly called Mr. Winters for help.
Upon hearing that this had something to do with Mirabella and not having Mirabella’s number, Mr. Winters could only call Romeo.
Romeo deliberately ignored him, forcing him to find Phillip in person. As soon as he entered the room, Mr. Winters was frantic and he was almost choking.
“Phillip, could Mirabella have misunderstood something? How could Noreen and Enid possibly murder her? They couldn’t even bear to step on a bug when they were kids, and there’s no way this was their doing.”
Mr. Winters was truly desperate. He disregarded his dignity and clutched Phillip’s hand, pleading, “Please call Mirabella and tell her to release them. Noreen and Enid can’t stand this kind of suffering! Wasn’t this destroying the relationship between our two families?”
Even though Phillip had not been fond of the Winters family since the last incident with the game of Go, when he heard that someone had hired a hitman, he couldn’t help but ask, “What on earth was going on?”
Mr. Winters told Phillip the whole story, but Phillip was indifferent. He withdrew his hand, “There’s no way Bella could be wrong. If she said your granddaughters, Noreen and Enid, hired someone to commit murder, then that meant they must have done something unspeakable!”
Mr. Winters was taken aback, “Phillip, how can you jump to conclusions so quickly when things haven’t been clarified? My two granddaughters had a bit of a tiff with Mirabella, but it’s not like it’s escalated to hiring a hitman. There must be someone trying to drive a wedge between our families.”
“You’re saying Mirabella is framing you?” Phillip looked very unhappy. If there were a table near him, it would definitely be flipped.
“No. What I’m saying is, shouldn’t we release Enid and Noreen before everything is clarified.”
“You said it yourself, and this was Bella’s call, I can’t override her.” Phillip waved his hand, ready to leave the living room and head upstairs. “Phillip, she’s your grandson’s wife. Doesn’t she listen to you?”
“Well, you’ve got it all wrong.” Phillip turned his head back, correcting him word by word, “Exactly because she is the McMillian family’s granddaughter in law. I fully support whatever she does, and not only that, if anyone dares to bully her, I’ll hold them accountable! You’d better pray that your granddaughters haven’t done anything unforgivable or I won’t let it slide!”
“Phillip!!” Mr. Winters was furious, seeing that Phillip Wouldn’t intervene, “Don’t forget, I was the one who saved your son! Otherwise, where would you get your grandson and granddaughter?”
Phillip stopped and looked at him, his eyes unreadable.
“Put it nicely, the McMillian family owed me a favor. Put it bluntly, the McMillian family owed me two lives!”
If he hadn’t saved Romeo’s father back then, Romeo wouldn’t have been born.
One could say he saved two members of the McMillian family at once.
“So, you’re here to cash in on your lifesaving favor?” There was a hint of contempt in Phillip’s eyes.
“Absolutely!” Mr. Winters was so angry that he didn’t care about the relationship between the two families, “Even if Noreen and Enid did something wrong, I saved your son and grandson so you should let them go, and we’re even!”
“Are your two granddaughters together worth half my son’s life? If the Winters family really tried to murder Bella, don’t expect me to let you off the hook!” “Phillip, one must not forget kindness. I saved your son, gave you a grandson, and now your grandson is so outstanding all because of me. Mr. Winters put the pressure on, “If you feel awkward talking to Mirabella, let me do it. Call her now, and I’ll talk to her.”
You want to make things difficult for Mirabella? I’m not dead yet! It’s not your place.”
Before Phillip could finish his sentence, his phone rang. He checked and it was from Mirabella.
Mr. Winters noticed the change in his expression. Needless to say, the caller must be Mirabella!
He was about to snatch Phillip’s phone, but Phillip picked up first.
He answered because he couldn’t bear to hang up on Mirabella and didn’t want to pretend he didn’t see.
“Hello? Bella.” Phillip’s tone when talking to Mirabella was soft and gentle, a stark contrast to his earlier demeanor.
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