A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 974 Inference

“You heard rumours that it was me who spread the news about Marcel being impotent, right?” Rae shot back at Lexie right away.

Lexie was slightly taken aback. What she had wanted to say was stuck, and she gave a few laughs, “Actually, actually, I really didn’t say anything, but everyone had said it was you who said it, and I personally think you’ve been wronged!”

Rae ignored her.

Lexie continued, “Rae, I’ll apologize to you, please don’t put on such a cold face, it’s quite scary!”

Rae turned to take a look at her, her face turning even colder, “Lexie, let me warn you. I will never go against any one of our colleagues. However, if there’re people who are speaking about me behind my back, I might retaliate, then if things turn sour, it will be awkward for everyone!”

Finishing her words, Rae took her transcript and left for the meeting.

At that moment, she had already calmed herself down. Although her eyes were still slightly red, but the colour on her face had already returned. She looked calm and peaceful. Walking into the conference room, she met Marcel’s eyes right away. Rae didn’t avert her gaze, instead she continued looking at Marcel calmly, holding his gaze while walking in.

Very quickly, everyone arrived, and Garbassi’s team had also arrived. Marcel sat at the head of the conference table, and shot a cold glance around the room. Then he said in a deep voice, “Let’s discuss the matter today! The matter regarding Karina and her brother Stanley!”

Recently Rae hadn’t taken part in the investigation herself, so she didn’t have any understanding of this case at all. Presently, she didn’t know why Marcel had looped herself into this meeting. Was he doing this on purpose to make her feel bad?

If that was the case, she really wondered whether Marcel had fallen in love with her, wanting to keep her in his watch like this!

For revenge alone, it was sufficient to make him do even worse things to her. But looking at the current situation, apart from insulting her right to her face, and then berating her in public, he hadn’t done anything else. Therefore, Rae had been so full of herself to wonder whether Marcel had really fallen in love with her!

However, when Marcel put up the deceased Stanley’s photo on the large screen, Rae immediately put aside her thoughts, and quickly immersed herself in the matter.

This was because on the large screen, every injury on Stanley’s body was photographed and enlarged. Rae could see the location of his injury, and at this moment, Marcel used the mouse to draw a circle on the screen, “This place, this was examined by Gustavo before. This scratch over here, is a scar from a long fingernail.”

That was an injury that was left behind by a scratch, the injury looked very deep, it must have been by a very long fingernail.

“We are not discussing who the culprit is!” Marcel continued, “Instead let’s talk about the similarities between the cases of the two siblings Stanley and Karina! Garbassi, let us know your investigation outcome!”

Garbassi nodded his head, took a look at his surroundings, and then made a short and simple report, “We employed every member of our team to investigate Stanley and Karina’s work place, life circumstances and friends before their death. After our comparison, we have come up with some data.”

At this moment, Garbassi took out a piece of A4 paper which contained the names of many people on it.

Garbassi placed the piece of paper under the projector. Following that, clear wordings immediately appeared on the large screen, and several names printed on it were known to Rae!

Heath！Ophelia! Benjamin, Reuben!

The four people were all known by the siblings.

At this moment, Garbassi said, “We found out that on the day before Karina died, she had met with Reuben before, and before the day Stanley died, he had also met with Reuben!”

Hearing this, Rae also felt a little shocked.

Garbassi continued. “Stanley had met four people separately, and the last person he had met was Ophelia!”

This time, Rae was really taken aback!

She looked at Garbassi in shock, and she heard him say, “On that afternoon, after Stanley met with Ophelia, he went to the bar. After that, because the CCTV in that zone was broken, so we weren’t able to check who Stanley was with. When we received the information that Stanley had made a police report about being raped by a woman, we logically concluded that someone was pulling a prank on the police. That was why we didn’t head out for investigation! It turned out that at dawn, Stanley’s body was found dead at his sister, Karina’s house! We found a sum of money in Stanley’s bank account, the amount is one million. However, the bank said that this sum of money was personally deposited by Stanley at the bank. According to our investigations, among the people that he had met with, apart from Ophelia, the rest of them had the capability to pay a sum of one million. However, upon deeper investigation, within the past three months, none of the four of them had retrieved one million from their accounts. Hence, the source of this one million is a mystery!”

One million worth of cash would be very heavy. Who would take it out from their bank accounts and put it at home without using? Would Reuben do that?

Rae was doubtful!

At this moment, Garbassi continued, “Stanley’s body has gone through a post-mortem, and it has been confirmed that he was indeed raped!”

They continued their discussion for a while, then Marcel started giving out instructions. He said to everyone, “For Reuben, Heath and Benjamin, Garbassi will arrange for someone to continue following them. As for Ophelia, Rae you will be in charge of investigating!”

Rae was slightly surprised, she had never imagined that Marcel would arrange for things in this way, so she was slightly shocked. Wouldn’t Marcel be worried that she would be biased towards Ophelia?

“For Ophelia, let’s focus on her a little. She was previously let out on bail. Now, for Karina’s case, she is also a suspect. Therefore, Rae, be careful when you are hunting for evidence!” Marcel’s tone was very formal, without any hint of emotion.

