This Time, I Will Get My Divorce, Mr Chapter 377
Sonia was a little angry. “I thought her guilty conscience got to her. Turns out she didn’t want to hide because she knew she’d get caught sooner or later.”
Toby looked at her. “What do you want to do with this person?”
“Don’t rush it. I want to know why she attacked me.” Sonia squeezed her fists, her expression extremely cold.
Toby suddenly narrowed his eyes. “She didn’t give an explanation.”
“No explanation?” Sonia was surprised.
Toby rubbed his fingers together, and his entire demeanor exuded a murderous aura. “Yes. No matter how the police interrogated her, she wouldn’t explain.”
Sonia gritted her teeth. “Then, she’s quite stubborn.”
“Charles saw her, and according to him, she seemed to have someone backing her, so she refused to explain.” Toby pressed his thin lips into a straight line.
Although he didn’t go to the police station to see the woman, Tom did.
Tom said that the police even used a strong light during interrogation, but the woman still didn’t explain. She obviously didn’t seem like a strong person—she was just an ordinary person who was rather soft and weak—but that woman stood firm on not disclosing any information.
So, if it wasn’t because something was worrying her, her willpower wouldn’t be so strong.
“What’s that woman’s name?” Sonia took a deep breath and managed to calm down.
Toby looked at her. “Alice Collins.”
It was an extremely rustic and common name.
“Alice Collins?” Sonia was puzzled. It was obvious that she didn’t know this person, nor had she heard of that name before.
So, why would a person who had no grievances or grudges against her do this to her?
Was she ordered by someone, or…
For a moment, Sonia’s heart was filled with many doubts.
“I want to go to the police station tomorrow to see the woman and personally question her,” Sonia said solemnly.
She wouldn’t be satisfied if she didn’t question the woman herself!
Toby was a little reluctant to agree at first, seeing as she had yet to fully recover.
But when he saw the determination on her face, he decided not to stop her.
At the Gray Residence in Eastbourne, Rina had just found out that Alice had been captured. Her heart was beating rapidly, and she barely took two bites of her dinner before excusing herself to her bedroom, claiming that she was feeling unwell.
As she sat on the edge of her bed, her breathing was heavy, and her anxiety was clear from her expression.
Right now, she was afraid that Alice would expose her.
Rina had made a deal with Alice, in which Alice promised to be investigated by the police on her behalf, and she repeatedly promised that she wouldn’t give Rina up. Despite that, in the end, who could guarantee that it wouldn’t happen?
So, she had been on edge since the afternoon, and she was distracted when she went shopping with her mother. It wasn’t until dinnertime when she saw from the news that Alice had been arrested that she completely panicked. She was worried that the police would suddenly turn up to arrest her, the real culprit.
Indeed—the person who harmed Sonia was actually her, not Alice.
The day before she planned to take action against Sonia, she happened to meet Alice. When she found out that Alice desperately needed money to treat her son, she took the initiative to speak to Alice and had struck a deal with her. She would pay for Alice’s son’s treatment, while Alice would take the blame for her.
So, she came up with a plan. She bought a set of men’s clothes for Alice and brought them to the department store. At 5.00PM, they met in the store’s restroom and swapped clothes. Wearing Alice’s clothes, she went to Bayside Residence to destroy Sonia’s red mole, while Alice, posing as Rina, took a taxi to Midbert Village to wait for her. After she destroyed Sonia’s mole, she went to Midbert Village to swap back with Alice. This plan only worked out well because she and Alice were the same height and weight. Otherwise, the police would surely notice that the person who attacked Sonia and the person they arrested were different.
After changing back into her own clothes, she returned to the Gray Residence and broke the stick that she used to attack Sonia, then wrapped it up in some old clothes before placing it into a black garbage bag and throwing it away.
She brought it back to throw because she was afraid that the police would find it if she discarded it at Bayside Residence. After all, there may be some fingerprints on it that she failed to clean. If they found out, her plan would be useless.
She didn’t ask Alice to attack Sonia but did it herself instead because Alice was too timid, even more so than Rina. When she heard that the task was to harm someone, she wasn’t willing to do it, so Rina had no choice but to take matters into her own hands.
Although she wasn’t exactly a good person and was rather shrewd, it was still her first time hurting someone. So, when she attacked Sonia, she was anxious and scared, but she had to go through with it for the sake of her future. Surprisingly, she was no longer scared after it was done; she was only fearful that she would be caught.
However, the news had said that Alice was arrested at around 4.00PM. Several hours had passed, but the police hadn’t come looking for her yet, so it seemed like Alice didn’t expose her after all.
With this in mind, Rina’s restless and frightened heart calmed down a little.
Getting up, she walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, then looked out at the night sky and murmured, “Miss Reed, please don’t hold this against me. I’m just doing this for my future. Since you and Mr. Coleman brought me to this paradise and aroused my greed, then you have to be responsible for it. So, the blame should be on you for being Rina…”
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At 9.00AM the next day, Sonia asked Charles to take the morning off for her, then she prepared to go to the police station to take a look at Alice.
Charles was unable to talk her out of it, so he could only agree and got a wheelchair before accompanying her there.
They had just reached the parking lot when Tom pushed Toby over as well.
Seeing this, Charles placed both hands on his waist. “What, now? You want to go too?”
Toby didn’t deny it. “Am I not allowed to? I’m part of the reason she was caught, so it’s only right that I go too.”
Charles pursed his lips. “If it wasn’t because of that, I’d do anything to stop you.”
“Okay, Charles. That’s enough. Let’s go.” Sonia couldn’t see, so she could only fumble around until she found Charles. Then, she patted his hand and urged helplessly, “Don’t forget. We’re only free in the morning.”
“Sorry, Darling. You know that I want to take jabs at Toby everytime I see him. I’ll help you get into the car.” As he spoke, he took out his car keys and opened the door.
Beside them, Tom let out a light cough, then suppressed his laughter and said to Toby, “President Fuller, let’s get into the car too.”
Toby murmured assent. Despite agreeing, he didn’t move, but kept staring at Sonia instead.
It wasn’t until Sonia got into the car with Charles’ help that he signaled for Tom to push him to their car.
With one in front of the other, the two cars arrived at the police station almost a dozen seconds apart.
Charles then pushed Sonia in.
The police station had received Toby’s phone call and knew that they were coming, so they wordlessly brought them to see Alice.
Alice had been locked up in the interrogation room all this while, and the police planned to keep her there for twenty-four hours, so they didn’t give her anything to eat, but only gave her water. They didn’t allow her to sleep as well, and even kept her under strong light to oppress her so that she would break down and confess.
It had been more than ten hours now, and Alice was obviously in a distressed state, but she still refused to say anything, which was truly troubling the police.
After all, they rarely encountered people who were so perseverant. Usually, only those guilty of the most heinous crimes would be so tough because they had too large of an involvement.
But Alice was just a regular citizen, and she had only made a small mistake, yet she was so resistant. It really made them feel helpless.
“So, you’re Alice?” Sonia asked. After Charles pushed her into the interrogation room, he whispered to her that Alice was right in front of her.
