Chapter 1304 Let It Go
Shane’s eyes narrowed as he said chillingly, “I know. I just think that she had it too easy.”
Natalie patted his back. “I don’t think she had it easy.”
“What makes you say so?” Shane raised his head to look at her. The crease on his forehead deepened. He was curious about her thoughts.
Natalie explained with a smile, “Didn’t you say that the reason Jacqueline took her own life was that she was an arrogant and conceited person that didn’t want to be punished by anyone else but herself? Well, I think people like her won’t choose a path to end their life like that if she has any other way. I reckoned she wanted to live more than anyone else. Otherwise, she would’ve committed suicide much earlier. I bet she must have experienced tremendous fear and suffering during the time she was confined in the Graham residence.”
Understanding flashed across Shane’s eyes upon hearing her words.
She’s saying Jacqueline chose to die because she was tortured mentally. So it doesn’t really matter if she didn’t suffer physically.
“Maybe.” He didn’t object as he massaged the spot between his brows.
Natalie rubbed his shoulder to soothe his tense muscles. “Stop overthinking things. Losing an enemy is a good thing. At least she died in front of you, knowing she had no way of staying alive once she fell into your hands. If she had died from an accident at an unknown place, you would have been unsatisfied with her ending.”
After all, dying from an accident at some place Shane doesn’t know of is a mockery of the decade-long revenge he prepared.
Natalie’s long-winded advice finally got through to him. Shane sucked in a breath, relaxing his tense body. He was able to let go of his frustration slightly.
Natalie patted his shoulder gently. “How are you planning to deal with Jacqueline’s body?”
“She’ll be cremated and buried in some cemetery,” Shane answered with disgust in his tone.
One thing’s for sure, I’ll never bury Jacqueline with my parents. I don’t want her to bother them even in the afterlife. They might feel troubled to see her every day.
“That works.” Natalie nodded, agreeing with him.
Just then, Shane’s phone rang, interrupting their conversation.
Natalie looked over her shoulder and saw Silas’ name flashing across the phone’s screen.
“You’d better take the call. It’s from Mr. Campbell.” She reached for the phone and passed it over to Shane.
Shane muttered an acknowledgment as he took the phone. He didn’t slide the phone to his ear. Instead, he put the call on speaker.
“Yes?” he asked.
Silas’ voice echoed from the other end of the line. “Mr. Shane, we’ve sanitized the entire Graham residence and sent Jacqueline’s body to the nearest morgue.”
Shane nodded his head. “Got it. Have you informed Jackson?”
“Not yet. Something delayed my schedule in the afternoon, so I didn’t get the chance,” Silas scratched his head sheepishly as he answered. Shane frowned. “What was it?”
“It was something to do with the Gunn family. I think it’s too much of a coincidence. When Jacqueline was alive, the Gunn family was still able to hang on despite being under the constant pressure of the Garcia family and the fact that a single push was all that was needed to push them over the ledge. However, the moment Jacqueline passed away, the Garcia family informed me the Gunn family had collapsed, and Mr. Gunn and his sons were all taken in for investigation,” Silas reported.
Initially, the Gunn family didn’t have any grudges against the Thompson family despite the fact that Mr. Gunn was Jacqueline’s great-grandfather.
In fact, Shane had enlisted the help of the Gunn family to search for the culprit behind Natalie’s assassinations twice before. However, when the Gunn family found out the culprit was Jacqueline, they covered for her and blamed everything on Alice.
Of course, Shane wouldn’t have asked the Garcia family to target the prominent Gunn family for that reason only. It was when he found out the truth about Jacqueline being his parents’ murderer that he changed his mind.
When the Gunn family covered for Jacqueline, they not only covered for Natalie’s murderer but also covered for his parents’ murderer. They became his enemy the moment they took Jacqueline’s side. He hated them for protecting the killer and enlisted the help of the Garcia family to take the Gunn family down.
