Chapter 224: Where Did She Go?

“The surveillance might not be real…”

“Maybe someone took advantage of the chaos to frame us…”

The two of them spoke in unison, then stopped simultaneously and looked at each other in shock. They both saw that the other didn’t want the footage exposed.

Carl smiled, giving nothing away. “Let’s just take a look first. If there’s even a small clue, we can follow it down the trail.”

Freya plugged in the USB drive, and footage from the Rainier Arc Street section started playing quickly on the screen. The surveillance was tracking Owen’s license plate. It clearly showed that, in the pouring rain, Owen’s car was being chased and forced all the way to Rainier Arc Street.

Owen pointed and said, “That’s the car! It kept ramming into me and Elsie!”

Freya said, “It’s a car with fake plates. We already found out that the Powell family provided the fake registration info.”

Paul immediately looked like he wanted to argue, but Carl raised a hand and cut him off. “Keep watching.”

Paul frowned and had no choice but to turn back to the screen. They saw Owen’s car suddenly lose control, crash into several other vehicles, and then slam into a sedan at high speed, flipping it over. As the car rolled, a figure was thrown out of it and hit the ground.

“That’s…” Paul said in shock, “Yunice?”

“What was Yunice doing on Rainier Arc Street?”

Lily rushed up to the screen in a panic, squinting at the footage. “That’s not Yunny. How could that possibly be Yunny? The rain must’ve messed up the image.”

She turned around and said, “That must just be a girl with a similar build.”

Carl didn’t respond. Instead, he asked Owen, “You didn’t know you hit someone?”

Under everyone’s eyes, Owen tried to stay calm. “It was chaos. Cars were crashing into each other. It was pouring rain, and I couldn’t see clearly. I was panicking. I honestly didn’t notice I hit anyone.”

He looked at the screen, guilt written all over his face. With a righteous tone, he said, “I’ll write…”

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Carl frowned. “Don’t go. She’s lying there not moving. She’s probably dead. If you show up at her family’s door, they’ll want to kill you.”

Owen said, “If I killed someone, I should pay for it with my life.”

Carl let out a sharp breath. “You idiot. Why can’t you get this through your head?”

Carl said, “The footage is unclear. No one else saw anything. If you don’t admit it, no one will ever know it was you.”

Lily looked at Carl, then at Owen. No matter who was responsible, someone had to bear the consequences. She didn’t want Owen to be that person. “Owen, someone comes looking, let Mr. Carl handle it.”

She then looked at Carl, her voice low and meaningful. “You’re Will’s son. Mr. Carl would never let you end up in prison.”

Carl said nothing.

Owen took his silence as agreement and went along with it. “Even though I want to atone, I still have to support the Saunders family. This… this is a debt I owe. I’ll repay it one day.”

Carl still didn’t say anything. He just paused the footage and said, “If that’s how it is, then let’s stop here. We’ll all pretend nothing happened. I’ll make sure this footage disappears.”

Freya pulled out the USB and dropped it into a cup of water. Watching the only evidence sink to the bottom, Owen finally let out a breath of relief. Luckily, neither Mom nor Mr. Carl recognizes Yunice.

But Paul just had to bring it up again. “So what about Yunice? Where did she go?”

Everyone turned to look at Paul. Owen said, “You know how she is. She probably just ran off somewhere.”

Lily called her in front of Carl, but no one picked up. She smiled and said, “See? That girl’s getting more and more independent. She doesn’t even answer my calls anymore.”

Her expression seemed to say, “I tried. She pushed me away. Blame Yunice.”

Carl was quietly tapping his fingers. Meanwhile, Lily was still worrying about Elsie. She said, “Carl, why don’t you assign a few bodyguards to Elsie too, just to be safe?”

Then she looked at Freya and added sincerely, “I think she’d be great. She’s observant and would probably get along really well with Elsie.”

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But she didn’t dare question Carl’s decisions.

Carl tapped the armrest of his chair and didn’t respond to Lily. He seemed to still be caught up in other thoughts. Then he pointed at Freya. “Call Yunny.”