Chapter 650

I said, "Yesterday, I went to see Sophia. I asked her about your father." Joanna froze, her spoon hovering mid-air. She slowly lifted her gaze to meet mine, her eyes wide and uncertain. "The accident that killed your parents—it wasn't just a tragedy. Someone had cut the brake line before the crash." The spoon in Joanna's hand snapped in half. Her eyes turned bloodshot in an instant, and something like dread knotted up in my chest. The unsettling change in her expression lasted only a moment before she regained her composure. She asked urgently, "Do you know who did it?" I studied her. That strange shift in her demeanor—I had seen it before. It was hard to describe, but something about it felt… unnatural. "No one knows. The Holmes family has been digging into it for years, but they've never found a lead. "I thought Sophia might've been lying at first. But it didn't make sense for her to fabricate something like that. Besides, she already knows you're Jake's daughter." Joanna let