My brother turned his eyes away forcefully and continued to stare at the Red Spider Lily in his hand.
His eyes were dim and his voice was hoarse when asking, “Captain, can I access my mother’s car accident case from back in the day?”
The scene of the car accident that killed my mother and my aunt so tragically also had a character that just scribbled ‘Red Spider Lily.’ However, in the end, the case was checked out and closed as an accident.
At the time, the appearance of the Red Spider Lily flower had attracted great attention from my brother and Captain Henry.
Even if one was a painting and the other was a character, which seemed unrelated, Henry believed in my brother’s intuition about the case.
My brother flipped through the case file, compared the two pictures, then exclaimed, “No way… I must have guessed wrong.”
Henry didn’t understand what he meant by this, so he asked, “Zachary, have you made an inference?”
My brother immediately shook his head and explained, “It could just be a coincidence, or Hollie couldn’t have survived back then.”
Henry knew that my brother would get easily agitated when he mentioned me, so he tentatively asked him, “Have you been in contact with Hollie recently? It’s best to remind her about this.”
My brother looked up in displeasure and stated, “Captain Henry, didn’t I tell you? She has nothing to do with me.”
Henry immediately pursued a question, “In other words, she has never contacted you since that day?”
My brother became more and more puzzled.
“I’m sick of her. Why do you keep asking about her?”
I laughed bitterly on the sidelines. Well, you wouldn’t have to worry about me bothering you anymore, brother.
“Captain, experts from the province’s Major Crimes Unit are here and asking to see Mr. Fuentes.”
The female police officer ran in to report, breaking the awkward atmosphere.
“Looking for me?”
“Yes, he specifically asked for Mr. Fuentes.”
Henry glanced at my brother with a frown on his face before ordering him, “Zachary, hurry up, come and see them. I’ll let you know if there’s any new progress about the case.”
In the reception room, the team leader, Eugene Johns, asked him with a serious look on his face, “Mr. Fuentes, have you contacted your sister recently?”
My brother was puzzled when she heard about it, so he couldn’t help asking, “We had breakfast together this morning. What are you….”