Chapter 272

He fixed his eyes on her, in cold metal handcuffs, body bruised and battered, with an extremely tiny trickle of blood from her lip. His voice remained hard, but held in it a hint of incredulity as his eyebrow raised. "You're sticking with your story?"

Her words were shaking, yet firm, and one could feel that desperation in them was just specks of fire in her eyes. "I swear I'm telling the truth, Dr. Richard. I sw-swear I gave you the right address. I dunno what kind of evidence you have, or what really is going on, but I would never lie especially on something like this."

Richard's facial expression said it all it was clear he had not been buying a single word of what she had been trying to sell. He crossed his arms against his chest. "Spare me, Emily; the address is already run. It's a dead end. You're not as clever as you think you are."

She contorted her face with pain, pulled some gaze of tears into the eyes, and said, "Please, father, at least just listen to m