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Chapter 262: The Police Would Surely Investigate A Dead Body, Right?
Chapter 262: The Police Would Surely Investigate A Dead Body, Right?
"Oh, Bella! I've finally found you!" The man exclaimed with a bright smile on his rather upstuck face that couldn't hide the arrogance in his eyes when he saw Bella staring at him with a blank look on her face.
"You don't understand how long I've been searching for you, going all over the city to find where you suddenly disappeared to...But it seems like my efforts weren't all for naught, as I've finally found you and another lady who's as beautiful as you as well."
The man gazed at Camila with a sharp gaze, which immediately made Camila disgusted at him and his behaviour, even though he seemed to be Bella's acquaintance, as he wasn't just looking at her face and was staring somewhere else as well, which was quite inappropriate to look at.
Camila was used to getting such gazes from men, so she wasn't bothered by it, but it still made her want to slam the door into the man's face. The only reason she was holding back was because she thought that he was her daughter's friend, or else she was sure that he would've left with a bloody nose by now.
"Enough with the cheap talk...First, tell me how you found my home?" Bella came forward to hide her mother from his vulgar gaze while looking at him with obvious disdain.
"Of course, it's your friends who told me where you went...When I told them how I spent day and night trying to find you, they sympathised with my efforts and told me that you went back home." He said while making it seem as if he went through an entire desert and swam across an ocean just to find her.
"They also provided me with your address as well, so it didn't take me too long to find this peaceful little place you call your hometown."
"...But as peaceful and quiet as it may be, it's still part of the booneys where the people living here grow crops and milk cows for a living, so I still think that you deserve to live in a much better place back in the city, and I suggest that you go back since I really don't think that there's much to do in this tiny town during the holidays." The man clearly looked down on Bella's hometown and thought of it as a kind of rural village, which infuriated Camila since this was the place she was born in and the place she grew to love over the years.
He then continued, with a smirk on his face, which was irritating to look at, "I also heard that you had a little fight with your friends and don't have a place to stay now, so I recommend you stay at the new apartment I bought near the campus...It would be much better than staying in that tiny dorm you used to live in, and as an added bonus, I can visit you whenever I want to, which is quite exciting to think about."
"Is that all you have to say?" Bella went straight to the point with a deadpan look on her face, not even caring anymore that her friends had sold her out once again. "If it is, then I suggest you leave my house immediately, or else I'll have to call the cops on you."
"Call the cops on me? For what?...Standing at your doorstep to ask you out?" The man chuckled like he wasn't afraid, which made Camila's lips twitch because of his annoying face. And listening to their conversation, she could understand that the boy in front of her was pestering her daughter, which made her hate him even more.
"I don't think that such a complaint will bring the cops here, and it would have to be a much more severe reason if you want the police to get involved."
"...Like for example, if I reached out my hand and touched the body of the pretty lady behind you." He said with a dirty smile on his face as he suddenly reached his hand towards Camila, who was watching behind her daughter and looked like he was going to grope Camila to vent his frustration for chasing Bella for so long and not getting anything in response.
"...Only then would the police come here and check what's going on here."
Both mother and daughter didn't panic when they saw him reach out his hand and stare at it with a cold look in their eyes, like they were checking what part of his hand to break first.
And just when they had silently decided that Camila would twist his wrist while Bella snapped his fingers like her mother had taught her when she was young, they heard a lifeless voice come out from behind them out of nowhere, which made both of them tremble since they didn't even feel or hear anyone approaching them from behind, and it felt like the walls started speaking on their own.
"Then what if they got a call saying that someone found a dead college student lying in the middle of a garden in someone else's house, like the one you're standing in right now?...The police would surely arrive in this spot to investigate your body, right?"
Camila and Bella both turned around at the same time to see who that calm and composed voice belonged to, even though they already knew who it was. But before they could catch sight of him, they saw a faint shadow pass by them that they could barely make out because of how fast it was.
All they could see was that the person who had snuck up behind them had grabbed the hand of the creep who was trying to grope Camila, swiftly pulled him out, and silently closed the door as he left with the scumbag.
"Both of you stay in and don't open the door until I tell you to do so...I'll just talk to this guy and send him back."
Kafka's monotonous voice came from behind the door, and as much as both of them wanted to open the door and check out what's going on, they didn't dare to cross Kafka's words since they already knew the consequences of doing so, especially when he was in a bad mood like he was in right now.
But even though Camila was mature enough to keep her thoughts to herself and wait here like Kafka said, even though she really wanted to hear what they were going to talk about, Bella was still young and curious, and looked towards the window on the side which had a clear view of the garden, with certain thoughts in mind...