Elias’ Crimes and Punishments of Romance
Chapter 94

Chapter 94

Chapter 94 The Listening Device

Before Yacob could get out of the car to open the door for Elias, the latter already pushed the dooropen and walked toward the forest.

What is Amanda doing here? It’s getting dark.

Elias walked into the forest with questions in his mind. He began to look around for Amanda.

“Mr. Winters!” Yacob tried to follow Elias. He didn’t dare to let Elias out of his sight even for a moment.

However, Elias coldly ordered, “Stay where you are. Don’t follow me.”

Yacob did not answer and did as was told. He didn’t try to move after Elias made his words clear.

In the forest, Amanda had arrived at the crash site. The police had cleaned up the site, so she couldn’treplace anything useful around other than the marks the car left when it flipped over.

She knew something was wrong when she saw the crash site at first sight. Why did Elias drive into theforest? How did the car flip over? It more or less has to do with the steering wheel, which caused thedriver to lose control over the direction. Was there something wrong with the car? Knowing Elias, hisluxury cars must go through regular car maintenance. Such a fault is unlikely to happen unlesssomebody is behind

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She remembered the call Grace had in the hospital. The other details also suggested that the accidentwas planned.

I wish Elias was here. At least I can ask him what happened during the accident.

A man’s deep voice came from behind without a warning. “What are you doing?”

The unexpected voice startled her. Amanda turned around in the direction of the voice with. widenedeyes. She sighed in relief and patted her chest to soothe her heartbeat when she found Elias standingthere.

“You nearly scared me to death! Don’t come up behind me without making a sound!”

Elias took a few steps forward and stopped before her. “I wasn’t trying to hide the sound of myfootsteps when I walked here. It’s just that you’re preoccupied with your thoughts.”

His honesty left her speechless as she indeed wasn’t paying attention to her surroundings earlier.

“What are you doing here?” Elias repeated.

Amanda tilted her chin at the area. “I came here to check on the site. By the way, I have a question foryou. What exactly happened that day? Why did you drive the car into the forest?”

Her question put a slight frown on his face. What made her start investigating the accident? Does sheknow something?

“What did you replace?”

“Oh. There’s nothing so far, but it gives me a strange feeling. After all, I know you’re a skillful driver.Knowing you, you wouldn’t have driven off the road into the forest during a rainy day.

Since Amanda hadn’t found solid evidence, she kept her answer vague.

“I lost control over the steering wheel that day, Elias mused out loud. When the accident happened, hetried to grab the steering wheel, only to replace he didn’t have control over it. Therefore, his car ran straightinto the forest. He couldn’t remember what happened afterward.

“I see. There’s one more thing. You studied computer science at university, right? I remember that youinvented a mini listening device in the past. Do you still have it? Did you launch it into the

market?”

Amanda remembered replaceing out about the products Elias researched four years ago, and it made hima genius in her mind. A listening device, which was as thin as paper, he was developing four years agocame to her mind. She dared to call it the pinnacle of listening devices. However, she no longer paidattention to its development, so she was wondering if he had launched it into the market or not.

Elias was taken aback by her question. I didn’t expect her to remember it after all these years.

“No, I didn’t. It takes a high cost and a long time to complete, so Grandpa advised against putting it onthe market.”

“I see. Fine, then.” Amanda was disappointed to hear that. After all, she was somehow fond of theproduct.

The disappointment on her face didn’t go unnoticed by him. He prompted, “Are you interested in it?Even though it’s not in the market, I have a few samples with me.”

“Are you serious? Can I have one?”

“Who are you going to use the device on?” Elias squinted his eyes unhappily. Not only was his curiositybugging him, he felt jealousy rooted in his mind.

Who is the person that is worth Amanda’s attention?

An excuse occurred to her. “A lawyer always needs to gather evidence. I need to collect the evidencefor a case. Can I borrow the device from you?”

Even though her excuse didn’t convince Elias entirely, he decided to lend her the bug.

“Sure. You need my help to install it, though. Where are you going to install it? At home or on a

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phone?”

“On a phone, obviously.”

Amanda planned to install the device on Grace’s phone, so she could learn whether the woman wasresponsible for the accident or not..

“I left them at home. You have to come home with me to take it,” Elias explained in a low voice.

“Lead the way.” Amanda gave him a curt answer. The reason for her urge to replace out the truth.remained unknown to herself.

Amanda returned to the manor with Elias.

The pair went into the study room. Elias took out the micro listening device before reaching out hispalm to her. “Give me the phone.”

“Sure!” She immediately gave him her phone.

The next moment, he brought her phone and the device to his computer before he inserted a bunch ofcommands into the computer. He slowly began. “Now the device is bound to your phone. You can stick

it to the other phone. When the owner gets a call on their phone, you’ll receive a notification on yoursas well. From that time on, you can listen to their conversation.”

Elias’ explanation was mesmerizing. She had to admit that he was a charismatic person. Moreover, hewas wealthy and talented. She could see why women threw themselves at him.

“I understand. Thank you.”

She took the listening device and studied it as if it was a treasure. He’s a genius to create such anunassuming device. People would never catch it.

Elias studied her side profile and he couldn’t help but shoot her a question. “Who are you intending touse it on? Is it a man or a woman?”

“A man” His curiosity would only get in her way. Therefore, Amanda gave him the opposite

answer.

It put a scowl between his brows. “A man?”

The words drove him mad. Is she tapping a man’s phone? Who is it? Is it Simon?

Amanda lowered her voice and whispered, “A female client of mine’s husband cheated on her. Sheasked me to gather evidence of her husband’s affair. The bug will come in handy.”

Her words smoothened the creases between Elias’ brows and somehow eased his mind.

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“Remember to tell me once you put the device on your target’s phone. I’ll turn on the permission to taptheir phone when they’re on a call.”

“No problem. I’ve got to go. And you’d best take care of yourself.”

After that, Amanda turned to leave.

At that moment, a thought occurred to her. She turned around to watch the man sitting behind the desk.“Aren’t you supposed to stay in the hospital for recovery? Why did you come back here?”

“It’s boring to stay in the hospital. It’s the same staying at home.”

“Sure, but don’t run around like that with an injury, alright? Your wound might reopen and get aninfection. With that final reminder, she finally left for the door.

Elias wanted to ask her to stay, but her receding figure sent a pang of pain through his heart.

She’s a heartless and ungrateful woman.