Billionaire’s Runaway Bride

Aimee’s POV:

I absent-mindedly prepared their dinner in the kitchen.

After Penn left, I regretted not insisting on being involved in the investigation. After all, it was something related to me. Moreover, the reason I was discharged from the hospital was for this matter.

The afternoon passed, but I didn’t receive any news from Penn. I don’t know if he found anything.

While lost in thought, the voices of the little ones suddenly came from the living room. “Uncle!”

I snapped out of my thoughts and went to see what was going on.

As soon as I turned around, I saw someone standing at the kitchen doorway. “Why did you suddenly come over?” I asked.

After getting used to not seeing each other for a period of time, it felt awkward to see him twice in one day.

His face was calm. “I came to pick up Lundy, and also to tell you about the investigation results from this afternoon.”

As soon as I heard this, my attention was instantly diverted. “How was the investigation this afternoon? Any progress?”

“I’m hungry,” he raised an eyebrow and looked at the dinner I was preparing.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

I was puzzled for a few seconds before realizing what he meant. “From yesterday afternoon until now, I’ve only had one sandwich, and I don’t have the energy to say so much,” Penn’s voice interrupted.

Naturally, I felt guilty, and I really wanted to know the investigation results as well.

After dinner, we finally got to the main topic. “Bill took the herbs to be tested, and I made a copy of the video at the time. I plan to take it back and have it looked at by a skilled technician,” Penn said to me.

I thought for a moment and asked, “Can I have a look at it?” He nodded. I put the video on the projector and we watched it together. The video ended when Dave carried me out. I watched it again, but didn’t notice anything unusual. I was a bit unwilling to give up and wanted to take another look. So I played the video again. When we got to the part where Dave came back after answering a call, Cyrus’s voice rang out, “Mommy, rewind the video one minute. I want to see it again.”

Upon hearing Cyrus’ words, I was overjoyed. Did the little guy notice something?

Ignoring Penn’s skeptical eyes, I followed Cyrus’ instructions and rewound the video back one minute.

After watching it, Cyrus confidently said, “This video has been edited. The footage during the one minute that Uncle Dave went out to answer the phone and came back has been replaced with different footage.”

As I saw Penn frowning and staring at Cyrus with suspicion, I cleared my throat and said, “Since Cyrus says so, it must be true.”

“Dove went out to answer the phone, and only Dexter and I were in the lab. It’s crystal clear who was tampering with the experiment. I just don’t understand why Dexter did it,” I said, feeling perplexed and hurt, as if betrayed by a friend.

“First, find the master tape and gather evidence of his crime. Then you can ask him face-to-face,” Penn’s voice sounded beside me.

I nodded in agreement.

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Penn’s POV

After identifying the real culprit, I was worried that Dexter would destroy the evidence. So, I immediately sent Bill and his team to the research institute. As a result, they caught Dexter red-handed. With the irrefutable evidence, Dexter was sentenced to prison quickly.

Aimee had always considered Dexter her friend, so she was very distressed after he was imprisoned. I visited Dexter on her behalf and asked him why he did it. We sat face to face, and neither of us spoke for a while. He stared at me for a moment, then spoke first, “What’s your relationship with Aimee now?”

I frowned and told him the truth, “As you suspected, we’re together now, and I’m planning to propose to her. Once she agrees, we’ll have a wedding!”

Although Aimee hasn’t agreed yet, and there’s a good chance she might refuse, I will try everything to make her accept.

Dexter’s eyes flashed with shock, and with a bitter expression on his face, he said, “I should have known that you would be the one most likely to win her over.”

Hearing this, I was a little confused. He looked defeated and lowered his gaze. “I can feel that Aimee has always cared about you. She just won’t admit it to herself. And I, I chose to deceive myself. In fact, she has always loved you, six years ago and even now…”

Six years ago? At first, I felt happy, but then my eyes narrowed slightly. If what Dexter said was true and Aimee has always liked me, then what’s going on with Aviva and Cyrus?

“Although Aimee has been deceiving herself, those two children have always been on your side,” Dexter continued.

He gave a bitter laugh. “Blood ties are indeed a scary thing. Those two children relied on you so much even before they had met you in person.”

I was shocked. “What are you talking about? What blood ties?”

He looked at me, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. “You don’t know?”