Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 148

No One’s P.O.V.

“I swear that my phone is hacked and the hacker erased everything from my phone that can prove that I am innocent. I… I agree that I took tha…. That necklace.. f… from one of th… the kidnappers… but… I… I did nothing mo… more than that. I.. I just passed the information a… about Violet to the person who contacted me a month ago,” Millie cried while telling the investigators about her role in Violet’s kidnapping. She was sitting in front of two investigators with her lawyer and her father. Mr. Westfield was also present there and was sitting with the police investigators. “You want to say that someone approached you a month ago and asked you to keep him updated about Violet’s whereabouts, and her routine?” one of the investigators asked her in a calm tone, and she nodded furiously.

“Yes… yes… this is exactly what happened? You… you can investigate my phone,” she replied to him immediately and looked at her dad with a fearful gaze. Her father straightened up his back and looked at the investigators coldly. “She is right, officers. She showed me the details of all those messages that she received from an unknown number after she came back from school that day. She was scared that the main culprit will frame her for this kidnapping,” Mr Matthews told the officer in a calm tone. “But you don’t have those messages now,” one of the investigators said to him in a calm tone.

“But I have a screenshot of those messages,” Mr. Matthews replied to him and took his phone out of his suit jacket pocket. Both investigators, Mr. Westfield, and Millie’s lawyer, immediately leaned over the table to see the screen of his phone. Mr. Matthew opened the gallery of his phone and showed them the screenshots that he took the same day when Millie told him about Violet’s kidnapping and also about her involvement in that case. “You must provide us with these screenshots as evidence, Mr. Matthews,” one of the investigators asked, and Mr. Matthew nodded in agreement.

“We can check this number, but we all know that there are very slim chances that we will be able to get the right owner of this phone number,” Mr. Westfield said in a calm and firm tone. “I know that… but it proved that Millie is not the one who planned this kidnapping,” Mr. Matthew insisted in a bit loud voice, but Mr. Westfield shook his head negatively. “No, Mr. Matthew… I am sorry to say, but this doesn’t prove that Millie is not the culprit here. I don’t want to show all my cards to you right now but I can easily prove that Millie bought this number with a fake ID and that she is the one who sent all these messages to herself. Later she deleted all these messages, saying that someone had hacked her phone,” Mr. Westfield told Mr. Matthews in a calm tone what he could do to prove Millie guilty.

Millie gasped in shock and her eyes almost came out of the socket. “He is right. It will take someone capable like Mr. Westfield five minutes in the courtroom to prove that everything was planned by Ms. Matthews,” Millie’s lawyer also agreed with Mr. Westfield with a sigh. Mr. Westfield smirked and leaned back on his chair while looking at Millie, who was now completely pale in fear. He had evidence that could prove that Millie was guilty, but with his experience with criminals, he knew that Millie was partially responsible for this incident, and she had no idea about how worst this could be for Violet. Someone took advantage of her grudge against Violet. “Why did you put Violet’s necklace on Ms. Bishop’s bag? Did the person ask you to do this?” Mr. Westfield asked her in a calm tone after thinking about something.

Millie immediately shook her head negatively. “No… tha… that was Grace’s idea. He… he asked me to keep that necklace with me, but I got scared when I saw b***d on that necklace. I…. I assumed th.. that th..they would only k.. kidnap Vi.. Violet. Grace… she said.. th… that I would be in trouble if …. If someone would see that necklace on me. So… so… we… used Sia a… as a scapegoat. Everyone knows about her hatred towards Violet, and we tried to take advantage of … of that hatred to … to save me,” Millie explained why she had put the necklace in Sia’s bag. “Who gave you the car keys?” one of the investigators asked her this time. She looked at him with a painful gaze.

“Grace has a master key. She gave that key to me to get Sia’s bag from her car. I didn’t see Sia taking her bag with her when she took them to the hospital with the other boys. I was sure that her bag was still in her car. So, I opened the car and put the necklace inside the bag. I locked the car again so that no one would doubt me,” she answered him truthfully in a fearful tone. “You went to her car after school was over and took her bag out, right?” Mr. Westfield asked her and she shook her head first and then lowered her head. Mr. Westfield sighed helplessly and ran his fingers through his hair.

