Becoming strangers again (Lily and Ryan)

Chapter 118

RYAN

Having my father make peace with Lily is surely going to make things much easier for me. When I want to propose to her, I will have fewer things to convince her about. No woman would want to face what she faced in the hands of me for the second time.

Pulling over at the parking lot, I received a call from the detective who had sent me a text earlier to inform me that they were coming over to my house to ask me a few questions also sent me another text to inform me that they were on their way to my house.

Shoving the phone into my pocket, we walked into the house and I informed the nanny to remain in the boy’s room with them. I do not see the need to have the visitors see them, not when we have one, is surrounding us.

Lily changed into much more comfortable clothes before they arrived. Seated in the living room with Lily next to me, I held onto her hand.

The detective whose name I can’t really remember glanced at her. “does she really have to be here?” he asked.

“Do you have a problem with her being here?2 I answered his question with yet another question.” I am not a suspect, so this is not a criminal proceeding which means she can be here if he chooses to.”

He lifted his hand in surrender, leaning forward. “I was just asking.”

Lily cleared her throat. “can we get on with the questions, please? My kids are going to be needing their father soon and I do not want them to meet you guys.”

The older man in their midst frowned. “You do realize we do not eat babies right?” he asked, astonished at the fact that Llilyddoesnt wants them to meet the kids.”

“Just get on with the question.” I gritted out, trying so hard not to snap.

The man opened his notepad. “I am Detective Joe by the way and he is my associate, Detective Kellen.”

Their names aren’t important to me, I just want to get this over and done with. When I didn’t respond, he continued with his statement. “we have just a few questions for you.”

I nodded, silently telling him to go ahead. “what is your relationship with Mr. Waper?” he asked.

I frowned at his question. “I do not have any relationship with him at the moment, so your question should have been what was your relationship with Mr. Waper.”

He waited for me to continue and I waited for him to correct himself. When it dawned on him that I wasn’t going to say anything else, he scoffed before repeating himself. “what was your relationship with Mr. Waper?”

“He was a business associate. His law firm was our legal team, and then he turned my father–in– law which he isn’t anymore and that is that.”

He nodded and wrote down something on his tablet. “What happened between you two? I noticed you kept using was in your statement. How did you serve both business and personal relationships with him?”

“Don’t you think that is a rather personal question?” Lily interjected.

Detective Kellen moved his gaze lazily her. “I understand that you are here trying to support Mr. Williams, but at the same time, let us do our jobs. It is being suspected that Mr. Waper killed

someone because of Mr. Williams here, and we are trying to find out what really led to the act.”

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7 squeezed Lily’s band, silently telling her to stay calm.

“If you internt us again Ms. Uhich, we will have to tell you to leave”

She shrinks back into my embrace “Lam sorry”

Kellen gave her a sharp nod before returning his attention as I asked earlier, what went wrong?”

I have no reason to protect Waper. “We found out about his personal problem which could be a problem for the company if it comes to light.”

The man continued to inscribe. “And what problem is that?”

He has a gambling addiction that has buried him into debt that he won’t be coming out of any time soon,” I replied,

Letting go of Lily’s hand, I leaned forward, deciding to let the cat out of the bag. He is going to jail anyway. “I do not know where Sophia’s death falls in in all of these, but Waper wanted to scam me off my money to pay off his debt. I found out about it, cut him off business, divorced his daughter, and cut them totally off my life.

“Fraud.” Detective Kellen pointed out, “It seems his list of charges keeps getting longer.”

Curious, I arched a brow. “what is that supposed to mean? What other charges is he facing?”

tag invasion.” He replied. “we dug it out while looking into him and his law firm.” He turned to Lily, “Your ex–wife, does she have any connection with him?”

I nodded. “her ex–fiancee as you all know is a fraud and a murderer but at the same time, we found out that he was working with Japer too.” I locked my lips, “maybe they were planning on scamming her too.”

He chuckled. “Who would have thought that the man who is being envied by some men was actually broke.” He pocketed his notepad. “that will be all for now. Please do well to keep your line open and accessible to us in case we need any more questions

“Sure.” He stood to his feet and I followed suit, accepting his handshake, “I hope you all can handle this case quickly so my family can get back to their normal life routine.”

“We will try our best sir, please do have a lovely evening.” He gave Lily a sharp nod before walking out of the house with his associate closely behind him. Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“That went well,” Lily muttered standing to her feet. “I guess I was just being scared for nothing.”

Tuning towards her, I pulled her in and placed a kiss on her forehead. “Didn’t I tell you that this meeting wasn’t a big deal?”

She chuckled. “Well pardon me for doubting, it is not every day that I or someone I know gets visited by the copps. No offense to them, but they never some with good news. They never come with news that you have won a lottery, it is either you are getting arrested or the news of someone’s death.”

I kissed him again, this time on the cheek. “I promise you love, this is going to be the last time.” Grabbing her hand, I led her up the stairs. “what do you say about a hot shower together?”

Lily slapped my arm playfully. “How can you think of something so naughty after a tense moment?”

I shrugged. “I wasn’t feeling tenses.” I didn’t kill anyone nor sis I commit any crime.

“Well, I was.” She argued, “I literally sweated through my ass the whole time.2

Laughing, I scooped her up and carried her up the stairs. “the more reason you should allow me to help you relax.”

She giggled. “Yeah? So what do you have in mind?”

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“A whole bunch of naughty things”