Chapter 208

The policewoman’s expression didn’t look right. Alarieka felt a jolt in her heart, took the phone, and put it between her and Roschelle.

The video playing on the phone was exactly the footage from the surveillance camera. The camera was aimed right at where Alarieka and Roschelle had the incident, and as soon as it started, it was the moment Alarieka walked past Roschelle.

Alarieka didn’t click play right away, but turned to look at Roschelle’s face. Roschelle was a bit quiet now. If it had been before, she would’ve already said some snarky things with hidden jabs. Her being this quiet now was really weird. Lips pressed together, eyes staring hard at the phone screen, and the upper body unconsciously leaning forward–all were signs of being nervous.

Alarieka’s finger slowly paused on the play button of the phone screen, looking at Roschelle’s eyes widen a little. She said softly, “You look pretty nervous.”

Roschelle’s eyes fluttered, then she gently curled her lips. It was really gentle, like a smile touched by a spring breeze. “No, you saw it wrong.”

Alarieka’s voice was calm: “I hope it was like you said.”

Patrick stood behind Roschelle, frowned in displeasure when he heard that, and said in a low voice, “What are you rambling about? Hurry up and look, don’t waste time.”

Alarieka didn’t mind what Patrick said, because she saw Roschelle’s smile, which seemed kind of forced, totally different from Patrick’s righteous look. She didn’t say anything else, just clicked the play button on the video.

In the video, Alarieka went around those men and tried to walk past Roschelle without looking at her. In the video, it was clear that Roschelle suddenly grabbed Alarieka’s wrist.

Alarieka raised her eyebrows a little.

In the video, Roschelle pulled Alarieka to the edge of the pool, smiled and said something, while Alarieka looked like she didn’t want to talk to her and kept trying to pull her hand out of Roschelle’s. It was Roschelle who kept holding her wrist and didn’t let go. As they talked, the two of them had a little argument. Alarieka kept her head down and kept twisting her wrist, trying over and over to pull her hand out of Roschelle’s hand. The camera didn’t catch Alarieka’s expression, but it clearly caught Roschelle’s. Roschelle still had that gentle smile and spoke softly, looking calm, but from how Alarieka couldn’t get her hand free, she was kind of being unreasonable. Anyway, something was off.

Out of the corner of her eye, Alarieka saw Roschelle’s smile fade away, and the hospital room went completely silent. She should have smiled, but she couldn’t.

In the next second of the video, Roschelle’s foot seemed to suddenly slip, she lost her balance, and that’s why she fell into the water. Because her hand was holding Alarieka’s wrist, Alarieka got pulled into the water too. It looked like there wasn’t really anyone who tried to drag anyone else down on purpose. Only Roschelle accidentally slipped and fell into the water, and she accidentally pulled Alarieka in with her.

Alarieka’s eyes darkened. Even the policewoman said so.

The policewoman took back the phone after playing the surveillance video and said seriously, “You all saw it. This surveillance video, and other angles of surveillance videos, my colleagues at the police station and I all watched them.”

Alarieka looked into the policewoman’s eyes and kind of knew what she was going to say next.

The policewoman said, “We all agreed that there was no intentional harm between you.” She made her final judgment: “It was just an accident.”

Alarieka had nothing to say. She really didn’t expect that, even though she did feel Roschelle pulling her into the water on purpose, and even though there was full surveillance footage, it still didn’t prove that Roschelle pulled her in on purpose.

I have to say, Roschelle really covered her tracks well. Every move she made was carefully planned, so even if she really dragged her into this, even if there was surveillance footage, everything she did seemed reasonable.

Roschelle, who was sitting next to her, suddenly raised her hand, patted her on the shoulder, and said with a light laugh, “Thank you, officers.”

“I knew it was a misunderstanding, I trusted Alarieka as a person, she wouldn’t do something like that.”

At this point, Alarieka didn’t respond.

Roschelle’s last words were meaningful, gentle, and warm: “Thank you to the two police officers for clearing Alarieka’s name.”

Alarieka suddenly looked up and stared at Roschelle. Clear her name?

Roschelle’s smile was gentle, and her eyes looked like they were full of starlight, bright and lively, nothing like how nervous she was just now. Pretty and gentle, so beautiful beyond words.

Alarieka couldn’t help but chuckle. Wasn’t that clearing her name?