“You messed up everything on your own, Ms. Matthews. Everything that we got only pointed towards you as the main culprit here,” he said in a defeated tone and looked at Mr. Matthews who looked pissed. “Please help my daughter, Mr. Westfield. I know your reputation very well, and that’s why I asked you to come here today,” Mr. Matthews requested him in a pissed tone. “Violet is my daughter, Mr. Matthews, and she is the one who got kidnapped and hurt badly. If… if we were a few minutes late, she would have died there. You can’t deny that Millie willingly helped that person, and did all his dirty work for him. She will get the punishment too. All we can do right now is find the main culprit so that we can prove that Millie is not the one who hired those kidnappers or planned Violet’s murder. She was just a pawn,” Mr. Westfield answered him truthfully, not leaving any room for argument there.

Mr. Matthews shook his head negatively and looked at Millie angrily. He was a strict father, and Millie knew that he wouldn’t hesitate to disown her if word spread in the world about her being involved in a crime. She looked at her father with a fearful gaze. “I… I am sorry, dad… I am really sorry. I … I didn’t think about the consequences,” she apologized to her father while stuttering hard in fear. Mr. Matthews shot daggers at her through his eyes. “I am sorry to say this, Mr. Matthews, but she did commit a crime by helping the main culprit,” Mr. Westfield apologized to Mr. Matthews in an apologetic but firm tone. “It’s okay, Mr. Westfield,” Mr. Matthews replied to him with a sigh and looked at him with a calm gaze.

“I only have one request to you,” he continued and Mr. Westfield nodded to him to say his request. “I know that the victim is your daughter, and with your ability, I am damn sure that you will find the culprit soon. I just want you to show some leniency to Millie during the trial,” Mr. Matthews requested him in a calm tone. Mr. Westfield nodded to him, and then looked at the investigators. “The other girl is in the next room,” the first investigator informed him. “I have to go to the hospital. Send me the recording of her confession,” he replied to the investigator. Mr. Matthews also stood up.

“Wait… y.. you are not leaving me here, right dad?” Millie asked her father in a tone filled with horror. He didn’t look at her. “No… no, dad… I said sorry… I am really sorry… don’t leave me here,” she screamed, but none of them listen to her. The police already had her arrest warrant and also the evidence to prove her crime. She had to stay in their custody till further investigation. Everyone walked out of the room except those investigators. She was crying and screaming but her father didn’t listen to her.

Meanwhile, in the other room, Grace was also interrogated by two different investigators. Her father and her lawyers were also there. She gave them her testimony in which she stated that it was Millie who approached her with Violet’s necklace. Millie was so scared that she was crying so hard. Grace only helped her get Sia’s bag from her car. When they asked why they put the necklace in Sia’s bag, she told them that they knew that Mr. Bishop would do everything to save Sia, and they would manage to escape from this. She agreed that she helped Millie only to get rid off that necklace. She did nothing except this.

Mr. Westfield and Mr. Matthews stopped near Mr. Westfield’s car. Mr. Matthews sighed and looked at his lawyer and then back to Mr. Westfield. “I will try my best to find that culprit as soon as possible, Mr. Westfield, and I expect the same from you too. I know that Millie can’t escape from her punishment,” he paused and took a deep breath. Mr. Westfield smiled a little and looked at Mr. Matthews calmly. “Let me talk with Violet about this matter first, Mr. Matthews. I don’t know if you have any information about Ms. Matthews being a bully to Violet in the school. What I heard from the other students, it was Ms. Bishop who was the main bully of Violet, and Ms. Matthews only followed her, but it was her choice. She wasn’t forced to do this,” Mr. Westfield said to Mr. Matthews.

