Chapter 4

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I listened to all of it, then turned to look at Winona, who was still playing the wronged victim.

Whatever had been left in my eyes was gone. Only the cold remained.

"Officers, what if I can prove my husband didn't do any of this?"

I looked at the two of them and asked it plainly.

In my last life, the whole thing blew up because my husband had gone over to Winona's to help catch a mouse.

But this time, neither of us had left the apartment at all.

And beyond that, I'd had proof of it from start to finish.

Last night, I livestreamed all the way to midnight.

The entire time, my husband and I were both on camera.

The two officers answered at once. "If you have proof, then of course it settles the matter."

I was about to say I had it, but Winona suddenly burst into tears. "Officers, those two really did it last night!"

"Last night Jerome assaulted me, and then Kay came over to my place!"

"The two of them hung around my apartment for ages, and they cleaned up every bit of evidence in it!"

"They even wiped away the fingerprints."

"I'm just a girl on my own. I was scared, so I didn't fight back!"

She sobbed through it all. "Now she says she has proof. Who knows if it's faked!"

At that, the two officers frowned slightly.

They looked at my husband and me. "Why don't the two of you come down to the station with us first?"

"Once we're at the station, we'll sort your situation out there."

Hearing that, a flicker of panic crossed my husband's face.

I knew he had an important meeting that morning.

Last time, missing that meeting cost the company a lot of money.

And after Winona made her scene, the company fired him outright.

I also understood that if this kept going, neither of us would be walking away.

I spoke up quickly. "Winona, you say my husband assaulted you."

"Then tell me. What time did my husband come over last night?"

Without a second's thought, Winona said, "A little after nine!"

"And what time did we leave your place?"

I fired the question fast. I knew Winona had already given the officers a full account, and she'd probably rehearsed the whole thing in her head.

So the moment I asked, she answered right away. "You left a little after eleven!"

"And that's when you wiped away all my evidence!"

I looked at Winona, and this time I smiled.

At the same time I turned to the officers. "Officers, I have proof that neither my husband nor I had any window to do this!"

"For that time last night, we have a witness!"

The second I said it, the crowd of neighbors around us broke into whispers.

Winona jumped in fast. "That's impossible!"

"Don't think you can slip through just by vouching for each other!"

"It was clearly the two of you last night!"

She was worked up as she said it. I only gave her a cold, level look before I spoke. "But Winona, the person who can vouch for me last night isn't just the two of us."

I pulled out my phone and stared straight at her. "Last night, I was livestreaming."

"There were tens of thousands of people watching my stream!"

"And my stream ran past midnight!"

"I even have the screen recording of the whole thing. You think that's enough?"

My voice wasn't loud, but it was ice cold, and the moment she heard it, Winona froze.

Then she suddenly screamed, beside herself. "Kay, you're lying!"