Chapter 480
With Elijah and Daniel around, it didn't take them long to complete the entire procedure. Since they had already
found a place to bury Leanna's mother, her body was taken there right away after all the examinations were done.
When they left, Leanna gave Louis a call and sent him the address of the place where their mother was buried.
Then, she leaned against the car window and set her eyes outside quietly.
"Are you alright, Leanna?" Zoe asked softly.
Leanna responded with a chuckle. "Don't worry about me. I'm fine. In fact, I've gotten used to this."
Zoe let out a sigh and patted Leanna's shoulder, not knowing what to say. A few moments later, the car finally
came to a stop. At the same time, Leanna pulled herself together and took a deep breath. Just when she extended
her arm to reach out for the door, someone opened it from the outside. When she looked up, she saw a familiar
face and asked, "What brings you here?"
Aidan bent over and held Leanna's hand that was hanging in the air. "How can I not be here? This is important."
Leanna pursed her lips and entered the car. Not long after she spoke to Daniel over the phone, she sent Aidan a
message and told him that she was on her way to the lab. However, since he hadn't replied, she thought he was in
the middle of his meeting, only to be surprised when she saw him there.
Upon getting out of the car, she saw Mr. Jackson standing not far away in a preoccupied manner with a walking
stick in his hand. Hmm, I guess Daniel must have told him about that, Leanna thought to herself after seeing no one
else around her.
Knowing what Leanna had in her mind, Aidan merely wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "Let's go."
A few moments later, it started drizzling as Leanna stood in front of a headstone with her head kept down. At the
same time, Aidan was standing next to her with an umbrella over their heads. Soon, Louis arrived, but instead of
walking up to them, he chose to watch from afar in silence, his emotionless expression even more unfathomable
with the chilly mist.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAlthough many guests came to pay their respects, neither of them said a single word throughout the burial. It was
only until it was over that Mr. Jackson sighed and said, "After all those years, Sandra can now finally rest in peace."
"I'm afraid it's not as simple as it seems," Aidan responded with a deep voice.
"What do you mean?" Mr. Jackson looked at the man with a pair of furrowed brows.
"What happened after the explosion back then? Why didn't she ask for help throughout the time she was staying
there? Why did she marry Jethro? Also, why did her husband kill her later? None of us here has answers to any of
the questions I just mentioned."
Mr. Jackson knitted his eyebrows even more while holding his walking stick after hearing Aidan, yet he didn't know
what to say. Aidan then added, "Well, I suppose the only person who has all the answers is Jethro."
"But we've tried everything we could. Even if he agrees to talk, I doubt anything that comes out of his mouth is
true," Daniel said.
"That's because he knows he is still too useful to be killed," Aidan replied.
"Can you make him talk, then?"
"No."
While the crowd was speechless, Leanna pulled Aidan's sleeve as a gesture to tell him to stop talking.
Aidan then held the lady's hand and said, "My point is to remind all of us here that the situation is not as simple as it
seems. Because of that, none of us here should let our guard down."
Meanwhile, Elijah finally said something after a few moments of silence. "Leroy is to blame for all the chaos that
happened. Although he's gone into hiding, I believe it's only a matter of time before we find him. So, Mr. Pearson, I
wonder…"
"Well, it wouldn't be much of a problem if Leroy was the one behind all this."
"Are you saying Leroy had someone else to help him back then?" Mr. Jackson asked.
"I was just venturing a guess. After all, you guys are the people who know him well, yet you have not managed to
catch him even though your men have been dispatched to all the places he might have shown up. You even
instructed them to spy on him, so there's no way Leroy could have escaped unless someone has been helping him."
"We've thought about that as well, but we didn't find anything useful after investigating every single person who
was suspected to be related to him," Mr. Jackson said.
"He knew you guys were hunting for him, so he wouldn't show up at any of the places you could think of."
Upon hearing that, Daniel asked, "So, are you saying the person who's helping Leroy doesn't appear to be related to
him? Instead, whoever has been helping him might have been coerced to do so, and this could be related to the
incident that happened 20 years ago. Is that what you're saying?"
"Possibly." Without any concrete evidence, Aidan's deduction remained unproven. Thus, everyone else went silent
once again.
Soon, Leanna looked at Aidan and said, "There is a place I'd like to go. Come with me, would you?"
"Sure." Aidan looked back at her and gave an affirmative reply.
Leanna then politely bowed to Mr. Jackson and said goodbye to him, whereupon she walked up to Louis and Zoe.
"Let's go, guys."
While Louis nodded and took one last glance at the headstone before leaving, Zoe, who turned around to walk
away, happened to meet Daniel's eyes. In that instant, she somehow knitted her eyebrows unnaturally and quickly
made her way out of there. When the few of them found themselves outside the building, Leanna suddenly stopped
in her tracks. "Zoe, there is a place I need to go to. Would you please take Louis back to where he needs to be?"
"Wait, aren't you going to meet Jethro now?" Louis asked right after Zoe replied affirmatively.
"I know he is probably not going to tell me the truth, but I'm still going to give it a shot, considering how serious
things have become."
"I'll come with you."
"No, I think it's better that you stay behind."
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"But…" Louis knitted his eyebrows.
"Aidan will be with me, so you should go back to school," Leanna replied.
Just when Louis was about to say something, Zoe seized his arm and took him to the car. "Listen to your sister and
stay out of this matter. Jethro is an… Nothing good will ever come out of his mouth, which is all the more reason
you shouldn't be there." Despite the disdain she had for Jethro's unforgivable actions, Zoe restrained herself from
calling him an idiot since he was Louis' father.
"Don't worry about me. I'm just going to ask a few questions there. I'll leave if I can't get anything useful out of it."
Leanna smiled at her brother.
It was then that Louis pursed his lips and reluctantly walked toward the car as Zoe waved her hand at Leanna. "Bye,
Nana. We'll get going now."
"Alright." Leanna nodded.
The few of them left by taking the car with which Leanna came to the lab. As soon as they were gone, Aidan held
Leanna's hand. "Let's go."
When they entered the car, Leanna asked, "You must have discovered something about that incident, right?"
"Hm?"
"You never mentioned anything about what you said before today. You must've found out about something to say
that, right?"
With his hands on the steering wheel, Aidan replied calmly, "I don't know anything, but…"
"But what?" Leanna pressed on with her question.
"But there is one thing that caught my attention." Aidan squinted and added coldly, "The year in which the tragedy
befell the Crossley Family was also the year that Justin was caught in the accident. Guess what? In that same year, I
was taken back to the Pearson Family." Upon hearing the man's words, Leanna's eyes widened in disbelief and
gazed at him in surprise.