Mr. Matthews narrowed his eyes on Mr. Westfield this time. Mr. Westfield chuckled when he realized that Mr. Matthews has no idea about what he told him. “I guess you should ask the school disciplinary committee about this, and also ask for the school footages,” Mr. Westfield suggested, bowing slightly before stepping into the driver’s seat of his car. Mr. Matthews was stunned by what Mr. Westfield asked him to do. He had an idea about Millie being involved in some bad things in school with Sia, but he didn’t know them being as a bully.

Mr. Parker’s P.O.V.

“There must be something through which we can find the main culprit,” I muttered in frustration while looking here and there in the living room. Mr. Westfield rubbed his temple while leaning at the backrest of the couch. “He has covered his trails very smartly. We haven’t found anything yet which can lead us to him. He used a prepaid phone number, bought with a fake ID, to contact Millie. Any lawyer can easily prove that Millie is the one who bought that number, and then sent messages to herself,” Mr. Westfield said with a sigh. “But she is not the one, right?” Rose asked him in a light tone.

He nodded and leaned forward while putting his hands on his knees, and clasping his hands. “I agree that she helped someone in the whole case, as she is not that smart to scheme so smartly. She was so scared when she got the necklace that she forgot about the CCTV cameras in the parking lot, and also about the dashcams of other cars that captured her going to Ms. Bishop’s car, and taking her bag out,” Mr. Westfield answered her in a serious tone while looking into a blank point in front of him. “Now I also started thinking about what Violet asked yesterday,” Samantha muttered, and everyone looked at her questioningly. “What did she ask?” Rose immediately asked her. We all were sitting in the living room of my mansion, including Mr. Westfield, and his wife, Violet’s biological mother. Kyle and Ethan were still with Violet in the hospital. They were literally living there with her, and I couldn’t blame them for this. All twenty boys were taking turns staying with her during school hours. I didn’t want to accept, but I sometimes felt envious of their friendship.

“Violet and Mrs. Knight thought that this could be related to your election campaign too,” Samantha answered Rose while looking at me, making me raise my brows in confusion. “Did they say anything about that?” I asked her in a curious tone this time because her words stuck in my mind. “It was Violet who came up with this idea that it might be someone related to your election campaign. Mrs. Knight also supported her line of thought and said that it could be a possibility if Millie is not the main culprit. Every crime must have a motive, and we still didn’t get the main motive behind this kidnapping,” Samantha continued, and I just stared at her while listening to her with my full attention. I had so many enemies related to me through business and politics. If… if Violet’s guess was right about this, then it could be a very serious issue for me.

“What did Nat say about this?” Rose asked her, and Samantha sighed while leaning back on the couch. “If I am guessing right then I may know what she said,” Mr. Westfield suddenly spoke, and we all looked in his direction. He had a small smile on his lips as if he had found something interesting in this conversation. He looked at me with a calm gaze. “If someone wants to ruin your good reputation, he has to do something that can prove you a bad family person first. You are going to adopt Violet on her birthday. She will be your family. This is the talk of the town and everyone is praising you for taking care of an orphan girl who was abandoned by her own parents. If you fail to save her, then your opponents can easily use this matter against you during the election campaign. If a person fails to keep his family safe, then how can he be trusted as a good leader?” Mr. Westfield spoke with a mysterious smile on his lips, and I narrowed my eyes. My heart was now beating furiously inside my chest.

“But Ethan is their biological son. He should have attacked him instead of Violet. It would have had a bigger impact on his reputation than this,” Nathalie raised the question this time, and Mr. Westfield smirked. “But in that case, anyone would have easily guessed that this was either a political conspiracy or a business rivalry. Think about that. We all only related this with the hatred of those girls towards Violet because this was the first impression on everyone. In reality, they were nothing but pawns in this game,” Mr. Westfield answered her in a calm tone but it was enough for me to stop breathing.

There was silence in the room for a good few seconds as everyone was drowned in their own thoughts. “Excuse Mrs. Parker” suddenly a maid came inside and called Rose in a polite tone. “What is Kelly?” Rose asked her in a calm tone. “Mrs. Knight is here,” she informed Rose, and we all looked at each other in confusion. “Bring her in, Kelly.. thank you,” Rose instructed the maid, and stood up. “What is she doing here?” Nathalie asked in confusion. “We will know soon,” Rose said and then walked towards the entrance of the living room. We all stood up, and looked in that direction.

