Female Novel
Chapter 165
Chapter 165
“What are you doing, Victor?” Gloria caught up to him.
Victor, however, picked up the document on the table. The first thing he saw was the stamp of the mostfamous media outlet in Riverdale, but what caught his attention was the content. It was shocking to saythe least. “Burton’s the one who killed Hans!”
“Impossible! You’re lying!”
“See for yourself.” Victor handed the document to her.
The document detailed an illegal transaction that happened near a hospital. There were even pictures toprove it. The one who was holding the safe box was the same person who pulled Hans into the van
-it was none other than one of Justin’s bodyguards.
“Winston?” Gloria asked, recognizing the bodyguard right away.
“He’s the one who took Hans. What do you have to say for Burton now?”
All the color drained from her face when she heard that. “No. This is a misunderstanding. Even ifWinston’s behind Hans’ death, that doesn’t mean Justin ordered him to kill Hans. No, there’s no way
Justin would do that. He wouldn’t!”
“He wouldn’t do it? What a farce.” Victor snereed. “Didn’t you hear what his assistant said? They had thisfor a long time and there is even a video too. If he’s not guilty, why did he spend five million on this?”With that, he took the document and was about to walk out of the room.
“Where are you going?”
“To the cops. I’m reporting this.” Hans was hospitalized because of me. Truth was, Victor had beenfeeling guilty about it ever since he talked with Rachel. He wanted to apologize but alas, Hans wasmurdered before he could. Victor knew he could never make it up to Hans anymore, so the only thing hecould do was expose the murderer so Hans could rest in peace.
“Victor, are you mad? Hold it right there!” Gloria quickly got in his way. “You can’t report this to the cops.”
“You’re helping that b*stard?”
“No. This is for your own good! Do you think you can get Justin arrested just because you have thisinformation? This is just a trouble magnet.” Gloria gritted her teeth. “Even if he’s really the murderer, he’sjust going to get alarmed if he finds out about this.”novelbin
Upon hearing that, Victor paused.
Since he was starting to calm down, Gloria extended her hand and reassured, “Listen to me. Give methat article and pretend you never saw this.”
Victor, however, doubted her. “You’ll look into this?”
“I’ve been looking into this for a long time now,” Gloria insisted. “I’ve been looking for Rachel for ages.You can help me out if you want to.”
Meanwhile, Victor was still holding the five-million-dollar article, suspicious about Gloria. “And how can Iknow you’re not trying to get rid of this evidence for Justin? How do I know you won’t kill me just like hekilled Hans?”
“Get rid of the evidence? Me?” Gloria glared at him furiously. A short while later, she stomped on Victor’sfoot.
“Ow!” Victor gasped in pain. “What was that for?”
“I wouldn’t have taken you with me earlier if I wanted to kill you. You’d already be dead by now.”
Victor was gasping from the pain, and Gloria took the article from him. “What are you doing? Give thatback!”
“You’ll really die if I give this back to you.” She glared at him and put it back on the table. “Give me yourphone.”
“What are you trying to do?”
“Just give it to me.” She whipped out an old phone from Victor’s pocket and snapped some photos of thearticle, then she tossed the phone back to him. “You can’t take the manuscript, but you can have thesephotos. Happy?”
Victor was surprised.
Gloria closed the drawers and cabinets before turning around to stare at him. “You’re ungrateful, youknow that?” She then left the company but Victor followed her. “Why are you following me?” Gloria
growled. “I’m a hypocrite, aren’t I?”
Victor skidded to a halt and was petrified for a while. “Hey! I just want to say that I’m sorry.”
Gloria finally stopped in her tracks. “That’s all? Just an apology?”
“What do you want then?”
“Food. I’m starving!” With that, Gloria turned around. She was still looking angry, and her cheeks werepuffed.
Victor scratched his head. “Sure. My treat.”
The night breeze brushed against Riverdale’s river. It was early spring, so some people were still wearingwinter clothes on the street. Gloria was sitting on a bench, chomping down on her chicken drumstick andhamburger.
Victor then asked, “Are you sure that’s all you want?”
“What’s wrong? I like these.” Gloria raised her chin and muttered, “Give me the Coke.”
Victor gave her the Coke, but since she was holding something in both of her hands, she nudged over totake a big sip. A moment later, she let out a big burp, and an awkward silence fell between them.
Gloria rolled her eyes. “What are you looking at? Never seen a hot girl burp?”
Victor looked at her with blatant disgust. “If you call yourself hot, then there’d be no uglies in the world.”
“If I’m not hot, who is?”
“Rachel. She’s kind, gentle, knowledgeable, and nice to everyone around her. I’ve never seen anyone asbeautiful and kind as she was.” The more Victor talked about Rachel, the sadder he was. “I wonder howshe’s doing.”
Gloria dropped her smile too. “Don’t worry. Justin’s not the monster you think he is,” she said. “He
won’t torture her. Janice said that Justin hid Rachel because he’s worried Julian might take her away.”
“He’s a madman. Locking her up is already a form of torture. She’s not a prisoner!”
“Calm down.” Gloria put her food down and wiped her hands off. “Let’s not talk about this. Janice isalmost done with the neighborhood, but there’s still no sign of Rachel. Where could she be?” It’s beenthree months. She’s gotta be somewhere livable. Gloria then mumbled, “She must be somewhere inRiverdale. Justin was taken to the hospital right after he was injured. If she’s somewhere in the ruralarea, he would have been dead on arrival.”
Victor frowned. “He was injured? He deserves it. No wonder he was going to see a doctor.”
“A doctor?” Gloria was surprised. “He wanted to see a doctor?” She didn’t hear what Justin and Frankiewere talking about in the heat of the moment, since she was trying to keep Victor quiet and praying thatJustin didn’t notice his drawers were open.
“Yeah,” Victor answered. “His assistant said Dr. McCarty or something is in the car park. Asked Burtonwhen he’d be seeing the doctor.”
Lots of thoughts were racing in Gloria’s mind. “Why didn’t the doctor go to the office if he’s there forJustin then?” No. He was not there for Justin, which is why he didn’t go to the office.