Chapter 55

The fact that I reported him in the morning and withdrew the report in the afternoon had already left the police scratching their heads. Now that their key suspect had turned up dead, it made all the more sense they'd call me in, suspicious or not. I didn’t argue. Hung up and grabbed a taxi to the station. My thoughts were a complete mess the whole ride there. No matter how I looked at it, Victor didn’t seem like someone who’d kill himself—he was a total coward. Could Lena have silenced him? But she literally just got out of police custody. Would she really be that bold? And didn’t Henry already send her abroad? When would she even have the chance? Then again... could this whole thing be Henry’s doing? When I finally got to the station, I found out Victor had actually died yesterday. Only today did someone notice. The cause of death was gas poisoning, and yeah—it looked like suicide, especially with the note he left. In it, he admitted to being paid off by Lena to falsely accuse me all