Chapter 89 – Back Home to Marry Off Myself Novel

It was the same sentence. Loredana was not interested.

“I am sorry. I have other business to take care of. I am leaving.” Loredana paid for her ticket and then walked to the entrance.

Under the urgent situation, Terry run to her and grabbed her arm, “Six years ago, my brother got a sum of money, which was given to him by a woman who asked him to hit and kill a woman by car.”

Bang!

Loredana felt like a lightning struck on her head.

Someone tried to kill her six years ago?

“You are the woman that my brother was ordered to kill. But luckily you escaped your death, right?”

Terry spoke his speculation.

After discovering the recording, Terry understood why Loredana found him repulsive and disgusting whenever she saw him.

Loredana took the memory card from his hand. She observed it carefully and thought it must be a phone memory card. Only old-fashioned phone used in old days had this kind of card. Smart phone these days had huge internal memory and didn’t need such things. Loredana put the memory card back on his hand, “You have evidence in it?”

“If you have time, we can find a place and talk.” Terry knew Loredana would agree.

Loredana agreed as he had assumed. She wanted to know who wanted to kill her too.

That car accident almost made her lose her babies.

“I know a coffee shop nearby. Let’s go there.” Loredana walked ahead to lead the way.

Terry followed her.

The coffee shop was in the neighborhood’s surroundings. Loredana saw it last night.

Soon they arrived at the coffee shop. Loredana found a quiet corner and sat down.

“Would you like something to drink?” Though Loredana wanted to find out the truth immediately, she thought Terry needed a drink judging by how thirsty he looked.

“I want some water.” He was truly thirsty.

Loredana handed the menu to a waiter, “Get us two cups of water first. We will let you know when we need something else.”

“Okay.”

The waiter brought two cups of water. After the waiter walked away and Terry drunk a cup of water,

Loredana said, “Spill it. What happened?”

“Listen to this first.” Terry took out a phone which can accommodate the memory card. He opened the phone and put the memory card in it. Then he turned on the phone and found the recording in the memory card before playing it.

There was only a single section of recording, which must be recorded during a conversation.

“If I do as you said and kill that woman by car. Won’t I go behind bars?”

“Don’t worry. I won’t let you get lawsuits or get imprisoned. We will damage the brake of your car ahead of time and then fake a brake failure. You won’t have to take much responsibility for a car accident caused by brake failure. Besides, you are sick, and I will also assist you. You should know that you will get a large sum of money after you finish your job. You won’t make such great money even if you work for your whole life. This is a good deal for you.”

“Don’t worry. Even if you are imprisoned, I will get you out.” The woman seemed very eager to persuade him.

At that time, Maria not only wanted to have Loredana taste the pain of a car accident, but also wanted her life.

She wanted to make Loredana disappear from this world before Loredana and Cormac got a divorce. In this way, nobody would threaten Maria’s position any more. And Cormac would belong to her and her alone.

But Maria didn’t know that someone would come rescue Loredana.

She also didn’t know that man took Loredana away from B City. Loredana was gone for six years. She even gave birth to her babies.

“According to this recording, I speculate that this woman knew my brother needed money and that he was a truck driver. So she found him and planned the accident.” Terry put the phone back into his pocket and said.

Loredana rested her head on her hand and thought about the female voice in the recording. It was clear and familiar. She almost recognized the voice at the second she heard it.

It belonged to Helen, who was Maria now.

It was Maria who made Maxina suffer from mental disease before, which was later controlled and cured by Sampson. So Maxina was like a normal person now. Therefore, Loredana didn’t want to hold on to it.

The reason why she didn’t want to hold to it was because Maria was Sampson’s sister.

But now…

Loredana had always thought the car accident was caused by brake failure. But it wasn’t.

“You know who the woman in the recording is, right?” Terry asked tentatively.

Loredana raised her head and kept turning around the cup in her hand in an irregular way. She didn’t answer him but asked, “I am curious about how you obtained this recording?”

