Chapter 557


    She locked eyes with them, her gaze sharp as a knife, “Go ahead, let’s see who really gets the short


    end of the stick when this alles out in the wash.” With that, she turned on her heel and left.


    Ferris‘ voice drifted after her, “You see that, officers? Maja’s got some nerve, acting like she’s above


    thew.”


    Even though Maja had presented evidence of Ferris’s extramarital affair, it only painted him in an


    immoral light, not a criminal one. The cops couldn’t do much about that even if they wanted to.


    Maja slid into the passenger seat of the car, where Zoey was sitting.


    Even outside the car, Zoey could still hear Ferris’s voice.


    “Ms. Pennyfeather, what’s our next move? Ferris isn’t letting up on making this a big deal online.”


    Maja leaned back in her seat, already drained and now having to deal with that.


    “We’re stuck. Even if we find evidence of Ferris‘ domestic abuse, with May refusing to press charges,


    it’s basically just ‘marital issues‘.”


    Zoey, though an outsider, was left speechless with anger! After a while, she asked, “So if Ferris


    actually killed May, not only would he not be convicted, but he’d also get a payout from us?”


    Maja nodded, and heard her angrily say, “What a world we live in!”


    Maja stared at the car ceiling, “That’s why women need to be careful when choosing their spouse. It’s


    the only time you get to choose your family, and this person might one day be the one signing your


    hospital papers or downying their abuse of you. I tried to warn May, but she’d gotten so used to


    Ferris’s violence that she never considered divorce, always keeping her nose to the grindstone to


    support the family.”


    “Ms. Pennyfeather, that Ferris is no good. With the money he’s getting from you, I bet he’s keeping


    other women. How much did he ask for?”


    “Ten million.”


    Most people bust their humps their whole lives and never see that kind of money. Ferris had already


    milked the Pennyfeather family to pay his mortgage. With another ten million, he’d be living high on the


    hog.


    “Zoey,e with me somewhere tonight,” After saying that, Maja called Carol Miller and borrowed a


    few bodyguards. The Miller family’s guards were reliable and professional, ready to jump in when the


    chips were down.


    Maja had the guards bring Ferris‘ two sons. If Ferris had indeed done something to May that led to her


    death, those two who were always at home would know The cops didn’t have the evidence to act, but


    Maja couldn’t sit on her hands any longer. Even considering May never spilled the beans about the


    Pennyfeathers to Ferris during all her years working for the Pennyfeather group, Maja owed her some


    justice.


    Half an hourter, the two brothers who had nned to hit the inte cafe were taken by Miller’s were


    scared out of their wits.


    Maja gestured for the guards to split the brothers up for questioning.


    bodyguards. They’d never been through anything like that and


    The older brother managed to keep his cool better than the younger one. He was scared, but he didn’t


    show younger brother.


    The younger brother was shaking like a leaf, so scared he’d wet himself. When Maja saw this, she


    couldn’t


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    his brother. So, Maja decided to start with the


    Her disgust.


    The young bullets eyes were covered with a thick ck cloth. He saw nothing before being shoved


    hard and nearly up The


    bodyguard was a pro at


    this sort of thing.


    “How did your mother die? If you don’t spill it, I’m going to kill you right here.”


    The question only ramped up his fear. He curled up into a ball, shaking uncontrobly,


    The bodyguard pulled out a dagger and slowly began to pierce the boy’s foot.


    “Ah! It hurts! Please, I don’t know anything!”


    The next second, another dagger found his leg, slowly prating.


    After half an hour of torture, the boy was barely hanging on.


    “I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”


    The room suddenly fell silent. The boy was so scared he was about to pass out.


    “One day, my dad brought a woman home. Everyone in the family knew about her except my mom.


    She was loaded, giving me and my brother allowance every month. Rumor had it she owned two


    apartments downtown. My grandparents drooled over her wealth and kept pushing my dad to divorce.


    But my dad thought that despite her money, she was a spendthrift, unlike my frugal mom, so the


    divorce kept getting postponed. He brought the woman home to talk to my mom about divorce. But my


    mom caught them in bed together and threatened to make a scene at my dad’s office.


    My dad panicked. He’d worked hard for over 20 years to get his current sry. We all tried to talk my


    mom down, even my grandparents berated her, but she was all set. My dad pped her, and they


    started arguing. My dad strangled her, and she was struggling. My brother and I helped our dad with


    the process.”


    The whole family bullied a woman who had dedicated decades to them. Her husband and sons


    strangled her together. Her inws watched, the mistress too. No one helped her.


    No one knew how desperate May was at that moment.


    Just hearing all that made Maja shiver. Those people were animals!


    The little brother was still crying and curled up, “That’s th


    truth,