Chapter 75: Suspicion Aroused

Alex waited patiently as he watched Professor James continue making his fake call. It was more than obvious that Professor James was just using this call as a way to escape from whatever Alex was about to attack him with. So Alex tried his best to keep calm as the police continued to read through their files of reports which were made by Mirabel concerning everything, the poisoning and also the lady who was in the hospital and in a concussion because of what happened. 

“So you're trying to tell me that two people have been affected?” 

“With this herb, she was trying to eliminate one person and the other maid, not knowing anything about it, also ate from this same poison and now she's in a concussion state and is not even breathing well. And you think she would not survive? So because of that, Lily is to be imprisoned, right?” 

The policeman said to Mirabel, who nodded.

“Yes. I explained to you thousands of times that that is the reason why Lily cannot escape easily. She… she killed two people.”

“She’s literally killing two people. If anything should happen to Isabella, then nobody would be able to escape this because I would not just watch my brother lose the one woman he cares the most about in the world. Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing must happen to her. Okay? Do you understand?” 

Mirabel yelled to the police as he scoffed.

“You really cannot yell at me or tell me what to do. Yes, nothing would happen to her because she's in the hospital and she's being guarded. Now we have to face Isabella because we have to face Lily. Lily is now our main problem. We don't know what Lily has done and we don't know if we should believe that Lily actually did anything or we should just wait and see. Do not worry. All this would be solved if Isabella is able to explain to me who exactly fed her the food; who handed the platter to her would only be said by Isabel. We have to patiently wait for her to be awakened,” the police said.

“Come in,” Alex laughed wickedly.

“What exactly are you even insinuating here? We are praying that she wakes up and you're telling us the evidence has to do with her? If she doesn't wake up, then Lily is a free person. What if, while waiting for her to wake up, Lily escapes? If she escapes, how do you plan on solving that?” 

Alex asked angrily as the police looked at him and rolled his eyes.

“Are you really trying to teach us how I work right now? Because here I am explaining to you calmly how everything would be settled and it would come to a final stop where we won't have any more problems. Only for you now to tell me that I am making the wrong decision. Do you want to take her to court?” 

“Fine, take her. Do you want to sue her for anything she did? Fine, do it. Doesn't change anything. She would still be a free person because there is no legit evidence. 

Yes, you found the herbs in Lily's bag. Of course, that is a huge, huge issue. But aside from that, did you get to know any other thing? Did you have a security camera that took footage of Lily doing it? No. A murder case is not so easy to find. Finding that someone killed another person is not so easy. And besides, none of the two victims are dead. None of the two victims are dead. So Lily is still innocent. We were going to run a full autopsy on Lily and find out if there were any signs of herbs or maybe a sprinkle on her body. Because she can't just bite and there won't even be a little on her body. If we get to find it, that is another clue. That is another way to help us. Aside from that, I don't think there's anywhere else we are going to ever just cling to Lily and make her a victim. We cannot easily make Lily a victim. Do you understand?” 

The police explained to Alex, who felt frustrated as he tried his best to hold in his anger. He turned back only to see that Professor James was nowhere to be found. 

“Where is Professor James?” 

He yelled. 

“I told you that that man has something to do with this. He has run away,” Alex yelled.

“As the other police rushed out, he did not run anywhere, okay? He asked for the men's bedroom and I took him there. He's still there and I am guiding him,” the lady said as she ran back, making Alex a bit calm as the police who was answering them laughed again.

“You guys can really frustrating someone to the very depth. Like, how do you find so much fun in acting so dumb? Why would he run away in a police station? He's not that foolish, okay? He knows exactly what he's doing and he knows he should not run or else he won't even be able to escape before his neck will be cut off his throat. So be careful and be mindful of what you see and don't make assumptions just from little things you are not sure of. Please,” the police said and then stood up as he walked into the main building, leaving Alex and Lily.

As Lily was now calm and had already cried the hell out of her eye sockets that she even felt weak sitting there. She was all weak. As Alex turned to her and made a ticking sound with his mouth.

“I cannot believe it. Yeah, I was thinking you were someone who was trying to stand up for every woman in the school. Here you were acting like you just wanted everyone to be free. You wanted everyone to be independent. But I never knew you were the foolish one. You were the senseless one who did not know how to go about everything. You just wanted Professor James to yourself. You were being greedy. And now you have seen where the greediness took you to. I hope you are enjoying it. I hope you are having a good time with everything you did. I hope this makes you happy. Watching that Isabella is laying here lifeless because of you. Because of what you did. And I hope that you would regret everything you did.” 

Alex said to Lily, who laughed and then looked at Alex angrily.

“You can't tell me what to do and you can't control me. Telling me this is what I am supposed to say and questioning me because you think I poisoned Isabella. I am just waiting patiently until the full evidence is out and Isabella is awakened. Then you get to know that I did nothing with her. I did not even have the chance to even show her that I hated her. If only I had the chance. Then you would have still watched her be alive. But being tormented. You don't know what she's doing to you. That is why you're ready to kill yourself for her. Had it been you know. Then you won't go around killing yourself just because you want to save a dead person who is even doing worse to you. You think she loves you, right? Wait until she wakes up and investigate yourself. You will know that she doesn't love you at all.” 

Lily said as Professor James quickly walked in and immediately signaled for Lily to keep quiet, which she did.