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Chapter 405
Endless silence spread in the ward. It was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
Maeve felt a little awkward. Yesterday, she said that she needed some time to think about it, but in the blink of an eye, she returned to this ward.
Coupled with the fact that she had just experienced a life–and–death crisis last night, she felt that it was too pretentious to have the thought of breaking up over such a small matter.
She didn’t want to be so pretentious, but… she couldn’t control herself.
There was a knock on the door and then Archer pushed it open.
“Ms. Reese,” Archer greeted Maeve politely.
Maeve nodded at him and saw him walking quickly to the sofa. He lowered his voice and said, “Mr. Mcdaniel, we have a lead.”
“Hmm?” Byron said indifferently, “Speak.”
Archer told him the results of his hard–earned investigation.
Maeve was deliberately lured to the Mcdaniel family’s old residence. On the way, he was knocked unconscious and thrown into the sea. It was Henry’s doing.
The bodyguard who had been secretly protecting Maeve was also plotted against by his accomplices.
However, this time, they only caught Henry’s accomplice and let him escape.
That accomplice had been in cahoots with Henry for many years and knew a lot.
For example, if Maeve died, her studio and the money under her name would all be taken over by Henry, her only relative
It didn’t matter if they couldn’t find the jewelry.
Henry had done it very secretly. The person who hired the murderer was an accomplice. He had not been stained with any danger from the beginning to the end. Even if they investigated, no one could say that he was the murderer.
Maeve’s blood almost froze when she heard that. Her lips were as white as snow.
A sense of powerlessness that she had never felt before swept through her entire body. She slowly lay down and stared blankly at the ceiling.
She did not pay attention to what Archer said after that.
“Investigate further. There must be someone behind him.” Byron lowered his voice. “With his ability, he can’t bribe the Mcdaniel family’s old servant to work for him.”
In his opinion, Henry’s existence was more like a puppet.
What really mattered was the mastermind behind everything.
Archer immediately understood. “Yes, I understand.”
The ward quickly fell silent again.
Byron did not deliberately pay attention to Maeve’s movements His expression could be said to be calm and indifferent.
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As someone who had just been broken up last night, his pride and rationality prevented him from rushing to coax her.
He didn’t know what had caused her to misunderstand that he treated her as his bed partner again and again.
He had already explained this for many times. If she was unwilling to listen, then he had nothing to say.
His patience with her, or Lino, would run out one day.
Maeve turned her back to him and gradually fell asleep in confusion and fear.
When she woke up again, the sky was already bright outside the window.
She was the only one left in the ward. Byron and the two little ones were not around.
There was also a commotion outside the door.
Maeve washed up and walked out. Just as she was about to go out to take a look, the ward door was pushed open.
A group of foreigners in police uniforms barged in and showed her their IDs. “Are you Maeve? We’re from the Serious Crimes Unit of the Erancia Police Department. You’re suspected of participating in a jewelry robbery more than twenty years ago. We want to investigate you personally.”
After saying that, they didn’t give Maeve a chance to ask and directly handcuffed her.
Maeve was stunned. ‘What the hell is this? I has just been born more than twenty years ago!‘
“Wait!” Archer squeezed through the door. When he saw this scene, his expression was quite serious. “Please show your identification and an international arrest warrant.”
The police of Erancia showed their documents, but they could not produce an arrest warrant.
Archer sneered. “In that case, I’m afraid you have no right to handcuff our citizens and treat her as a prisoner.”
Before Mr. Mcdaniel entered the operating theater, he had instructed Archer to take good care of Ms. Reese. He could not let her be hurt at all.
If he couldn’t even do such a small thing, he wouldn’t even need Mr. Mcdaniel to tell him to scram.
The Erancia police officer looked unhappy. “We have the right to detain and interrogate suspects. Are you interfering with our case?”
“This is Setigal, not Erancia.” Archer did not back down. “When you’re on our land, you have to follow our laws and regulations. Otherwise, I’ll sue you for illegally restricting the personal freedom of our citizens.”
The Erancia policeman’s face was ashen. He took out his phone and called the Kleymond headquarters.
As the chief special assistant under Byron, Archer was naturally not to be trifled with.
“Sh*t!” The leader of the Erancia policemen cursed. He undid the handcuffs on Maeve and left angrily with his men. Maeve rubbed her wrist and looked at Archer in confusion. “Archer, what happened? Why are these people arresting me?”
“Ms. Reese, someone publicized online that your father was a jewelry thief who committed a crime many years ago. They even posted your DNA test report, attracting the international police who were in charge of this case back then.” Archer sighed. “The Internet is in a mess now. It’s best if you don’t look at it.”
The international police would definitely demand that Maeve be brought back to the country for investigation.
When it came to their territory, even the Mcdaniel Group could not interfere.
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Therefore, Maeve could not be detained.
Maeve’s thin brows were tightly knitted, and her expression was not very good. “Has Henry been arrested?”
Archer shook his head. “No, that’s why they want to catch you.”
She was Henry’s biological daughter and was the best bait to lure him out.
They did not care if their father–daughter relationship was good or not. Maeve was still a child who knew nothing many years ago.
These people did things based on results, not process.
*****However, the worst outcome occurred.
The Erancia police received a special arrest warrant and temporarily detained Maeve.
Byron was still in the operating theater. Archer alone could not stop them.
After all, Maeve was a citizen of Setigal. Other than locking her up and putting mental and verbal pressure on her to tell her everything she knew, the police of Erancia could not torture her
At the same time, the internet was about
to turn upside down.
The most discussed topic was none other than how to treat the offender’s descendants.
Extremists believed that the offspring of criminals inherited bad genes and were crooked from the bottom of their hearts. It was fine to be an ordinary person, but if they were famous, it would cause extremely serious negative impact on society and the people. It was best to ban them.
Moderates, on the other hand, believed that they could not kill a boatload of people in one go. Children did not have the right to choose their parents. Furthermore, Maeve was stolen from a young age and grew up beside his adoptive parents. It could be said that he had nothing to do with his biological parents. They could not pin the blame on her.
The onlookers were much purer. They only wanted to know where the jewelry went. They heard that it was worth tens of billions.
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