Mr. Billionaire Boundless Love

Clint looked at her and continued, “I’ve spoken to the police, and they’ll come to the hospital to interview you. Someone started that fire, but the security camera system was damaged, and the police haven’t found any evidence yet. You said you were robbed by someone, right?”

Selene nodded.

Clint gave her his phone. Selene used it to check her bank account and found that 40, 000 dollars had been withdrawn. That was the maximum amount that could be taken out every two days.

“What happened?” Clint asked her.

“Do you have some paper and a pen?” She whispered.

She couldn’t speak, so she decided to write down what had happened before the police came to interview her.

Clint knew what she intended to do and gave her a pen and a piece of paper.

When the policemen arrived later, they read what Selene had written on the piece of paper. Then, one of the two police officers, Mr. Green, asked, “They took your bank card, and they withdrew money from it?”

Selene nodded.

“No problem. We’ll check the footage taken by the bank and see if we can find out who they are. They probably won’t take any more money out, as that would make it easy to catch them.” Then, the investigator thought for a moment. “How much is there left on your card?”

“Around $30, 000.” She whispered.

“Maybe the robbers saw how much there’s left. They wanted you out of the picture, so they can take that out too in two days. Then, they burned your store, so you couldn’t call the police.”

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“Officer Green,” Clint said. ”Please find those responsible for this.”

“Don’t worry, Mr. Denovan. I’ll have a team on this case as soon as possible.”

Then Selene suddenly remembered that she had heard a different set of footsteps outside the warehouse.

She looked at the police and frowned. “Maybe it wasn’t the robbers who started the fire.”

“Well, everything is possible.” The other police officer smiled.

She trusted the police could find out the truth. Thinking back to the fire, she vaguely remembered hearing some light footsteps right before the fire started.

She thought those footsteps were different from the robbers’.

After the police left, Clint noticed her worried expression and held her hand. “Don’t worry. The police will find them.”

Selene looked at Clint and noticed that the back of his hand had a darker color.

She then nodded and took away her hand from his grasp.

Clint took back his hand and smiled. “I know this is hard for you. Would you mind getting some rest? I’ll stay here with you.”

Selene’s mind was still foggy, and she felt tired and weak. She lay down on her back and promptly fell asleep.

The nightmares in her sleep persisted.

She was surrounded by heavy smoke and fire, which made it hard for her to breathe. Then she fell into endless darkness.

By the time she woke up from her dream, it was late afternoon.

Selene looked up and saw Austin sitting by her bed.

“You’ve been sleeping for a long time,” Austin said. ”You need to eat.”

Selene nodded and ate some porridge. She managed to finish the bowl even though she was not hungry. Then Austin gave her some fruit.

Selene felt much better than before.

She lifted her head and looked at Austin. “I want to go to the store to take a look.” She whispered.

“It’s burned down, and there isn’t much left. I’ll take you to check when you’ll recover. For now, though, you should rest.”

But Selene ignored his advice and slowly climbed down from the bed. “I need to see.”

Austin knew how stubborn she was and hurriedly walked forward to support her. “Fine. I’ll take you.”

When Selene and Austin arrived at the store, the burnt site looked very desolate.

It was mainly just burned rubble.

Mandy was there, cleaning and sweeping. When she saw Selene, she sobbed, clearly distressed about the store had burned down.

“I’m glad you’re okay. How are you feeling?”

Selene patted her on the arm. “I’m fine.” She whispered.

“What about your voice?”

“She breathed in too much smoke, and her throat was damaged. So she won’t be able to speak for a while.” Austin explained.

“How did the fire start? I heard there was a robbery. Why did they try to kill you? Wasn’t the money enough?”

Selene raised the corner of her lips but said nothing.

With Austin’s help, Selene walked into the store and looked at the remaining half of the couch.

The sewing machine was black from being burnt.

Austin looked at Selene worryingly. “Don’t worry about the store. I’ve spoken to a company, and they will rebuild it. The insurance will cover the costs.”

“We can postpone existing orders, but the dresses Selene’s made for the JU Brand competition are all gone,” Mandy said with sadness in her voice.

Selene smiled helplessly.

She had put a lot of effort into those dresses, and the competition was a rare opportunity, even though she didn’t necessarily want to win it.

She felt sad even though she pretended not to be. She forced a smile.

“Miss Morris?” A male voice called out.

Selene turned around and saw a car parked by the store. The driver came out of the car.

Selene walked forward and pointed at the burnt store.

It was JU Brand’s director, Mike. “Mr. Denovan told me about your store. I just came by to see it for myself. How are you feeling?”

“I’m fine,” She whispered. ”But my voice is gone for now.”

“This is terrible and unexpected,” Mike said, looking at the burnt rubble. “Were the dresses for the competition in the fire?”

Selene nodded.

Mike thought for a while. “Mr. Denovan asked me if we could give you extra time to remake the dresses. Unfortunately, I can’t make that happen, as the design director has the final say in this. The best I can do is convince him to give you one more week to make three dresses. How does that sound?”