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Chapter 309
The little boy’s belief in his father seemed to have collapsed, and he took a step back with a hurt expression. “Why
did you do bad things, Dad? Didn’t you always teach me to be a good person? How could you do this? You’re not my
dad anymore! I don’t want a dad like you…”
“Don’t talk to Dad like that, Kenny!” After the little boy came in, a plainly – dressed woman walked in too. Once she
told her son off, she looked at her husband with a heartbroken expression and said, “Aren’t you going to tell the
truth, Chris? Do you want to let our son forever live with the shadow of having a criminal as a father?”
Chris heaved a sigh of relief when he saw his wife and son appearing safe and sound. Even so, he felt ashamed to
face them too, and he lowered his head to say, “I’m glad that you and Kenny are all right. That’s… That’s all that
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“Yes, Chris. Everything’s okay now. We were saved!” The woman leaned on her husband’s shoulder with reddened
eyes. “Why did you have to be so stupid, Chris? You could’ve told me that you were laid off by your company. You
worked odd jobs for such a long time, and you ended up being manipulated to do such heinous things! Tell the
police the truth, Chris! We might be able to get a lighter sentence if you do that!”
“Honey, I… I’m sorry. I don’t need to hesitate anymore now that you and Kenny are fine.” Chris burst into tears
when his wife did not blame him. He then wiped his tears with his hands and raised his head to say to the police
officers, “I’ll tell you. the truth, officers! The reason why I pleaded guilty is that my
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wife and son were kidnapped, and the person who kidnapped them used them to threaten me into saying that!”
The police officers were taken aback! “What?! Who kidnapped them?”
Everyone was taken aback, and the sudden turns of events felt like a bombshell to them.
One of the police officers frowned warily, “Are you sure you want to retract your confession? You’ll have to suffer
even more serious consequences if you tell another lie!”
Chris nodded firmly. “I’m sure. I want to tell the truth! Someone threatened me and manipulated me to do
inappropriate things to Miss Anya, but it wasn’t Corinne who did that. It was someone else!”
Lucas lowered his eyebrows and waited for the gangster to
continue.
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Sunny’s eyes opened wide, and he was eager to know the truth.
Anya continued to huddle in her brother’s arms and was still somewhat afraid to look at the gangster who had
targeted her. However, she was surprised by the sudden turn of events and glanced at him from time to time.
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Rosie appeared somewhat annoyed as she had been eagerly anticipating Corinne’s miserable downfall. Alas,
Corinne could still find a way to turn the situation around, and Rosie rued the cunning, scheming woman that
Corinne was.
Gabriel walked in calmly and said, “Mister Lucas, these two people are two new witnesses I mentioned. You saw for
yourself that they’re Chris’s wife and son! They’ve both been kidnapped and detained in an uncompleted building in
the
suburbs for the past few days, and someone used them to
threaten Chris into framing my client!”
Lucas glanced at Gabriel, then narrowed his eyes at Chris and asked coldly, “Who did it?”
Gabriel said again, “Your wife and son have been saved, so it’s time you tell the truth and reveal once and for all
who the true instigator was!”
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