A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 859 Fact of the Story

Raphael Gill wasn't in a hurry to speak. Instead, he looked very calm, confident, and undisturbed.

Rae Baxter looked at him and sighed with relief.

Raphael was this confident and calm because he wasn't a brat. He couldn't have done something like that!

Marcel Hopkins wasn't also in a hurry to speak; he was waiting for Raphael to answer.

After about fifteen seconds, Raphael didn't answer but instead asked, "Captain Hopkins, I would like to ask, how can you be sure that I was the last person to see Joanna Salinas?"

Marcel was slightly stunned and raised his eyebrows, "There was no one in Joanna's villa. The nanny left last night and arrived at 7:50 this morning. Also, the surveillance video did not capture any vehicles entering or leaving the villa!"

Rae was instantly shocked by Marcel's words, surveillance videos always had a blindside, but Marcel would have noticed this kind of problem. She wanted to say something, but she eventually stopped.

"Rae, if you have something to say, just say it." Marcel did not look at her, yet he knew she wanted to say something.

Rae said, "Captain Hopkins, does the surveillance have any blind spot? Has it been broken in the past few days?"

It was not that Marcel didn't suspect this possibility, but he still asked because this wasn't what he wanted. He wanted to cause enmity between Rae and Raphael. Yet, Rae and Raphael seemed to be getting along better and better, and that made him a bit surprised and at the same time impressed with Rae.

Raphael's expression had been indifferent all through. He looked at Marcel as if he knew his motives, then smiled as if he was thrilled.

Rae, slightly stunned, looked at Raphael with warning eyes; he was still in the mood to laugh at this time!

"I have checked it. There is no problem with the surveillance within the past seven days!" Marcel said.

"What about the other days apart from the seven days?" Rae asked rhetorically.

Marcel gave Rae a stern look.

Rae met it and instead looked over.

This time, Marcel did not answer Rae but looked at Raphael. Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

Raphael then opened his mouth, "I do not know if there was anyone in the villa. When I left, Joanna was about to go to the kitchen to pour some water, and then I heard a sound coming from upstairs; it was like the sound of a hard object falling to the ground. If there is no one in the villa, there wouldn't be any sound from the second floor. But I can't be sure what object fell!"

Marcel looked at the corner of Raphael's eyes with a sort of confidence that said he had nothing to do with the situation. However, whether his testimony was true or not, he was a first-class expert in momentum and presence, and his psychological quality was equally excellent.

Rae also looked at Raphael; his eyes were as clear as glass. Finally, she paused and said, " Raphael, think carefully again, what was the sound of the thing that fell."

Raphael shook his head, "I couldn't hear what it was, but the sound was pretty loud."

"You were in the villa for fifteen minutes; what did you say to Joanna in those fifteen minutes? Tell us what happened!"

Raphael didn't try to conceal anything and said, "I just took Joanna back to NY Villa. She threw up when we were at the hotel, so I helped her clean her clothes. She was drunk and kept clamoring to sleep with me, but I was already no longer interested in her, so I refused! She cried when I was leaving, but I also ignored that! Later on, she called and told me that if I didn't take her back to NY Villa, she would publish my previous videos with her. But when I took her back, she then told me there was no video!" Raphael said this with a self-deprecating smile at the corner of his mouth so that people could quickly feel his helplessness. "In those fifteen minutes, I was trying to confirm if she had taken a video of me with her four years ago or not!"

Rae holding the pen sighed. ‘So what’s the need for a casual relationship between a man and woman? After spending a night with each other, fall in love with each other, and probably continue like that for a few more days. Just a few months at most and a few nights at least, but still uses it scheme against their partner.’

Over the past few years, Raphael had always been with women. However, all his female companions only lasted for a few months. Rae felt that any woman with Raphael not for the sake of love would be pleased because he was a gentleman and knew how to take care of women, but when Raphael was in love, he was by no means a good man!

"Tell us about your conversation!" Marcel said.

Raphael briefly recalled their conversation.

At that time, Joanna was still drunk with alcohol, while in Raphael's car, Joanna's hand was still not well-behaved. From time to time, her hand stretched out to grab Raphael's crotch while Raphael was driving. As a result, Raphael almost drifted out of the car when he was taking a turn.

Because it was Raphael's real estate that developed NY Villa, hence, when Joanna came to buy the house, Raphael gave her a 20% discount because of their past friendship.

On the road, Raphael gritted his teeth and slapped away Joanna's hand several times, but she unconsciously leaned over and said, "What are you afraid of? It's not like I haven't seen it before!"

Raphael couldn't stand Joanna's trickery, she looked like a lady, but she was a female hooligan, and she was very wild in bed.

It was just that he was not interested in this kind of woman now. He had had enough of it and wanted to settle down.

"Joanna, I'm warning you, if you flirt with me again, believe it or not, I'll throw you out of the car!" Raphael was already furious. He was already angry about being humiliated while he was at Rae's place, and now Joanna was calling to threaten him about the video. How could he not be mad!

