The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 500 Alive Or Dead?

"Who is that person?” Julian had a feeling that he knew who it was.

"Isabelle Shelby," the other person answered straightforwardly. "According to our investigation, Mr. Shaw, after Isabelle Shelby married Wayne Lewis, she was forced to entertain guests with her body. On one occasion, she entertained the same guest as Miss Lincoln, who committed suicide. We have reason to believe that she has the power to get her hands on those compromising photos, and she has sufficient motivation to carry out the deed."

Then, he let out a bitter laugh and added," Unfortunately, she is dead, so there is no way she can harm people anymore."

Isabelle Shelby...

It had been a long time since he had last heard this name, and he could not help but narrow his eyes when the name was mentioned again.

Truth be told, this was something he had not expected.

"Okay. Ask your men to pay more attention to this matter. Make sure you don’t miss anything. As for the three people on the list, keep a close eye on them and report back to me if you guys find anything."

After he gave this order, Julian looked through the list again and a strange expression appeared on his face.

His gut feeling was telling him that the three people on the list had nothing to do with the incident. The reason he had asked his men to keep investigating was that he did not wish to miss any clues. What made him the most curious was Isabelle Shelby.

What if Isabelle was still alive...

Julian's brows were furrowed deeply in the center of his forehead. According to the information he had received, it was Joseph who had burned Isabelle to death.

Then, two charred bodies had been found in the rental house. Unfortunately, the bodies had been burned beyond recognition. They had been moved to the mortuary, but since nobody had come to claim them, both of them had been cremated. In the end, their ashes had been scattered or buried at an unknown location when nobody had collected them.

Everything sounded normal. However, none of the steps throughout the process could prove that the burned bodies had indeed belonged to Isabelle and Wayne.

What if Isabelle was still alive?

Was that possible?

To find out, Julian called Joseph once again.

"Vo, cousin. You have been contacting me a little too often lately. Why, have you missed me so much?" Joseph teased him.

Julian rolled his eyes at Joseph and got straight to the point. "Joseph, you are the one who got rid of Isabelle, right?" © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

"I've gotten rid of plenty of people, so the name doesn't ring a bell. Mind giving me more details?" Joseph asked.

Julian was speechless. Then, he said, "You burned her and her husband to death in Ningcheng City. Do you recall?"

Joseph finally remembered after Julian mentioned the fire in Ningcheng City." Now that you’ve mentioned it. Yeah, I was the one who got rid of her and her husband. Why are you suddenly asking

about it?"

"Think back carefully. Considering the situation at the time, is there any chance that she could have survived the fire?” Julian asked.

Joseph thought meticulously for a while before speaking again. "After I set the fire, I left the area because I did not want anybody to know that I had been there before. I asked one of my men to stay behind and watch. Besides, I locked the door from the outside, and my man did not see anybody escape from the house.

Therefore, theoretically, there is no chance that she could have survived the fire."

Theoretically...

"Are you certain that there was only one exit in the house?” Julian asked.

"There were two windows aside from the door, but I asked my man to seal the windows beforehand," Joseph said. "I don't like to leave any loose ends untied when I do something. Since I wanted her dead, I made sure that there was no chance of her escaping whatsoever."

"In other words, she has been confirmed dead? Am I overthinking things?" Julian mumbled.

"Well, unless a miracle has happened, there is no chance she could have survived," Joseph added gleefully.

’Miracle?’

Seeing how confident Joseph was, Julian began to doubt himself.

Could he be overthinking things?

Considering Joseph's modus operandi, he was certain that he would not leave any loose ends. Therefore, there was no way a fragile woman like Isabelle could have escaped from the fire. Besides, Joseph had left his man behind to watch...

'Hold on a sec. He left his man behind to watch?'

Julian’s brows twitched as he asked, "Who did you ask to stay behind? Would that man lie to you about the situation?"

Julian was straightforward, and Joseph was a little annoyed. "They are all my sworn brothers, so there is no way they would lie to me. Don't you think you are being a little paranoid? Isabelle was an easy opponent. Even if she was still alive right now, you could easily get rid of her with just a flick of your finger."

Julian could not help but rub his temples.

Joseph was right. He was being a little paranoid by suspecting a dead person.

Julian did not say anything else. After expressing his gratitude to Joseph, he hung up the phone.

He still did not think that those three people were audacious enough to do such an evil deed. Their motives were simply too unconvincing. If Isabelle was not the main culprit, then it could only mean that the real culprit was still lurking in the dark.

As Julian continued his investigation, time whizzed by and three days passed.

Anna was taking a nap in the Wright Mansion when Susan unlocked the door to Anna's room with the key in her hand and walked gingerly into her room. After she took Anna's phone, she tiptoed out of her room.

Jacob was waiting anxiously at a coffee shop nearby.

The moment he saw Susan, his eyes glowed up. “Did you get it, Susie?”

“Yeap." Susan shook the phone in her hand. Then, she said sadly, "Brother, I have even helped you steal Anna's phone. If you still can’t get Anna, I don't know what I can do anymore."

"Don't worry.” Jacob took the phone. Then, he inserted a USB flash drive into the phone and began doing something.

Susan did not understand what he was doing, so she just drank her coffee and waited.

After five minutes, Jacob returned the phone to Susan. "Alright, it's done. You can return the phone to Anna." "It's done?" Susan was stunned. She still had more than half a cup of coffee left.

"Hurry up," Jacob urged her.

"Let me take one more sip of my coffee first ..." Susan said.

"Go now. I'll buy you ten cups of coffee next time," Jacob urged her again.

With extreme reluctance, Susan rose to her feet and mumbled, "Brother, I didn’t know that you were this kind of person. Is a girlfriend more important than your own sister?"

Jacob patted her head gruffly.

"Hey, that hurts...” Susan complained before she soon left for the Wright Mansion.

The process of returning the phone was smooth. Anna slept like a log, and she did not know that her phone had left her side

for a short while.

The next day, it was Anna’s 25th birthday.

Anna did not want a big banquet, so she had just sent invitations to some of the people she was most familiar with to invite them to dinner at her house.

She had given an invitation to Seth, but she had not given one to Jacob.

However, Jacob had become more and more brazen after he had started to court Anna recently. He thus showed up with Seth at the Wright Mansion.

Everyone in the Wright Mansion knew about the history between Jacob and Anna.

Anna had ordered the doorman not to let Jacob in. Therefore, the doorman stopped Jacob and asked, "Could you please show me your invitation, Mr. Shelby?”