Rae could only nod her head, “Yes!”

“As for the matter between Ophelia and Reuben, let me briefly inform everyone about this. Ophelia had been living with Reuben for some time, so there is some connection between both of them!”

When he said this, those that knew about Reuben and Rae’s relationship subconsciously looked towards Rae, before lowering their heads again.

Rae was speechless having been stared at by everyone.

She was worried about Ophelia. What had Ophelia got to do with this matter?

As if without any hesitation, after instructing everything, Marcel said to everyone, “Now, go ahead with your separate tasks!”

Rae looked at her watch, it was already 3.30 in the afternoon. If she went ahead with investigation at this hour, she would definitely not be able to take it. What’s more, one person matter would be private, but two people would be official. For this matter, she had to bring another person with her. But before that, she wanted to meet Ophelia first. Regardless, she had to clarify whether Ophelia was related to this matter!

Rae packed her things, and made a call to Ophelia. It had been a long while since she met with Ophelia, she was slightly worried on whether Ophelia would pick up her call. In the end, Ophelia picked up very quickly, and her tone was exactly the same as in the past. “Rae, is there a matter?”

“Yea!” Rae sighed in relief, “Let’s meet up this evening, let’s have dinner together!”

“Now?” Ophelia seemed as if she had something going on. “Why not make it at night? I have to get dinner with a client, let’s meet at 9 p.m. Let’s go to DF Square and meet there. It seems like it’s been a while since we watched the stars over there. I kind of miss the times when we were sixteen or seventeen, and counting stars in the school field together!”

With her words, Rae was reminded of the past. She said into the phone, “Alright then, let’s meet at night!”

After hanging up, Rae spent the whole afternoon poring over the meeting information. She examined everything repeatedly, looking for any clues.

Seeing that she was so serious, Lexie came over to her and said, “Rae, tell me, what kind of woman is so thirsty that she would force a man on her like this! These matters make me shiver when I think about it. Doesn’t this embarrass all women?”

Rae took a look at Lexie, not wanting to continue the conversation. She felt that if she continued saying something, she was not sure what else Lexie would come up with. Therefore, she shut her mouth and did not say anything. She would like to see how Lexie would spread more rumours.

Lexie continued, “But this woman forced the man on herself, if the man had no reaction, it wouldn’t have been successful! So, this kind of matters are not conclusive. How did it even happen? I am so curious! How does the woman look like? How tough, how much bravery would this have required!”

Rae still refused to speak.

Lexie felt that there was no entertainment value here, and so she went back to her seat in a huff, not talking anymore.

When Rae got off work in the evening, she left her unit and got ready to leave. Suddenly, she saw an image of a Rolls Royce passing by the road outside the police station.

Rae was taken aback for a second. She immediately flagged down a cab, and said to the driver, “Sir, chase after the Rolls Royce in front!”

The cab driver opened his mouth, his expression almost as if mocking Rae, ‘Miss, are you crazy!’

Finally, he still said, “Miss, mine is a Volkswagen, compared to a Rolls Royce, the difference is huge!”

Rae didn’t care, flashing her identification card. “Sir, I am a police! I’m carrying out my duties now, please cooperate!”

Once the driver saw her identification card, he immediately stepped on the accelerator. “Alright, I will chase him with my life!!”

The cab chased after the Rolls Royce through a few streets, before finally stopping on a street. The car stopped at the doorstep of a jewellery shop.

Rae got the driver to stop too.

At this moment, a young man got down from the car. When Rae saw him, she was frozen for a moment.

Wasn’t this Benjamin?

Before she got down, Benjamin had already walked over. He walked towards her cab, and when he got closer, he knocked on the car window. The driver had to wind down his window. Benjamin squinted his eyes slightly and took a look at Rae who was sitting at the back. He then smiled, “Rae, are you following me?”

Rae was shocked by Benjamin’s sharp observation skills and his pointed question, and she was at a loss for words at that moment.

But the driver was smart, and he quickly replied, “Miss, we’ve arrived at the jewellery shop, didn’t you want to go to the jeweller?”

Rae looked at the driver gratefully, and took out some money for the driver. “Keep the change!”

Rae got down from the car, and smiled at Benjamin, “I came to the jewellery shop, didn’t expect to see Mr. Newman here!” Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

Finishing her words, Rae shot him a smile, her expression innocent.

Benjamin narrowed his eyes, considered Rae, and smiled. “So it’s a misunderstanding, I thought you were following me!”

Rae felt that this guy’s gaze was very sharp. When he looked at her, she felt an unknown sense of panic. She was a little afraid of this kind of gaze.

Benjamin continued, “Since you’re going to the jewellery shop, what a coincidence, let me pick some jewellery too. Let’s head in together!”

“Sure!” Rae nodded her head.

The both of them walked into the shop, and came to the counter. Benjamin asked Rae, “Why are you here buying jewellery on your own?”

“Aren’t you doing the same, Mr. Newman?” Rae smiled politely at him, her expression was very calm. “Is Mr. Newman buying jewellery for your girlfriend?”