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Chapter 741
On the last day of the deadline given by Benedict, Colton and Nicole went to the police station to see William.
William had spent a torturous week in prison. His anxiety only grew worse as he was forced to suffer in silence. He
had made countless pleas, but nobody gave any signs of hearing him out.
William had been slumped on a bench, waiting for the Sword of Damocles to finally fall. So, the moment Nicole
walked in, it was as though life was breathed into his being. He jerked upright and seemed revitalized.
"Nicole, you're here!"
When he saw who his daughter was with, panic briefly flashed in his eyes. To his credit, he quickly recomposed
himself.
He continued in a softer tone, "Nicole, please tell President Gardner to let me go. I'm getting old, and prison is no
place for the elderly."
To William, his daughter was the last remaining raft on a sinking ship. So, he clutched at her desperately with the
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtstrength of a drowning sailor and refused to release her unless she saved him from his misery.
The coldness on Nicole's face did not thaw as she replied blandly, as if she was talking about the weather, "I can't
make that sort of decision."
When he heard her tone, he clenched his fists in response. Nonetheless, he quickly reigned in his temper and
continued to plead.
"Nicole, no matter what, I'm still your father. Do you hate me that much? Do you want to see me die in these
walls?"
His eyes brimmed with tears. He even began to cry shamelessly as he held onto the cell bars with a white-knuckled
grip.
"Your mother's gone. I'm the only parent you have left. You—"
At the mention of her mother, a burning hatred roared in Nicole's heart. Her eyes darkened as she glared at him.
"How dare you talk about her!"
Her outrage momentarily stunned him. His lips moved wordlessly as he fumbled for words. After a while, he
cautiously said, "Nicole, I—"
"Enough, stop your miserable act. When you were drunk driving and killed someone, you fled the scene and tried to
pin everything on my mother. Now, you still have the gall to talk about her to my face? The audacity!"
Her voice dripped with disdain and venom.
He stiffened at her reproach. He had no idea that Nicole and Colton knew all those things.
Back then, Bryan Kohlberg had set everything in motion. How could he be discovered so easily? William panicked
internally.
He knew that he had no choice but to continue his act. He knew that if he failed here, there was truly no way he
would be leaving the jail cell alive. Therefore, he forced out, "I didn't. That's not true, Nicole."
Nicole narrowed her eyes at his pathetic figure. The corners of her lips curled into a cruel sneer.
"I got the surveillance footage from Bryan. Are there any other lies you want to feed me?"
William tensed up at the mere mention of Bryan's name. Bryan was the one who handled everything back then. If
she knew that Bryan was involved, that meant that she wasn't bluffing. Otherwise, she wouldn't have known to
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmmention his name.
William finally realized that it was useless to try to weasel his way out. He sat frozen on the ground for a long time.
It seemed as though he was dissociating, or his senses seemed to have left him.
Nicole couldn't curb her utter loathing for her father as she dismissed him with a tilt of her chin. Colton took that as
his cue as he strode toward William and stared down at the defeated man.
"We have proof that you're the one who killed my grandmother. With the Gardners' connections, we can make it so
that you die behind bars."
His voice was colder than the lonely nights in a prison cell.
William's body tensed when he registered those words. He had become the Gardners' enemy. His life was well and
truly over.
He was still in shock as he blinked dumbly at Colton.
After a while, he cleared his throat and begged, "President Gardner, please spare me. I'm an old man. Back then, I
wanted to turn myself in. I really did! But Nicole had just been born. If I went to jail, she'd have nobody to look after
her!"
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