"How on Earth Evan is involved in this?" with hopeful eyes of a child Jas squeezed Evan’s shoulder, "Tell them, you didn’t do this. You have nothing to do with this man’s death. Even if no one believe, I will believe you."
Seeing tears rolling down Jas’ eyes, Evan’s bottom lips quivered. He growled, wanting to reach out to wipe his tears, but the guards cuffed his hands.
"WHERE ARE YOU TAKING HIM? STOP IT," Jas yanked the cuffs. "It’s a misunderstanding. Don’t do this, Susu. My Evan--"
"He’s not Evan!" Jas’ grip on the cuffs loosened, everything inside him went still, "The real Evan Ricci died over a year back." At Wang Shi’s order, Lu Xion’s team in France got the Ricci family’s properties and ho checked. They stumbled into a bone-chilling scene. A horror show.
At the ancestral ho’s basent were lying seven skeletons, scattered around in a most inhuman way. Butchered.
Two won and five n.
It was the entire Ricci family, including the real Evan Ricci.
"They were all murdered, Jamie. Isn’t it the sa ti when Evan ca into your life?" Suyin helped Wang Shi to stand up and supported him on her shoulder. "Get a wheelchair. Ge, call Dr. Colton ASAP, the number is in my phone."
She paused in her steps and looked between Evan and Jas, "I don’t know with what purpose he entered our lives, but whatever it is, he’s up to no good. I’ll explain to you everything later, but first Shishi needs to get this bullet out of his shoulder."
Behind her, Jas took a shaky step away from Evan, looking as the guards take him away. For so reason, he couldn’t avert his eyes from Evan’s face, searching if he could really kill soone. It made him sick to think of Evan as soone who used him as a ans to fulfill a personal goal.
All sound lost to the faint voices, reminiscing of the ti they had spent together-- and none of them say Evan can betray him.
......
Frantic. Anxious. Worried. Helpless. Jas wanted the answers like NOW. Every passing second was a nightmare for him. He ran to where Suyin was waiting for Wang Shi’s surgery to get over.
"GET OUT, EVERYONE." He snarled, "I want to talk to you. Don’t you dare brush off with excuses. I don’t care about your boyfriend when mine is airlifted just now. I want the answers, dammit."
Zeng, "Can’t you-"
"Leave us alone," Suyin said. She just sat there in the waiting room, staring at the floor, her shoulders slumped as if sothing’s bothering her. Zeng wanted to go up to her when he felt a press at his shoulder and looked up; Si Han shook her head.
Si Han, "Don’t interfere between them. Co out with ."
Suyin looked up at a screeching sound of a pull of a chair and Jas seated himself facing her, ready to interrogate. She looked down at his shaking hands and reached out.
"DON’T, I WANT ANSWERS." Jas crossed his hand on his chest, "Last ti also you almost created a misunderstanding between us by saying you saw him in the street but it turned out Evan was here to surprise ."
"He lied." she said, "He never left the country all this while." she phone dialed her mother and asked her to send her IPad in. It was with Zeng. In no ti Si Han ca in to give Suyin’s IPad. "listen to this...."
[Oh! So you are here?]
[B-Beta?]
[You better die]
The audio ended up with painful grunts, and screams of Gilbert, followed by a gunshot.
Jas recognized the owners of the voice. He looked up at Suyin in question. But instead of answering, she next opened a video of a masked man jumping off a wall, zooming on a locket.
"Can you recognize it?" She asked, and Jas’ expression was the answer to her question.
It was because of the locket that Suyin doubted Evan at first. The familiarity of the locket was too striking for her to overlook it. She just couldn’t stop herself from thinking about it; it was as if everything was in her brain, she just couldn’t grab it.
It was then when things clicked suddenly. She had seen it on Evan.
Once she had bumped into Jas and Evan almost making out on the couch. That day when Evan bolted up and buttoned his shirt in haste, she noticed the locket. The locket’s intricate design of a serpent wrapped around the letter A was too eye-catching for Suyin to ignore.
To confirm, she instantly checked her photo gallery. Once Jas had sent his and Evan’s picture sleeping on the bed while Jas was stealing a kiss from him in the morning.
The locket matched!
After that, it was easy for Suyin to collect further information on Evan as Wang Shi had Xion and Xiu i to help him.
Xiu i checked Evan’s passport; not so surprisingly, he never left the country for France.
Despite this evidence, she gave a benefit of doubt to Evan for Jas’ sake and planned to use Gilbert as a bait to lure the masked man out to see if he was Evan or soone else. But plans rarely go as planned.
Because of the sudden accusation of Xeumo’s death, they changed their plan and decided to use Xeumo to trap both Gilbert and his acquaintance.
"Xeumo was already dead when Assistant Long found her, but we showed it as if she’s alive." The chances of the plan’s failure were high as being a doctor Gilbert must have had confird Xeumo’s death before placing her in Assistant Long’s car. However, when Wang Shi decided to step up, she was certain no one will ever doubt her claim.
And that’s what happened.
"We didn’t find any markings on Xeumo’s arm or anything. It was a trap and Zeng helped us; rember he was the one coordinating with Shishi?" Jas looked at her shocked, understanding the reason behind Zeng’s weird behavior. He was just nervous, that it. "My first hope in Evan crushed when he contacted and asked to let him in."
For Jas’s sake, Suyin held on to the last hope and gave Evan another chance. Yet, Evan lost that chance as well....
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