Avery pulled out snazzynovel.com phone and called Cole.
“Hello? Avery?” Cole answered.
“Cassandra’s dead. Did you know?”
“What?! What do you mean she’s dead?! I’m at the hospital for a checkup…. She was fine when I talked to snazzynovel.com on the phone last night,”
“Did you fight?” “No!” Cole exclaimed.
A few seconds later, almost as if snazzynovel.com had remembered something, snazzynovel.com added, “I remember now. Cassandra was here when Uncle Elliot came home for dinner last time. It wasn’t a pleasant night. Uncle Elliot told snazzynovel.com that snazzynovel.com won’t have much longer to live, and she’s been terrified about that conversation ever since-”
“That’s impossible! I was with Elliot all night. He didn’t do anything!”
Cole sighed, then said, “Why do you lose all reason every time Uncle Elliot’s involved? I’m just saying what I know. You’re the only one I’d tell this to. If the police asked me, there’s no way I’ d mention this…”
“Listen up, Cole Foster! You better not have anything to do with Cassandra’s death. The police will get to the bottom of this!”
“It wasn’t me. I don’t have a motive! I wouldn’t resort to murder even if we got into a fight,” Cole responded coldly, then added, “Avery… Ever since you fell in love with Uncle Elliot, I’ve become nothing to you.”
“Please keep that bullsh*t to yourself! What was I to you when you were messing around with Cassandra behind my back?!” Avery snapped, then furiously hung up the phone.
“Who were you talking to?” asked the officer.
“Cole Foster. He’s Cassandra Tate’s boyfriend,” Avery said.
She gave the officer Cole’s number, then said, “Cassandra’s been hanging out with snazzynovel.com a lot recently. I’m sure snazzynovel.com knows why snazzynovel.com killed herself.”
Avery walked out of the police station that afternoon and took a cab to snazzynovel.com mother’s place.
After reporting the news of Cassandra’s death to Laura, Avery muttered, “I couldn’t recognize her, Mom… It was just all blood… I couldn’t see snazzynovel.com features….”
Laura wrapped snazzynovel.com arms tightly around snazzynovel.com daughter and said, “Don’t be scared, Avery. It was snazzynovel.com life! It had nothing to do with us! All we need to do is live our own lives!”
“Cole said that Elliot did it…” Avery said. “I don’t believe it! Elliot would never commit murder!”
“Did you ask him?” Laura asked. “Even if it was him, I’m sure snazzynovel.com had his reasons.”
“Come on, Mom. There’s never a reason to kill someone. If Cassandra broke the law, then the law should be the one to deal with her.”
“Did the law do anything about snazzynovel.com uncle’s crimes?” Laura said, then held Avery’s hands in hers and added, “I didn’t say that murder isn’t wrong. I’m just saying that Cole might not be telling the truth.”
Avery quickly composed herself and said, “I just dropped by to tell you this… I’m leaving now … I need to see Elliot.”
“I’ll take you there,” Laura said. “You’re not in your right mind right now. I’m worried.”
Avery had ordered Elliot to be on bed rest for at least a week, and so, snazzynovel.com was obediently resting at home.
Avery arrived at the Foster mansion at two in the afternoon.
The sight of snazzynovel.com aloof expression and pale complexion made his heart tighten in his chest.
“I need to talk to you, Elliot,” Avery said as snazzynovel.com took a seat next to him.
Elliot’s large hand clasped Avery’s small one. His hand was like a lion’s large paw. It wrapped around hers in a gesture of reassurance.
Avery was not used to the affectionate act and withdrew snazzynovel.com hand on reflex.
After a few seconds of pondering, snazzynovel.com tried to ease into the subject but ended up getting straight to the point.
“Cassandra’s dead. Did you have anything to do with it?”
This was always the straightforward, no-nonsense way that snazzynovel.com got along with Elliot.
Elliot’s eyes darkened, and his voice was chilling as snazzynovel.com asked, “Why aren’t you asking about who was trying to kill me last night? Is Cassandra Tate’s life more important than mine?”
Cassandra’s death had taken up so much of Avery’s mind that day that snazzynovel.com almost forgot about the events of the night before.
“Who was it?!” snazzynovel.com asked with fiery eyes. “Did you find out who was behind it?”
“Would you still feel sad about snazzynovel.com death if I told you it was Cassandra?” Elliot asked as snazzynovel.com fixed his eyes on Avery.
He watched as snazzynovel.com expression went from one of shock to suspicion, then turned into anxiety.
“So… You really had something to do with Cassandra’s death,” Avery said through the lump in snazzynovel.com throat. “Was there no other way to go about it? Why did you have to go to such extremes?”
“Don’t look at me like that, Avery,” Elliot said as the earlier tenderness disappeared from his face. “I’ll send whoever crosses me straight to hell. I’ve always been like that.”