Chapter 211: The Wrong Body
As the papers spilled across the floor, Elias moved quickly to gather them, but then paused. His hand hovered over a photograph that had slipped out of a beige folder. He picked it up slowly, his brows furrowing as something clicked in his mind and he raised up the picture, showing it to Melanie as he asked quietly, "Why don’t we start looking from here?"
Melanie blinked,and looked down at the image, understanding nothing. It was a crime scene photo—a woman lying on the floor, surrounded by yellow tape and evidence markers, with blood around the side of her face. Her eyes were shut, her face partially obscured by dried blood.
Melanie looked at Elias and asked in confused. "Start from where?"
He pointed directly at the woman in the photograph. "Her. From Saira. Saira was brought in with Adam and no one came to claim her. She is still in the morgue."
Melanie recoiled, and took the picture form his hand as she looked at it closely, "What are you talking about? The woman in the picture is definitely not Saira."
Melanie stared harder at the photo now, heart pounding again for a whole new reason. "No," she whispered. "I know Saira. This... this isn’t her. The bone structure’s a bit off. She has a sharper jawline. And the hair length is different. This is definitely not Saira... I am sure of it... she is a close resemblance..."
At this moment Elias and Melanie both were stunned. How could this be possible?
Finally, Elias shook his head and said," Let’s not go off the tangent here. You said she is a close resemblance. Maybe the pictures appear off. Let us just go to the morgue and check...
Elias sat back on his heels, frowning deeply. "If this isn’t Saira... then someone faked her death. Someone planted a body and passed it off as hers."