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This had to be intentional.
But no one could figure out who had the power to pull off something like this.
“Get your aunt here immediately. I want answers.”
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“Since last night, we haven’t been able to reach her. I’ve already sent people out to find her. I’m sure we’ll track her down.”
Westbrook wasn’t that big. Even if Wendy wanted to hide, there was nowhere she could go.
“Hurry. The police are already watching this case, and there will be plenty of people online stirring trouble. It’s blown up now. Deal with it quickly. The Foster family must not be dragged into this.”
“Yes, sir.”
Henry left the study, and his assistant spoke up beside him. “About thirty minutes ago, the calls started coming in to the company. The secretarial department has been answering non–stop, waiting for us to give them a statement. Mr. Henry, should we just… not pick up?”
“No. Answer them.”
“Why? If we answer, how do we deal with the reporters‘ tough questions?”
“Tell them we know nothing. We’re shocked, and the matter has already been reported to the police.”
“But…”
But this clearly involved Wendy. If it really blew up, what then?
Henry couldn’t afford to think that far ahead. If he could protect the Foster family, that would already be a blessing.
If the string of missing persons cases spanning more than twenty years was solved, public outrage would explode, and all eyes would turn to the Fosters.
The consequences… he didn’t even want to imagine.
Meanwhile, the story was everywhere. News outlets and online platforms had plastered it across the front page. It had become a national talking point, a high–profile case that had everyone’s attention.
Wendy stared at the television, her body trembling. The curtains in the small house had been drawn tight by the bodyguards to make sure no one saw her
She gnawed on her thumbnail, her eyes hard with malice.
“After investigation, the bones have all been confirmed to belong to students from Claire University Medical School DNA tests venly they were the students who went missing over the years,” a report said.
Halbert and Eliza heard the full findings from their investigators. They were in a classroom when the news
reached them.
Jean felt a chill in her bones if this hadn’t come to light, she might have been the next one in that pile of
she had been about to enter the medical school’s lab building for her own research.
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Chapter 522 The Investigation Blows Wide Open
“Ms. Eliza, could it be that Emilia found out about this, and that’s why…?”
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Eliza hadn’t known the full picture before. But seeing those remains, she quickly pieced it together. Ethan’s stellar grades must have given him access to some of the lab’s secrets. That was why he had arranged for Nina to take Emilia’s place during an experiment – to keep his girlfriend out of harm’s way.
But that substitution had cost Nina her life. And when Emilia realized what had happened, she must have confronted Ethan.
The lab’s secret couldn’t be allowed to get out. So they used Emilia’s family to threaten her, forced her to write a suicide note, and made her jump.
They hadn’t counted on Emilia embedding a hidden message in the punctuation to show the note wasn’t truly hers.
That explained why, after Emilia’s death, Ethan had tried to make a public scene before killing himself – but even then, he didn’t dare name the people behind it, knowing his family would be targeted.
Jean suddenly stood, facing Eliza. “Ms. Eliza, are we really going to keep this covered up? If this came to light, what would happen to the people responsible?”
Claire University Medical School had cultivated countless high–ranking connections, many of whom had ended up in the city’s central hospital. Those people had probably taken part in the experiments.
If it were proven, anyone who came out of that medical school was suspect.
Investigating this case would inevitably drag a lot of people and institutions into it.
But after so many lives had been destroyed, should the mastermind really go unpunished?
Eliza had no answer. They already knew Wendy was behind the operation.
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to move against her. It was that they couldn’t
–
not yet.
If they struck now, Wendy might still walk away without facing the punishment she deserved.
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