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Chapter 72 Trying to Buy Me for a Hundred thousand?
I did not want to discuss more over the phone, so I asked him to text me the address. I
hung up, ready to hop in the car and leave. Just as I was about to get in, Idris yanked me
back. I was annoyed by his interruption, and with a frown, I shot him a glare. “What’s the
matter, Idris?”
He glanced at my leg and said, “You’re planning to drive in this condition?”
Catching his gaze, I noticed the scrape on my leg for the first time. I had nicked it while
hastily scaling the wall. It was a bloody mess, looking rather gruesome, but it was not
serious. Thus, I had not given it much thought.
I pressed my l*ps together, not in the mood for idle chatter, and said flatly, “I’m fine.”
With that, I made to get back in the car, but he hoisted me into the passenger seat
without a word. After buckling me, he slid into the driver’s seat and fired up the engine.
I was long accustomed to his antics. Busy with tasks at hand, I did not feel like wasting
more time with him. I pulled up the address Maxwell had sent me and said, detached,
“Drive there, please.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtWe reached our destination in no time.
Maxwell had stashed our guy in an abandoned factory
As we pulled up, he was perched on the hood of a derelict truck outside, waving us over
from a distance. “Over here!”
He sat there, legs crossed and a wild grass stalk hanging from his mouth, looking every bit
like a street tough.
“What do you think? Do I look like a gang leader?” He hopped off the hood, dusted his
clothes, and asked me with a cheeky grin.
I forced a laugh and replied with a smirk, “You sure think highly of yourself. Where’s our
guy?
Not getting the response he wanted, he clicked his tongue and lazily pointed towards the
factory. “Inside. Go on in!”
I had assumed Maxwell merely tied the guy up. To my surprise, when Idris and I entered,
we found Doctor Miller bound hand and foot, dangling from a beam. His mouth was
gagged, leaving him hanging from the ceiling, whimpering but unable to speak.
“This guy’s got some nerve. I was planning on having a civil chat with him, but he tried to
bribe me.” Maxwell followed us in, grumbling. “Offered me a hundred thousand to let him
walk. Do I look like I’m worth only a hundred thousand? The nerve!”
A twitch tugged at the corner of my mouth as I shot him a sidelong glance. “You strung
him up over a hundred thousand?” I asked.
He rolled his eyes. “What else? He’s seriously underestimating me. I can’t stand it when
people look down on me. He should have offered more. What can a hundred thousand
even do?
Should i be relieved that Doctor Miller was not exactly rolling in money? Otherwise, I might
not have been able to nab this guy.
I took a deep breath, turning to Maxwell. “Let him down, will you?” With him hanging that
high, if we wanted to interrogate him, his neck would not be able to take it.
Maxwell nodded, brandishing a small knife from who knows where, and sliced through the
hanging rope. Doctor Miller plummeted to the ground, his face contorting in pain.
After pulling the gag from Doctor Miller’s mouth, before I could even get a word out, he
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmwas already screaming. “This is illegal kidnapping! I’m going to sue you!”
I watched him, l*ps pursed, and took a few steps back. “Go ahead. The police might not
put much stock in a murderer’s words. Besides, we’ve caught a criminal, which is a good
deed. The police probably won’t sweat the small stuff.”
“I didn’t kill anyone!” Doctor Miller was frantic. “I never intended to kill her. Benett said
that as long as she went mad, that would be enough. I never thought she would die!”
I paused, looking at him. “Benett?”
He nodded. “Yes, him. He gave me some money, said his wife was mentally ill, and left her
with me. All I had to do was feed her extra medication every day, and let her continue her
madness in the hospital.”
I had suspected as much. I nodded. “Did you change Sophia’s personal information?”
He nodded in agreement. “Yes, the South Wing is reserved for those with severe mental
disorders. Sophia’s case is merely a delusion, and such patients aren’t permitted in the
South Wing. So, I swapped her records with another patient’s to sneak her in. Benett
handed me two hundred thousand, instructing me to simply keep Sophia inside. If Sophia’s
condition isn’t treated, the head of the hospital will eventually discover it. So, to worsen
her condition, I upped her medication after she was admitted. I never meant to kill her.”
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