Terry’s face froze and then he lowered his head.

“You are not talking?” Loredana let go of the cup and stood up, “Thank you for telling me this.”

Terry suddenly raised his head and looked at her. He asked in astonishment, “Aren’t you going to look into this? Someone tried to kill you.”

Loredana indifferently looked at Terry, who looked very eager, and said, “It’s my business whether to look into it or not.”

“But, don’t you think if we work together, the odds that we will win are higher?” If they worked together, he could bring the woman who killed his brother into justice, and Loredana could revenge on the woman who tried to kill her. Wasn’t it a win-win cooperation?

Why did Loredana look so calm and indifferent after she learned about the truth?

“But you are holding something back from me, aren’t you?” The truth did surprise her, but it didn’t make her lose her mind. There was something that Terry didn’t confess to her.

Terry lowered his head and his nervous hands kept rubbing on each other.

“After you tell me everything, I will think about whether to cooperate with you.” Loredana looked out of the window and said plainly, “That woman, isn’t someone you can bring into justice with only some evidence.”

If it was before, it wouldn’t be that difficult.

But now Maria was a member of the Herbert family, which had both money and power.

How could it be easy to bring her into justice?

“Wait…” When Loredana arrived at the door, Terry stood up and looked at her back, “Sit down.”

Loredana looked back and watched him, “You made up your mind?”

Terry pursed his lips hard and nodded.

Loredana sat back on her stool.

“If you want to cooperate with me, you have to tell me everything you know.”

Terry took in a deep breath and looked at Loredana, “I had been investigating on my brother’s death, but

I couldn’t find any useful clues until I received that call.”

“What call?”

“My brother stored something in Ping An Insurance when he was alive. When the lease for the locker room expired, no one went to get it. So the staff called me.” Terry said honestly, “I am the second number that my brother put in the registration form. They couldn’t get through to the first number, which was my brother’s number, so they contacted me.”

Loredana didn’t say anything and listened to him in silence.

“My, my brother seemed to have stored it on purpose.” Terry lowered his head.

“Why did he do it?” Loredana looked at him and asked.

Speak no ill of the dead. Terry didn’t want to expose the disgusting things that his brother did when he was alive. After all, they two shared a mother.

Terry lowered his head and kept silent.

Loredana waited for him for several minutes, but he still said nothing.

“If you don’t tell me the truth, and I don’t know about the whole thing, how can I cooperate with you?

Now that you don’t trust me, why did you stop me from leaving?”

“I do trust you.” Terry denied instantly.

“It was possible that my brother recorded the conversation on purpose when he was talking to that woman. After he finished his job, he got the money…But maybe he found her later and wanted to blackmail and threaten her with the recording. So he was killed.”

In a word, his brother died over greed.

Loredana figured out the whole thing now. His brother was the driver who was bought by Maria to kill her with a car accident. After the accident, Loredana went abroad. But his brother was too greedy and went back to blackmail Maria after he was paid. So his brother was killed.

“What are you going to do? You won’t let the woman who tried to murder you walk free, right?” Terry asked in eagerness.

“The whole thing is clear now, but it won’t be easy to upend this old case.” Loredana stood up, “I have something else to attend to today.”

“I can driver you there.” Terry stood up too, “I have a car.”

Loredana looked at him and nodded.

After they got in the car, Terry wrote his number on a piece of paper and handed it to her, “This is my phone number. You can call me whenever you want. I will introduce myself again. I am Terry.”

Loredana got the paper, “I will memorize it. You can call me Loredana.”

“Okay.” Terry focused on driving and soon the car stopped in front of the shop in decoration.

Theresa was waiting at the door in angst. Seeing Loredana, she run to her, “What took you so long?”

“Something stalled me.” Loredana explained.

“Contact me by phone.” Terry made a gesture towards Loredana, which meant calling someone by phone, “If you need to use a car, you can call me too.”

Maybe it was because they had a common enemy now, two of them grew closer.

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