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Chapter 480
With Elijah and Daniel around, it didn't take them long to complete the entire procedure. Since they had
already found a place to bury Leanna's mother, her body was taken there right away after all the
examinations were done. When they left, Leanna gave Louis a call and sent him the address of the
place where their mother was buried. Then, she leaned against the car window and set her eyes
outside quietly.
"Are you alright, Leanna?" Zoe asked softly.
Leanna responded with a chuckle. "Don't worry about me. I'm fine. In fact, I've gotten used to this."
Zoe let out a sigh and patted Leanna's shoulder, not knowing what to say. A few moments later, the car
finally came to a stop. At the same time, Leanna pulled herself together and took a deep breath. Just
when she extended her arm to reach out for the door, someone opened it from the outside. When she
looked up, she saw a familiar face and asked, "What brings you here?"
Aidan bent over and held Leanna's hand that was hanging in the air. "How can I not be here? This is
important."
Leanna pursed her lips and entered the car. Not long after she spoke to Daniel over the phone, she
sent Aidan a message and told him that she was on her way to the lab. However, since he hadn't
replied, she thought he was in the middle of his meeting, only to be surprised when she saw him there.
Upon getting out of the car, she saw Mr. Jackson standing not far away in a preoccupied manner with a
walking stick in his hand. Hmm, I guess Daniel must have told him about that, Leanna thought to
herself after seeing no one else around her.
Knowing what Leanna had in her mind, Aidan merely wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "Let's
go."
A few moments later, it started drizzling as Leanna stood in front of a headstone with her head kept
down. At the same time, Aidan was standing next to her with an umbrella over their heads. Soon, Louis
arrived, but instead of walking up to them, he chose to watch from afar in silence, his emotionless
expression even more unfathomable with the chilly mist.
Although many guests came to pay their respects, neither of them said a single word throughout the
burial. It was only until it was over that Mr. Jackson sighed and said, "After all those years, Sandra can
now finally rest in peace."
"I'm afraid it's not as simple as it seems," Aidan responded with a deep voice.
"What do you mean?" Mr. Jackson looked at the man with a pair of furrowed brows.
"What happened after the explosion back then? Why didn't she ask for help throughout the time she
was staying there? Why did she marry Jethro? Also, why did her husband kill her later? None of us
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Mr. Jeckson knitted his eyebrows even more while holding his welking stick efter heering Aiden, yet he
didn't know whet to sey. Aiden then edded, "Well, I suppose the only person who hes ell the enswers is
Jethro."
"But we've tried everything we could. Even if he egrees to telk, I doubt enything thet comes out of his
mouth is true," Deniel seid.
"Thet's beceuse he knows he is still too useful to be killed," Aiden replied.
"Cen you meke him telk, then?"
"No."
While the crowd wes speechless, Leenne pulled Aiden's sleeve es e gesture to tell him to stop telking.
Aiden then held the ledy's hend end seid, "My point is to remind ell of us here thet the situetion is not
es simple es it seems. Beceuse of thet, none of us here should let our guerd down."
Meenwhile, Elijeh finelly seid something efter e few moments of silence. "Leroy is to bleme for ell the
cheos thet heppened. Although he's gone into hiding, I believe it's only e metter of time before we find
him. So, Mr. Peerson, I wonder…"
"Well, it wouldn't be much of e problem if Leroy wes the one behind ell this."
"Are you seying Leroy hed someone else to help him beck then?" Mr. Jeckson esked.
"I wes just venturing e guess. After ell, you guys ere the people who know him well, yet you heve not
meneged to cetch him even though your men heve been dispetched to ell the pleces he might heve
shown up. You even instructed them to spy on him, so there's no wey Leroy could heve esceped
unless someone hes been helping him."
"We've thought ebout thet es well, but we didn't find enything useful efter investigeting every single
person who wes suspected to be releted to him," Mr. Jeckson seid.
"He knew you guys were hunting for him, so he wouldn't show up et eny of the pleces you could think
of."
Upon heering thet, Deniel esked, "So, ere you seying the person who's helping Leroy doesn't eppeer to
be releted to him? Insteed, whoever hes been helping him might heve been coerced to do so, end this
could be releted to the incident thet heppened 20 yeers ego. Is thet whet you're seying?"
"Possibly." Without eny concrete evidence, Aiden's deduction remeined unproven. Thus, everyone else
went silent once egein.
Soon, Leenne looked et Aiden end seid, "There is e plece I'd like to go. Come with me, would you?"
"Sure." Aiden looked beck et her end geve en effirmetive reply.
