Chapter 928: Chapter 928: Tearing Off the Mask
Emma Winton glanced at the cleaner, “Are you sure it’s me?”
Emma’s voice carried a hint of threat, and the cleaner instinctively stepped back a bit. Joseph Sanders raised his hand to support the cleaner auntie, “It’s okay, don’t be afraid of her, just say what you know.”
The cleaner auntie pursed her lips and seemed to gain some confidence, “I’m sure, the people I saw were definitely the two of you.”
“Now it seems all it takes to slander someone is mere words.”
Emma shook her head with a bitter smile, “I didn’t do any of the things you just mentioned, and I don’t know why you’re accusing me. Are you targeting me just because you can’t find the real culprit who hurt Zoey Sanders?”
“Wyatt Lewis, you’ve always liked to suspect me with malice, and you’re doing it again now. If you hate me, just say so, why go through all this?”
“If you truly haven’t done it, why did they track it back to you?” Aria Richardson walked in with two police officers.
Seeing the police come in, Chloe Woods instinctively stepped back in panic, but Emma quickly glanced at her, and Chloe stood up straight pretending to be calm.
Emma’s gaze fell on Aria Richardson, “So you called the police. It’s just as well they are here; I also want to know why they traced it back to me if I haven’t done it. Is someone trying to frame me because they have a grudge?”
“There’s both witness and material evidence, what are you still arguing about?”
Wyatt Lewis, seeing her continue to involve others at this point, thought she was shameless to the extreme.
“Witnesses are just your so-called witnesses, even if that’s useful, okay, then what about material evidence?” Emma looked at them calmly.
The bodyguard immediately brought forward the twenty thousand given to the cleaner.
“This money was given by you as hush money to keep the cleaner silent, and this is the evidence.”
“I gave it to the cleaner?” Emma mentioned this with even more composure, “I’ve never even seen this cleaner, let alone given her money. If you don’t believe me, go check my accounts.”
“It’s good that the police are here; I’m not afraid of being investigated by you. They are falsely accusing me, and I also need to clear my name, or I will be covered with all sorts of accusations later.”
Emma appeared fearless, insisting she hadn’t done anything.
The cleaner auntie recounted what she had just said to the police again, and the police took notes.
Owen Winton stepped forward, “Officers, my daughter has no enmity whatsoever with the victim girl, so she has no reason to harm her.”
“Someone has identified you now; whether you harmed anyone isn’t up to you to decide. After we investigate, there will be a conclusion.” The officer spoke with a serious, bureaucratic tone.
Owen Winton continued, “Shouldn’t we consider more than just their one-sided testimony? I have found someone who was present at that time and can attest for my daughter.”
Owen Winton finished speaking as a bodyguard brought in a plump woman who looked around forty. She was dressed in cleaner’s clothes, just like the cleaner auntie.
“Sister Leah, why are you here too?” the cleaner auntie asked, looking at the woman named Sister Leah.
Owen Winton calmly said, “You are colleagues, quite familiar, aren’t you?”
Wyatt Lewis and the others watched Owen Winton and his daughter, unsure of what trick they were up to now.
Aria Richardson recalled Hope Williams’ words, a few traces of concern in her eyes.
Owen Winton, “I ask you, were you cleaning the restroom together at that time?”
The cleaner auntie looked at everyone and replied truthfully, “Yes, we were assigned to clean together.”
“That’s right then.” Owen Winton nodded, then looked at the cleaner named Sister Leah, “You were there too, do you have any impression of the two young ladies?”
The cleaner named Sister Leah glanced at Emma and Chloe Woods, seeming to identify them carefully and then nodded.
“I do have an impression. One of the young ladies seemed to have encountered something that made her cry very sadly, and the other young lady was comforting the crying young lady.”
The police focused their gaze on Sister Leah, took notes and asked, “What did they do afterward?”
“Afterward, they talked for a while and then left.”
“Just left? Did they do anything else?” the police asked in a stern tone.
“No, they didn’t do anything else, they left directly.”
The police, seeming to have some doubts, asked again, “How can you be so certain?”
“Because they were inside the restroom for over half an hour, it was hard not to notice them, especially since one was crying so sadly, I paid extra attention.”
Sister Leah’s words were seamless.
“That’s nonsense.” The cleaner auntie immediately stepped forward, “It’s not like she said at all.”
“I was cleaning the men’s restroom with her at the time; I left earlier and then noticed the victim girl. After inquiring a bit, it alarmed the two people in the restroom, and they chased after the girl.
I saw the whole process; it’s not like what you said at all. Moreover, you hadn’t come out of the men’s restroom at the time, so how could you see? Officer, she’s lying; someone must have told her to say this.”
Sister Leah’s loud and heavy voice drowned hers out as she loudly refuted, “I didn’t lie, I saw it at the time. You accepted someone’s money, so you’re here to slander.”
“I did accept money, I admit it, but that money was given to keep me from talking about it.”
Sister Leah straightforwardly said, “You don’t need to explain to me. I only know you accepted money; I don’t know about any hush money. What I just said is the truth.”
“You! Did you accept money? Fine, you’re accepting money here to slander.” The cleaner auntie pointed at Sister Leah, angrily accusing her vocally.
Sister Leah clapped her hands, looking enraged, “I’m barehanded; what money did I accept? You, who really accepted money, shamelessly suspect me here? I merely don’t want good people to be slandered, so I’m speaking out the truth. Officer, what I said is the truth, I’m willing to cooperate with the investigation.”
“Lies, lies, she’s lying.” The cleaner auntie’s voice was urgent, eager to defend, trying to make people believe her.
Sister Leah crossed her arms, “Everyone is just speaking with words, why say I’m lying? Why assume the liar isn’t you? You accepted the money; I didn’t. Compared to lying, you’re more likely to be the liar.”
“You… You…”
“Alright, stop arguing.” The policeman couldn’t help but speak.
If they didn’t intervene, these two aunties might end up fighting.
The two police officers exchanged a glance, with both parties sticking to their stories. After weighing what both said, it’s really unclear who the liar is since they both claimed to have witnessed it and there’s no other evidence.
Wyatt Lewis frowned deeply, his gaze dark as he looked at Emma Winton calmly sitting on the hospital bed.
Emma raised her eyebrows with a slight smile, her eyes carrying a few traces of provocation.
Since everyone had torn face, there was nothing to hide anymore.
Wyatt Lewis clenched his fists.
Owen Winton had people watching them early on, and foresaw their actions.
If they could find a witness to prove Emma guilty with mere words, he could find a witness to prove her innocent the same way.
Before the evidence was presented, who could say whose words were the truth?
“Young Master Lewis, Miss Richardson, Young Master Sanders, I know you are devastated by what happened to your sister, but you can’t just come and falsely accuse me.”
Emma Winton gave a bitter smile, looking at the few sincerely, “I understand we have conflicts, so you dislike me, but no matter how much you dislike me, slandering me isn’t right.”