Elias’ Crimes and Punishments of Romance
Chapter 92

Chapter 92

Chapter 92 Suspicion.

Elias returned to the car with troubling thoughts in his mind. He stayed in silence as he processed thethoughts.

Yacob didn’t dare interrupt Elias’ train of thought, so he waited in the driver’s seat without speaking up.

There was no other sound in the car other than the sound of the rain beating against the windows.

A long while later, Elias began in a low voice. “What do you make of Grace? Can I trust her words?”

Yacob pondered for a moment before answering. “As far as I remember, Miss Murphy is pure andinnocent. At worst, she prioritizes her beau over everything. She has no ambition other than staying byyour side. I believe that you can trust her words.”

Yacob remembered Grace as a little girl who wasn’t worth their time.

Elias watched the raindrops slide down the window. The complex situation gave him a headache, so heused his slender fingers to massage the bridge of his nose.

If Amanda and Grace speak the truth, then I slept with both women during the dinner. That’s notpossible.

The thought only worsened his headache.

Yacob noticed Elias discomfort and commented in concern. “We should go to the hospital, Mr. Winters.Pushing yourself too hard won’t do you good. Old Mr. Winters will blame me if anything happens toyou.”

He could imagine the scene in which Howard went mad when he discovered that Yacob helped Elias tobe discharged from the hospital. What if the discovery sends Old Mr. Winters to the hospital this time?

“Shut up. Just drive me home.” Elias continued to massage his forehead as he leaned against the seatwith his eyes closed. He didn’t seem well to Yacob.

“Please listen to me. Mr. Winters. It was a serious car accident. Besides, I think somebody is behindthe accident.” Yacob spoke his mind.

His words put Elias on alert. “Come again?” he asked with his eyes wide open.

Yacob hesitated. A frown formed between his brows. “It’s just a guess, but I think somebody must’veplanned it”

“And what proof do you have?”

Yacob didn’t answer as Elias’ words got him thinking. At first, he didn’t plan to trouble Elias with hisguesses without solid evidence. However, the details in the crash site suggested otherwise.

“There are no cameras to monitor the situation in the section. Besides, according to the films in thedrive recorder, you lost control of the car before the accident. Therefore, I gave the car a thoroughinspection and found that the steering wheel and brake weren’t in good condition. However, one usuallywon’t pay attention to them.”

Elias narrowed his eyes as he tried to recall the details before the accident.

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It rained heavily that day. He had always been blaming himself for not watching the road with attention.which resulted in him running the car off the road and into the forest. However, Yacob’s words allowedhim to see things from a new perspective.

With Elias’ driving skills, he shouldn’t have overturned his car in the forest. There should only be a fewscratches here and there. I can’t even remember what made the car turn over,

“Mr. Winters, I don’t have solid evidence for the time being, so I shouldn’t blame anyone, I might beimagining things.” Yacob did not want to jump to conclusions.

Elias watched the rain running down the window in silence. His thoughts remained unknown to Yacob.

It was raining again. The rainy spell frustrated Amanda.

She slept in because it was a weekend and woke up when it was almost 12.00PM.

Meanwhile, Selina had taken Aiden to the amusement park and the gesture eased Amanda’s burden.She was glad to have some alone time to herself on the weekend.

Suddenly, her stomach rumbled. She went downstairs and turned to head to the kitchen, intending tomake noodles for brunch.

She was meeting up with a client in the afternoon for business, so she decided to grab a light meal.

Her phone rang when she was cooking the noodles. She picked up her phone with one hand while shecontinued to stir the noodles in the pot with a ladle.

Simon’s voice rang out from the other end of the line. “What are your plans for the weekend?”

“Enjoy it, of course. What’s the matter? Boss, is it a call from work?” Amanda teased

“It isn’t. Are you free later? I want to treat you and Aiden to lunch. The fish I ordered has arrived and itis very fresh. Aiden loves having fish, so I’ll make lunch for you”

Amanda giggled. It’s okay. That little brat is having a fun time with his babysitter in the amusementpark.”

“Oh, I see. What about you? Do you have any plans for lunch? Why don’t you join me? Cooking formyself is demotivating.

She felt bad for turning him down not once but twice. However, she insisted on her stance. “Don’t worryabout me. You can ask Miss Gowen to join you for lunch, though. I’m making noodles for brunch. I’mgoing to meet up with a client this afternoon.

“There’s one thing you need to know, Amanda. What happened between me and Lunabelle is all in thepast. I’m not interested in picking up where we left off.”

“Whatever. You’re not obliged to explain to me, you know? It’s none of my business. If you don’t havefeelings for her anymore, you should move on to another woman. After all, you’re at the age to replace thewoman of your life.”

Amanda recognized the undertone in Simon’s words. However, she didn’t see a future with him even ifLunabelle didn’t exist in the first place.

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Simon Nicholson was an excellent man, but Amanda was a divorced woman with a child to take careof. Moreover, he proposed a marriage without love, and she couldn’t agree with him on that term.

She could tell he hadn’t moved on from his ex-girlfriend. I guess he can’t get over the fact he gotditched by her back then, which explains why he rejected her suggestion to rekindle the flame.

Amanda didn’t need more words to get her point across. Simon understood them and he changed thetopic to lighten the mood. “By the way. I heard that Elias was involved in a car crash. Aren’t you goingto visit him?”

His words put a frown between her brows. “Words sure travel fast, huh? Even you have heard of thenews.”

“People in our social circle have been talking about the accident. I heard that it almost killed him. Is heall right?”

“He’s fine overall but needs some time to recover.

“It seems like you did visit him.” Simon’s disappointment was evident in his tone.

She couldn’t help but chuckle. “Don’t pull that trick on me, Mr. Nicholson. You won’t hear the answeryou expect. Visiting him in the hospital doesn’t mean there’s anything between me and him. After all,he found my child and brought my child back to me. I’m grateful for that.”

“That’s not what I mean. I was told that there were no cameras in the certain section, let alonecapturing what happened. The police couldn’t replace anything at the crash site.”

Amanda’s heart skipped a beat at the innocent statement. Her smile froze on her face as she recalledeavesdropping on Grace’s call at the hospital.

The thought deepened the frown between her brows as she recalled the situation.

She remembered that Grace was talking to somebody on the phone in the hospital that day. Gracementioned that there weren’t any cameras around the section, alongside exuding confidence that thepolice wouldn’t suspect her.

Now that he mentions it, something was not right with Grace. Is someone responsible for the accidentand the person is none other than Grace? Besides, it was Elias’ birthday that day. Everyone calls itkarma and it can be traced back to Grace’s brother, Yelan. Does it have anything to do with Grace? Isshe behind all this nonsense of trying to make people believe that Elias had it coming?