Chapter 144: A Case of Identity (7)
"... Holmes?" Upon hearing the groaning sound coming from the floor above, Watson, her gun on the ready, hurried up the stairs. Once she reached her destination though, she looked at the scene before her with a dazed look in her eyes.
"Why are you here...?"
The cause? For reasons she couldn’t fathom, her colleague and partner— Charlotte Holmes was there at the scene, that too with a flushed face while suspiciously wiping her mouth off using her sleeve.
"Watson, this, this is..."
"Er-hem."
On the other hand, her fiancé— Neville, was trembling ever so subtly while standing beside Holmes, his head bowed. Again, the reason for his behaviour eluded her, just like the reason for Charlotte’s presence.
"What on earth were you two doing here?"
When he avoided her gaze with a nervous expression, a layer of suspicion started brimming in Watson's as she observed him.
"How did Holmes know about this place, why is she in this room even, and… just what happened for you to be sweating so much?”