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Chapter 123
Chapter 123
Chapter 123
Chapter 123 At the Police Station
Fortunately, Lily had only tied the children to the chairs and hadn’t actually sadistically abused them.
The wound on Danny’s arm had been bandaged, and he clung to David throughout the process.
“Where’s Joe?” David looked behind Charlotte, surprised that he didn’t see Joe.
Without Joe’s help, the situation might not have been resolved so quickly for today’s events.
Charlotte shook her head.
As she recalled the words she had spoken to Lily in her haste, her gaze turned heavy.
She had considered countless possibilities for how Joe might discover the children’s true identities, but she had never anticipated this outcome.
David seemed to sense her thoughts and patted her shoulder. “Don’t worry. If it comes to a custody battle, I’ll support you.”
Charlotte neither confirmed nor denied, just making a call to
summon Mr. River and Mrs. River. After the previous experience, she was reluctant to leave the children in someone else’s care and had to trouble them again.
After all, they were just children. Even after arriving at the hospital, both Ben and Anna still seemed a bit shaken. They huddled close to Charlotte, listening to her gentle and soothing words of comfort.
It wasn’t until the children had all fallen asleep that Charlotte
left the ward with a serious expression. She turned to Mr.
River and said, “Mr. River, I appreciate your and Mrs. River’s
help. I need to go to the police station for a while. If they wake up, please comfort them.”
Mr. River responded solemnly, “You can rest assured. We’ll take good care of the children.”
Only then did Charlotte drive to the police station.
The officer in charge of the case greeted her promptly, and as he talked about Lily’s current condition, his expression held a
hint of strangeness.
Today’s kidnapping case could be considered the easiest one they have encountered. They had just received the report, and all the criminals at the scene had already been apprehended. Also, each of them was securely bound, displaying an unusually high level of professionalism.
They would have wanted to ask who was so powerful if it
weren’t for the inappropriate occasion.
“After apprehending the criminal and bringing her back, her mental state has been quite unstable. Not only has she refused to cooperate with our interrogation, but she has also repeatedly mentioned your and Mr. Johnson’s names…”
Outside the one-way window of the interrogation room, Officer Carter, who was in charge of the case, solemnly briefed Charlotte.
Charlotte gazed at the pale and disheveled Lily in the interrogation room, feeling no sympathy whatsoever.
“I suspect that her involvement might not be limited to just this kidnapping case. She might also be connected to the abduction and abuse of Danny.” Charlotte revealed all the things Lily had said in the warehouse to Officer Carter, whose
expression grew serious immediately.
“We will investigate this matter thoroughly,” Officer Carter assured earnestly. “However, considering her series of actions, it indeed doesn’t seem like her first offense.”
“By the way, we did find a substantial amount of explosives beneath that warehouse,” Officer Carter’s voice turned colder. “If those explosives were to detonate, it wouldn’t only affect
one-kilometer radius.”
Cold sweat began to bead on Charlotte’s back.
She had always thought that Lily’s mention of explosives was just an attempt to scare them, but she hadn’t expected it to be
true!
“But aren’t such things tightly regulated in the country? How did she…”
Officer Carter shook his head. “We need to investigate the specifics of this case.”
Charlotte nodded thoughtfully.
Coincidentally, at that moment, David arrived. Upon seeing Officer Carter, David informed him about everything that had happened over the past few days.