She Killed My Father-in-Law, and My Husband Protected HerChapter 1
My father-in-law was dragged for a kilometer by a drunk female driver on his way home from a late-night community dance.
When I received the call, he was lying in the morgue, his face unrecognizable.
After watching the surveillance video provided by the police, I gnashed my teeth in anger and swore to seek justice for my father-in-law.
But the next day, my husband met me at a restaurant and slammed a document in my face.
“Emily Carter, the dead cannot return. Your father is gone, but Natalie is only twenty-one—she still has the best years ahead of her. You can’t be so heartless as to make her waste her youth tied to a dead man!”
“Sign the agreement, and I’ll give you fifty thousand dollars as compensation for your father. This case is finished.”
“Otherwise, you won’t get a cent!”
I didn’t sign.
Later, Daniel Carter kept his word and didn’t let me receive a single dime.
But he knelt on the courthouse steps, smashing his forehead until it bled, begging for a retrial!
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“You—what did you just say?”
“Fifty thousand? Settle privately?”
I stared at Daniel, momentarily stunned.
The one lying in the morgue now is his father!
When Daniel was a child, his family was destitute. His mother, unable to endure the hardship, abandoned him in his cradle and ran off with another man.
It was his father-in-law who raised him alone.
To protect him from any harm, he never remarried.
“Why? Do you think it’s too little?”
I opened my mouth, my voice trembling as I explained, “This isn’t about the money, Daniel.”
“The man in the accident, he… he… was our father!”
I was afraid he wouldn’t accept it, so I spoke cautiously.
But he glanced at his watch and frowned impatiently.
“I know. You don’t need to keep repeating it.”
“Since you don’t think it’s too little, then just sign it. Don’t waste my time—I have things to do.”
I flipped open the agreement in front of me, unsure where to begin, until a line of words pierced my eyes, making my pupils contract sharply.
It actually described my father-in-law bending over to tie his shoelaces as an intentional scam.
Because he was supposedly scamming Natalie, he happened to be unwell and failed to notice her condition.
This was a complete reversal of right and wrong.
I clutched the thin sheet of paper and asked Daniel, “Did you go to the police station and watch the surveillance video?”