Chapter 50 A Terrible Sinner

Everyone knows that staying in a house with excessive formaldehyde can quickly lead to leukemia. The moment I heard it, I knew Leona wouldn't miss such an opportunity. At first, I wasn't afraid. But then the police came to question me repeatedly. During the interrogations, I learned that everyone had told them— I had the most opportunity to commit the crime. Because throughout the entire project, I was always the first to arrive and the last to leave. I also had the strongest motive. Because even though I was Mrs. Hawthorne, Dominic loved Leona. And the last time I went to prison was because I pushed Leona down a hill. If not for timely discovery, she might have died. Repeated interrogations—this familiar, suffocating inability to defend myself—made me feel terrified! Later, the police found the worker who had mixed high-concentration formaldehyde into the wallpaper. I sat in the detention center, watching as the worker pointed at me and claimed I had ordered him to do it. Then, throug