“Hey, Nat…. how are you?” Rose greeted her while hugging her lightly and exchanging pleasantries. “I am good, Rose… thanks for asking,” Mrs. Knight answered in a light tone while hugging her back. “Come,” Rose asked her and they walked towards us. Mr. Westfield moved to his wife and vacated the single seat for Mrs. Knight. She came and greeted all of us in a light tone. I asked her to take a seat, and she sat down on the single seat. Rose came back to me and sat down beside me on the couch. Samantha was sitting next to her. “I am sorry for coming without informing you, but this was urgent,” Mrs. Knight said in a serious tone.

“It’s okay, Nat. You know that you are also like a family to us. You can come any time,” Rose tried to put her at ease. Mrs. Knight smiled gently and then looked at me first. “I am sure that you met a dead end in Violet’s kidnapping case?” she asked me and I nodded while pursing my lips into a thin line. “I told them about what Violet and you talked about yesterday,” Samantha informed her, and Mr. Knight nodded once this time in acknowledgment. “I did some investigation on my own,” she said further, and looked at Mr. Westfield.

She opened her bag and took out a pen drive from it. “Here is something that my investigator found for me. I think it will be better if you see this,” she said to Mr. Westfield while standing up. Mr. Westfield immediately stood up and came near to her. We all looked at her curiously while watching the exchange between them. “I can’t tell you my source, but I trust them, and this is genuine,” she said to him while giving them the pen drive. “Let me see this first,” he answered her with a polite smile on his lips. She nodded and sat down again. Mr. Westfield went back to his seat and sat down too.

“What did you find, Nat?” Rose asked her curiously. Mrs. Knight sighed and looked at all of us by moving her head from one direction to other. “Violet was right. This is not about the teenage drama, but a serious political and business scandal,” she answered, and I raised my brows. My mind was now thinking about all the possibilities that could lead me to the main culprit. Mrs. Knight looked at me while giving me a knowing look. I knitted my brows when I realized the meaning of her words. I gasped in shock and ran my fingers through my hair when the realization hit me hard. “What is it?” Rose asked me in a nervous tone.

I looked at Mr. Westfield and his expression was enough to tell me that he had the same thought. “We have to be very careful. He is very calculative and cunning. He used the hatred of all those girls against Violet to cover his tracks. He used a fake bank account to transfer the money to the kidnappers, and never contacted them personally. They were also contacted through messages. I got the lead on the gang who did this deed, and their information is also in the pen drive. He planned everything perfectly, but that Matthews girl’s one wrong move put him in a tight spot. If you want to bring him out,” Mrs. Knight trailed off and gave a sly smirk to Mr. Westfield.

“Do whatever you need to do in this case, Henry. You have all my support. He dares try to harm my family. There is no way that I will let him go so easily,” I said to Mr. Westfield in a serious tone. “Will you tell us what is going on?” Rose asked me annoyingly. I didn’t look at her but kept my eyes on Mr. Westfield. “I want you to file a report against Ms. Sia Bishop,” he asked me and I nodded. “Consider it done,” I replied to him while taking my phone from the coffee table. “I think… I can help you with something too,” suddenly Mrs. Knight spoke, and I looked at her while opening my contact list.

“Sia asked me for some money a few weeks ago, and I gave her that money. She told me that she wanted to buy something for herself, but her father has seized her credit card. The amount was not the complete amount used in this kidnapping, but big enough to bring her to the investigation room,” Mrs. Knight further told us, and I was really surprised to hear her. She helped that girl but didn’t try to patch up with her son. “But Sia is innocent, right?” Sam asked us this time in a confused tone. “Yes… she is… but her arrest is important to bring the main culprit out,” Mr. Westfield answered her in a light tone while I put the phone on my ear after dialing my friend’s number.