244: Chapter 244

Chapter 244

Officer Mckinney glanced at Bernard and grinned, "You should call her later. You two are quite close, right?"0

"Ah—haha—" Bernard felt shy instantly. He would be lying if he said he had no interest in Kate.

After all, Kate was absolutely stunning. Aside from her beauty, she was also brilliant and showed her capability to be able to earn a lot of money in Los Angeles. She was a complete package for a woman.

Bernard had his eyes on her since they were in high school, but he was a nerd that no girl liked, and Kate was already dating the most popular boy in the school, so he had no chance.

He thought he had no chance for the rest of his life, but things were much different now. 

Kate gave him a hint that her marriage was on the brink of divorce, and she and Matt had been separating.

On top of that, Matt's absolutely shameless and cruel behavior to blackmail her for the sin that her father did already burned all the remaining love she had left for him.

'I think I have a chance,' Bernard thought as he imagined Kate again. She must've looked even prettier now. 

Unfortunately, his imagination was short-lived when Mckinney elbowed him, "Hey, now it's not the time. You need to bring her to the station," she said while pointing at Mary, who was too shocked to function right now. 

"Oh, okay. Don't forget to call for help to secure the area. Mary will go with me."

**

Mary didn't do much when she was shoved into the police car. 

Officer Bernard tried to talk to her a few times, but she didn't respond. She simply lowered her head like a meek old woman, and stayed silent until they reached the police station. 

Bernard pushed her into the interrogation room, and much to his surprise, she didn't fight back at all. She was interviewed by himself, and she was finally honest with everything. 

"I only have two thousand dollars for this month, but I have a boyfriend that wants at least five thousand every month. I could do that before, because my son always sent me money. But because he stopped working as a director, I lost my only source of big income," Mary admitted. 

Bernard already knew from Kate that Matt did not work at all. He refused to work and hadn't been earning significant money since the day they married. 

So Bernard could easily connect the dots. 

Matt must've threatened Kate, so Kate was forced to give him money every single month. But now that they were separating, Kate must've broken free from the restraint and refused to give more money to her deadbeat husband. 

But Bernard didn't want to refute Mary now. She was in limbo. She must've been heartbroken seeing her boyfriend leave her as if she had no worth. 

"So you break into Hilda's house to check on her furniture to sell?" Bernard asked.

Mary nodded, "I was just trying to steal anything valuable that I can sell. But I didn't expect her to have a lot of expensive furniture. I never checked her furniture before because I was busy watching over her poor health."

"So you decide to sell all of that expensive furniture," Bernard wrote in his note. "Did you check her room as well? Kate told me you sent a picture of a newspaper clipping about her father, and she said her mother had it framed in her room."

"I need money so Harry can be happy and stay with me," Mary said. "I was so desperate for extra money that I turned a blind eye to everything."

Bernard sighed. 

He pitied the victims of the love trap.

Usually, those young and attractive men and women would seduce the lonely elderly with sweet words and false hope, and thus, make those elders fall in love.

In the end, they were just leeches who would guilt the elderly into draining their retirement savings, and once those elderly had nothing left, they just left to find other old people to trap. 

There had been so many cases similar to Mary, but Bernard couldn't stop them.

Love was a complicated matter, after all.

"You know that he is just taking advantage of you, right?" Bernard reminded me. "Look at him running away when I was about to arrest them. He left you without a second thought."

"I know…" Mary murmured. "I know he doesn't love me. I was just lonely, and I thought I could do anything as long as I could spend my time with him."

Bernard had no more things to say about this.

He knew no matter how hard he tried to shake some sense into her, she would still love that man.

"I can turn them into your accomplice as long as you give me a statement that they are in cahoot with you. I also need your help regarding their personal information, such as their full name and other means of identification."

Bernard thought that Mary would refuse.

But she actually mentioned his full name, "Harry Arnold Mann. That is the name of my young lover. I want him to be charged as my accomplice. I don't know his friend, though. I don't want to charge him because he's just helping Harry. He knows nothing about my break-in and stealing."

Bernard was caught off guard, but he quickly noted down the name. It should be easy to identify that young man. 

"Thank you for your cooperation, Mary," Bernard said. "Unfortunately, I still have to process your crime. You have been charged with trespassing and thievery."

"It's all up to Kate since she is the homeowner, and she told me to arrest you in case I caught you red-handed," Bernard said. He took out his phone and showed the phone screen with 'Katherine Woods' as the contact name. "I will call her now. If you beg her enough, she might drop the charge, and you will be free to go."

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