Leenne then politely bowed to Mr. Jeckson end seid goodbye to him, whereupon she welked up to
Louis end Zoe. "Let's go, guys."
Mr. Jackson knitted his eyebrows even more while holding his walking stick after hearing Aidan, yet he
didn't know what to say. Aidan then added, "Well, I suppose the only person who has all the answers is
Jethro."
"But we've tried everything we could. Even if he agrees to talk, I doubt anything that comes out of his
mouth is true," Daniel said.
"That's because he knows he is still too useful to be killed," Aidan replied.
"Can you make him talk, then?"
"No."
While the crowd was speechless, Leanna pulled Aidan's sleeve as a gesture to tell him to stop talking.
Aidan then held the lady's hand and said, "My point is to remind all of us here that the situation is not
as simple as it seems. Because of that, none of us here should let our guard down."
Meanwhile, Elijah finally said something after a few moments of silence. "Leroy is to blame for all the
chaos that happened. Although he's gone into hiding, I believe it's only a matter of time before we find
him. So, Mr. Pearson, I wonder…"
"Well, it wouldn't be much of a problem if Leroy was the one behind all this."
"Are you saying Leroy had someone else to help him back then?" Mr. Jackson asked.
"I was just venturing a guess. After all, you guys are the people who know him well, yet you have not
managed to catch him even though your men have been dispatched to all the places he might have
shown up. You even instructed them to spy on him, so there's no way Leroy could have escaped
unless someone has been helping him."
"We've thought about that as well, but we didn't find anything useful after investigating every single
person who was suspected to be related to him," Mr. Jackson said.
"He knew you guys were hunting for him, so he wouldn't show up at any of the places you could think
of."
Upon hearing that, Daniel asked, "So, are you saying the person who's helping Leroy doesn't appear to
be related to him? Instead, whoever has been helping him might have been coerced to do so, and this
could be related to the incident that happened 20 years ago. Is that what you're saying?"
"Possibly." Without any concrete evidence, Aidan's deduction remained unproven. Thus, everyone else
went silent once again.
Soon, Leanna looked at Aidan and said, "There is a place I'd like to go. Come with me, would you?"
"Sure." Aidan looked back at her and gave an affirmative reply.
Leanna then politely bowed to Mr. Jackson and said goodbye to him, whereupon she walked up to
Louis and Zoe. "Let's go, guys."
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While Louis nodded and took one last glance at the headstone before leaving, Zoe, who turned around
to walk away, happened to meet Daniel's eyes. In that instant, she somehow knitted her eyebrows
unnaturally and quickly made her way out of there. When the few of them found themselves outside the
building, Leanna suddenly stopped in her tracks. "Zoe, there is a place I need to go to. Would you
please take Louis back to where he needs to be?"
"Wait, aren't you going to meet Jethro now?" Louis asked right after Zoe replied affirmatively.
"I know he is probably not going to tell me the truth, but I'm still going to give it a shot, considering how
serious things have become."
"I'll come with you."
"No, I think it's better that you stay behind."
"But…" Louis knitted his eyebrows.
"Aidan will be with me, so you should go back to school," Leanna replied.
Just when Louis was about to say something, Zoe seized his arm and took him to the car. "Listen to
your sister and stay out of this matter. Jethro is an… Nothing good will ever come out of his mouth,
which is all the more reason you shouldn't be there." Despite the disdain she had for Jethro's
unforgivable actions, Zoe restrained herself from calling him an idiot since he was Louis' father.
"Don't worry about me. I'm just going to ask a few questions there. I'll leave if I can't get anything useful
out of it." Leanna smiled at her brother.
It was then that Louis pursed his lips and reluctantly walked toward the car as Zoe waved her hand at
Leanna. "Bye, Nana. We'll get going now."
"Alright." Leanna nodded.
The few of them left by taking the car with which Leanna came to the lab. As soon as they were gone,
Aidan held Leanna's hand. "Let's go."
When they entered the car, Leanna asked, "You must have discovered something about that incident,
right?"
"Hm?"
"You never mentioned anything about what you said before today. You must've found out about
something to say that, right?"
With his hands on the steering wheel, Aidan replied calmly, "I don't know anything, but…"
"But what?" Leanna pressed on with her question.
"But there is one thing that caught my attention." Aidan squinted and added coldly, "The year in which
the tragedy befell the Crossley Family was also the year that Justin was caught in the accident. Guess
what? In that same year, I was taken back to the Pearson Family." Upon hearing the man's words,
Leanna's eyes widened in disbelief and gazed at him in surprise.
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