The policeman paused before saying, "You know the woman?"
I nodded and asked, "How's the investigation going? Did she deliberately escape after committing murder?"
"The case is currently being investigated..."
The policeman's words were interrupted by a burst of ringtone. He walked aside and answered the call. After a while, he came back to me.
I looked at him eagerly. He was silent for a while before saying slowly, "Kate has been interrogated at the police station of Yrore and has been acquitted."
...
"Is she acquitted?"
I stood up abruptly, looking agitated. "Why?"
"She insisted that she had hit someone. The incident happened at about nine p.m. There was no light at the entrance of the resort, so she couldn't see the situation on the road clearly. She only remembered that her car shook when she passed by the roadside of Ponset Resort.
"She thought she had hit a stone. Your daughter was probably squatting on the side of the road at that time. The car hooked her clothes, so she was dragged all the way to the highway. Kate didn't know what happened next.
"There were no surveillance cameras on that road. No witnesses were present at that time. We went to the scene for investigation and found nothing else."
Seeing that I was getting more and more disappointed, he continued,
"Ms. Hill expressed her willingness to compensate for the damage thus caused."
"I don't want her compensation. I just want the truth!"
I asked, stressing each word, "Are you going to let her go just like that?"
The police officer was silent for a long time before saying in a low voice, "Her boyfriend is a top lawyer. After she confessed, the lawyer answered all the subsequent questions."
"A top lawyer?"
A bone-chilling chill rose from the soles of my feet.
"Is her lawyer John Smith?"
The policeman's face changed as he said, "You know John Smith?"
I sneered and said, "John Smith is my husband I just called."
The policeman was torn. He wanted to say something but stopped on second thought.
"How about the driving recorder? Is there no driving recorder?"
I grabbed his arm excitedly as if I were trying to grab the last straw.
"... Kate said that she was frightened upon receiving our call and knowing that she had hit someone. On the way to the police station, she hit a tree on the side of the road and damaged the driving recorder."