Facade

It was 2:00 pm in Nathan’s office at the police station. 

“Ms. Youngworth, I have good news and bad news for you.” 

Nathan took a deep drag from his cigarette before snuffing the butt against the ashtray. 

Hera waved the smoke may, a look of disgust apprent on her face. Before she could sprok up, Nathan’s voice cut her off. 

“The good news is, we finally found Isabella and her mother” 

His words elicited a frown from Hecaimmediately. Il Nathan chose to start with the good news instead of the bad news, that could only mean that the bad news carried more weight in this case. 

“What’s the bad news?” she asked 

“We found their corpses.” As Nathan spoke, he pulled out a case folder from his drawer and passed it to Hera 

Hera lowered her gaze slightly, her long and thick eyelashes fanning out from her eyelids, as she gazed at the brown paper envelope. 

Even though she was already mentally prepared for the bad news after receiving Nathan’s call this morning, she was still saddened by the news. 

Hera was only acquainted with Isabella briefly, so she didn’t care about Isabella. In fact, kabella was the daughter of the driver who had killed Daphne back then. 

Still, babella was stilla human being To think that she’d die just like that 

Did she go missing just because she had mentioned Robin back then? Did that lead to her death? 

“The authorities found the victims‘ bodies in adam located near Southburrow a week ago, by the time the bodies were fished out of the water, they were already severely decomposed. 

“Back then, the forensic doctor had deduced that the victims were dead for over a dozen days, so the authorities weren’t able to determine the victims‘ identities. 

“Three days ago, the local police department issued a notice for the other police departments to help Investigate the victims‘ identities. After I received the news, traveled to Southburrow right away. After nirring tests on the bodies‘ DNA, I was able to determine the victims as bubella and her mother “ 

Nathan book a sip out of his coffee mug before coming. “The case of death is the sudden influx of liquid into the wetime‘ aways, which caused asphyxiation to occur. In other words, they drowned. 

in the sewere destruction of the crime 

“The victims time of death had taken place far too long ago, not to mention a few storms had occured since their deaths. This resulted in the se 

scene. 

“Of course, the public security camera installed near the road outside the dam was down during those three days. The authorities aren’t able to deduce if murder, suicide, or an accident is on the table here. But in the end, they wrapped up the case after labeling it as an accidental death.” 

“This is against the rules, right? You’re in charge of missing people’s cons. Now that they found the missing victim’s body, shouldn’t you be the one launching a thorough investigation before wrapping it up? 

Heranaised her head to look at Nathan calmly. 

There were too many abnormalities surrounding Isabella’s disappearance back then. Typically spealong, since isabella’s case was lodged in Norburgh, the police in charge should be the ones closing the case.. 

The fact that the authorities of Southberrow closed the case so haphazardly could only meething–something fishy was going on. 

“That’s the reason why I invited you over to my office.” 

Nathan rose from his chair and moved to stand by the window. He cracked the window open slightly before lighting another cigarette. 

The reason why Isabella’s missing person case could be built was because she was a few days away from reaching her 18th birthday. That meant she was a minor during her time of disappearance, thus fitting the criteria of filing an underaged victim’s missing person case, 

Once the case was built, Nathan took queenie back to the station for questioning, seeing as she was the biggest suspect then. But Queenie was able to prove her innocence, was released after that 

Nathan had no choice but to lead his team on a search for Isabella. Unfortunately, all his efforts were for naught Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

A few days later, Isabella officially turned 18 years old. Since the police couldn’t find any other clues that suggested the possibility of abduction isabella’s case became a regular missing person case. 

Hence, her case was no longer labeled as a case meant for the criminal investigation department. This meant Nathan couldn’t use the force’s resources to aid his investigation regarding the case. 

He could only use his spare time when he was off duty to continue looking for clues regarding Isabella’s disappearance. 

It wasn’t unni Nathan the notice issued by Southburrow’s police department three days ago that he found out the truth. But Isabella and her mother’s deaths resulted in a new case being built in Southburrow instead. 

police department doesn’t want to escalate this incident, so 

Southburrow taking part in the Urban Utopia Competition as contestant. The higher–ups of the Southburrow police they decided to close the case prematurely” 

Alter Nathan was done speaking, he inhaled another lungful of smoke silently. 

Goldwind blew through the gap at that moment. Hera felt the wind slapping her cheeks and Boying with her lock 

She understood the situation right away. Isabella and her mother were just two regular people without prominent backgrounds. If the police chose to label their deaths as accidental deaths and close the case just like that, no one in this world would demand the case to be reapened. 

Even if someone did do that, there were still people powerful enough to override this decision. Besides, it was hand for regular people to demand a case to be open anyway. That was unless the person making the demands had strong connections and an influential background that allowed them to fight back against the authorities and the 

*Thank you, Captain Olson, Herald while rising to her feet. 

orize that could lead to a lurauthrough in Hera’s Investigation of Daphne’s accident. But now, this load was pone 

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All Hera knew was that she was heading in the right direction. Daphne’s death was no accident–it was a premeditated murder. 

The cause of Isabella and her mother’s deaths was definitely murder, too. 

Hera’s role as an investigator was most likely revealed to the mastermind. The bad thing was that the mastermind lurked in the dark while she remained unaware of their identity. “If you want to keep investigating, you can start by investigating the Gaskell family,” Nathan stated all of a sudden.