The Devil's Secretary

Chapter 226: That night

Benjamin instantly straightened his body, not acting funny anymore once it came to work. He flipped the file and glanced at the records as he spoke, "Boss, since you wanted us to look into the matter of the Si Family closely, we have been keeping an eye on it. From the police investigation, it does seem like an accident."

"They are imbeciles," Ryle rolled his eyes.

Benjamin felt bitter in his heart. The head of the police department of Beijing was imbecile. Sure.. You are the Boss...

"What did you find?" Ryle eyed the man.

"Although there are some loopholes, they are not significant enough to think of this as not an accident, but murder."

Ryle did not say anything and Benjamin took it as a cue to continue speaking.

"I had our people trespass the Si Mansion to look for some clues but they could not find anything in the limited them. Everything looked so perfect. Many bodies had fully burnt in the fire. As for Mr. Si, only his torso was distinguishable by the time they found him," Benjamin paused for a moment before he continued.

"But there is one thing that is out of place."

Ryle raised an eyebrow, "Precisely the thing that is going to be our clue."

Ehm... Cough... Boss, aren’t you too confident? Controlling his thoughts from showing up on his face, Benjamin spoke up solemnly, "The Si Mansion had a secret exit. Our people found that the place was completely buried in the dust. Since it was dark, it was not as distinct but once they lit it up, they saw that it seemed to have been unused for a long time. Except, at places, there were no traces of dust."

Ryle’s eyes narrowed.

"There was a palm print that indicated that someone pushed the huge door and the door handles were also touched," Benjamin showed the pictures to Ryle.

Ryle gave it one glance before averting his gaze.

"Since it was a secret door, it was meant for emergencies so there was no need for them to lock it as not many people will know about it," Benjamin said, "And as it was dark, they probably did not pay attention to these minute details. Or..."

"They were in a rush to burn people alive," Ryle uttered as a smile appeared on his face.

But the sight of that bone chilling smile sent shivers down Benjamin’s spine. He did not know how long it had been since he saw that expression on the man’s face.

"Boss, this... Do we have to be this concerned about the affairs of the Si Family?" Benjamin questioned.

But there was not much of a response from Ryle except for an indifferent gaze.

Benjamin sewed his mouth shut immediately.

After some time, he spoke again, "Boss, the other matter... We got some leads..."

Ryle froze, "You... found some leads?" He pushed himself to his feet.

Benjamin was startled by his reaction but then he calmed down and said, "Yes, that nightclub... the CCTV cameras were wrecked and whatever footage was left was distorted so we tried to look into the visitors of that night."

Ryle inhaled a deep breath and sat back on the bed. That night... that gave Daisy nightmares to this day. frёeωebɳovel.com

His gaze turned cold.

It had been a long time since he asked his people to look into the matter so he could track back to the motherfucker who took advantage of Daisy.

But gradually when he saw that Daisy did not want to have anything to do with that man, he stopped the investigation immediately as desperate as he was to wring that bastard’s neck.

However, he would be damned if he could still be as calm and stay put after he realized how that night has left a shadow in her heart.

"What did you find?" Ryle looked straight at Benjamin.

"Without the footage, it is hard to monitor everything that happened. But I managed to track down two of the girls you had interacted with that night. And after some interrogation, they revealed that they had left soon after because you chased them away."

Ryle was struck speechless, "I.. what?" He pinched the spot between his brows, feeling a headache consuming him, "How did they look?"

He tried to recall but his mind drew blanks.

’That’s what you get for being a jerk.’

The voice in his head mocked.

"Forget it," Ryle sighed when Benjamin began to retrieve the pictures of those women, "You said two of those women... what does that mean?"

"That means that you had interacted with more than two women," Benjamin deadpanned.

"_"

Why... did he sound like such a despicable person?

Ryle dragged a palm down his face, "How many?"

"Only three."

Ryle shot the man a glare. What did he mean by ’only three’? No wonder he was such a scoundrel in the past. It was all thanks to having such subordinates who did not know left from right.

The more Ryle thought like that, the further he felt assured of himself. Right, wasn’t he a better person in Daisy’s company anyways?

Benjamin could not understand the occasional glares that came his way.

Ryle waved his hand and relaxed his expressions. He was not getting any younger. It was not worth it to lose his temper and frown all day. If he got some extra wrinkles in advance then he would not know how to use the face value to seduce Daisy.

"Since there are three women, why did you interrogate only two of them?"

"The third woman is not in the country at the moment. I have sent our people to track her down and bring her back."

Ryle nodded, "Also, don’t tell anything about this to Daisy... as of now."

"Yes," Benjamin said, despite being inwardly speechless. What do you not want her to know? She was right there as Dexter and she knows your previous partners more than you. Hell, some of those women even hit on her.

Benjamin could not forget it this day when one of Ryle’s fling accidentally bumped into Benjamin when he was on his way to get some work done. He had been startled by the woman’s presence initially.