Chapter 313 - Aaron Didn't Know

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Neil was busy with the company matters as the auditing period was approaching. These days, he would often have a meeting with Jamie and a few men who were working as his spy to ensure that no one will have the chance to disturb their plan.

A trap has been set and all they were waiting for was for the corrupted directors to take the bait. Only then will be able to use those evidence and pull the General Attorney into that mess.

Although Neil had no concrete evidence that the General Attorney had done something to cause his brother's death, the other evidence of a crime that the man had done was enough to get him the death penalty. 

After Edith's last encounter with General Attorney Leng, Mike had made a trip to L City and was planning to stay with the family until the wedding. Even though Neil had promised that he will protect his granddaughter, Mike was still afraid.

He would often dream about the time he walked into the morgue and was told of everything that had happened to his daughter. Mike did not want something bad to happen to Edith and his unborn great-grandchild.

With the guise of helping Edith with the wedding, both Sophie and Lucas did not suspect anything. With Mike's presence, the house became livelier and Hazel was especially happy to be surrounded by people who would pamper her.

Neil had left for the office early in the morning. 

Seeing that his granddaughter was bored, Mike decided to take his granddaughter out for a walk. At this time, the bump on Edith's stomach had become more visible and she had wanted to shop a few things for the baby.

After walking around for a while, the grandfather and granddaughter decided to take a break and rest at a cafe. As soon as they were seated at the table, Edith's phone started to ring. She took out her phone and was surprised to see Aaron's name.

Edith swiped a finger on the screen and pressed the phone to her ear. The two friends exchanged a few words in less than two minutes before Edith hung up the phone.

"Who is that?" Mike asked. 

"Aaron. I told him that we're at the cafe and he said that he will come over to join us," Edith said.

Mike nodded. The waiter walked over to deliver their food and Mike began to urge Edith to eat a little bit more.

Edith was now in her second trimester and her morning sickness had stopped. However, her body was a little too thin and everyone around her was worried that she was not eating enough.

"Grandpa, is it alright for you to accompany me until the wedding?"

"What's wrong? You don't like me staying with you?"

Edith heaved a sigh. "I'm worried that you would be bored. I thought you love staying in Z Town. Every time you come over and visit me in the city, you always wanted to hurry back to Z Town."

"Why would I be bored? These days, that little princess is around to play with me." A smile tilted on his face as he thought of the little girl. "It's fine. Moreover, I wouldn't feel too good to let your in-laws do all the preparation for your wedding."

The two of them continued to talk about the wedding preparation until Aaron walked into the cafe.

"Grandpa Mike," Aaron greeted as soon as he saw the elderly man. 

Mike gave him a look over and nodded when he saw that Aaron was healthy and well. "How are you these days? When will you be transferred back to Z Town?"

Aaron heaved a long sigh. The waiter came and left after Aaron had placed his order of beef noodles. "I don't know," Aaron answered. "We are still investigating the serial murder and at this moment, we think that we might hit a dead end."

Hearing his words, Edigh glanced at Aaron and wonder if her grandfather had not told Aaron about his investigation.

Aaron continued to rant about the case and stopped when his noodles arrived at the table. He took a sip at the soup, a bite at the noodles, and complained that Grandpa Chen's beef noodles in Z Town were still the best he had in his life.

"At one point, we are relieved that the killer had stopped kidnapping and murdering woman," Aaron continued to talk about his case. "At the same time, we are worried. Now that the killer had stopped, we are unable to find a new lead."

It was then that Edith realized that she had not heard anything about a new case in a while. "The killer had stopped?"

Aaron nodded. "We thought that there would be a new murder, but we were wrong. We guessed that something had happened to the murder."

Edith thought about his words and wondered if something did happen to the General Attorney. However, from what Aaron had said, the murder seemed to stop after the General Attorney had visited Capital City a few months ago.

Aaron turned to Mike after giving his insight on the case and asked, "Grandpa, what do you think about this? What can you advise us to do?"

"The last time your father and I were chasing after the killer, we failed when the killings suddenly stopped," Mike said. "The only thing I can advise you to do was to continue to look again from another angle. Perhaps, you have missed something."

The three of them continued to chat and soon parted their ways with Aaron. Once they were in the vehicle, Edith turned to her grandfather and asked, "Grandpa, Aaron didn't know about General Attorney Leng?"

A deep frown appeared on Mike's face. "This was what your Uncle Li had decided. We might know that General Attorney Leng is the murderer. At least, with your mother's case, we do have evidence. However, your mother's death is slightly different than the other women's. Your mother managed to escape. After she was hit by that vehicle and left in the rain, there was some evidence on her body that had disappeared with it. This was the reason that I could not link your mother's death to the women when I was in charge of the case."

Mike looked at his granddaughter and continued, "There are reasons why Uncle Li didn't want Aaron to know. We suspected that someone in his team is working for the General Attorney. Uncle Li did not want Aaron to be in danger. Until everything is prepared, until we found out who was the person working for the General Attorney, we decided not to tell Aaron." A deep sigh escaped him. "Moreover... we are also worried that once the other party knew that there was a group of people investigating the old case, they will do something more dangerous. We worked hard for years to find the evidence.. We did not want to lose everything if the evidence falls into the wrong hand."

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