"I like it!" Joanna gasped lightly, her tone was ambiguous and low, "I like the fact that you are overbearing! Do you know? I was surprised when I saw on TV that you were the president of Raph's Real Estate. Do you know what my dream is? I even dreamt of getting a domineering president to fall in love with me!"

Raphael sneered and spoke venomously, "You are now old and useless. If it were four years ago, I would have to make do with you, but now you are so old that just looking at you can make me vomit for three days. So it is better not to think you are beautiful when you are not!"

"Oh, I know you're angry that I took a video of us, haha, let me tell you, I have a lot of these types of videos, and you're just one of them!" She even raised one finger while she said this.

Raphael felt a pang in his heart, thinking that he had become a member of Joanna's roster. Of course, if his father and mother knew about this, they would be outraged!

"You'd better take it out and destroy it all. Otherwise, you will be going against the Raph's, and that's not something you can hold up to!"

"What will you do to me?"

Raphael smiled coldly but did not answer.

"Will you make me disappear from this world?"

"Raphael, the reason I came to look for you is to sleep with you today. There is no video; I lied to you. Let's go upstairs together. I have a surprise for you." Joanna grabbed Raphael's arm as soon as he entered, her hand lingering between his pants waist belt.

Raphael shook her off, "I came for the video. What exactly did you video?"

Joanna put a finger on his mouth and made a hush gesture, smiling, "guess."

Raphael was already becoming very impatient, "messing up with me is not something you can afford."

"Oh! I'm so scared you can make me disappear from this world! You can kill me! Hahaha, I'm so scared!"

Raphael felt like he was talking to a crazy person. And Raphael seeing Joanna like this, knew he wouldn't get the video from her for now; he would come back when she was sober. As he went towards the door, Joanna pulled him and hugged him and wouldn't let go.

At this time, a thump suddenly came again from upstairs, and I didn't know what was falling again.

At this time, Raphael noticed that Joanna looked upstairs, laughed, and shouted, "Olive, don't move, be careful, or I'll skin you!"

Raphael frowned slightly.

Joanna surprisingly explained to him, "I have a cat named Olive. It probably hit something!"

Raphael did not think much about that and went straight to leave again; Joanna pulled him and looked at him with a pitiful expression, "Raphael, will you stay?"

"Give me that video!" Raphael said.

"Get out!" Joanna immediately changed her expression to an icy look. "If you want to go, go. There is no video!"

Raphael turned around and walked out. Joanna suddenly got hysterical, "Raphael, you'll regret it!"

Raphael sneered and left anyways!

In the interrogation room, when Raphael finished narrating what happened, Rae gave a sigh of relief. But she also realized that Marcel was frowning; obviously, he didn't believe Raphael's narration.

Rae didn't say anything, and the recording ended there.

Marcel seemed to be thinking about something but finally didn't speak.

Raphael finished his narration and didn't say anything else again.

However, the two of them looked into each other's eyes, and Marcel suddenly smiled. "It's perfect; if this narration is true, then we can easily clear Mr. Raphael's name."

Raphael's face was relaxed, "Still agree with that saying, even if innocence does not clarify himself, his innocence will be naturally proven!"

Rae felt that Raphael was abnormally relaxed. He was so fearless and calm in a way that made people feel strange.

An average person encountering this will be very nervous.

If Rae didn't know Raphael at all, Rae might have suspected Raphael.

"You saw another person in the villa!!!" Marcel suddenly opened his mouth, his tone sounding certain.

Rae's heart thumped. She didn't know how Marcel concluded that another person was in the villa, but his statement was not just a casual remark. Marcel was interrogating, but if there was a third person, won't the suspicion against Raphael's be quickly cleared?

There seemed to be a faint flash of surprise under Raphael's eyes after hearing Marcel's words. But his calmness returned almost immediately, "Why is Captain Hopkins saying this?"

Marcel smiled and said, "Joanna does have a cat; the cat is indeed called Olive. It's a female cat, but the cat died a month ago! This was her nanny's confession this morning."

Rae widened her eyes. She didn't expect Marcel to be so prepared that he was asking for such details in a short period!

Raphael shrugged after hearing this, "Well, I don't know about this. Why would Joanna lie about a cat?"

Marcel looked at Raphael, "who is Mr. Raphael covering up? And to cover up for that person, you went out of your way to be suspected by the police!"

Raphael's eyes widened——this couldn't be true, right?

Raphael shook his head slightly at Rae, indicating that he didn't want her to worry, and he said to Marcel, "Captain Hopkins may not be wrong in deducing that, but I didn't see the third person in the villa, so I have no idea who that person is!"

Could it be that Raphael was concealing something?

Rae's heart wasn't as tense and perturbed as before, but she was curious, was Raphael hiding something or not?

"No! You know who that person is, and that person is even very close to you!" Marcel said confidently.

Raphael still shook his head. "Captain Hopkins is extraordinary, you don't believe what I say, and you are fabricating excuses for that. How can I accept that?"

Raphael looked at Marcel. He looked unconcerned as if everything was under control.