Chapter 119
Alexander slowly turned the glass in his hand and stared at the juice inside. His voice was cold. "I gave them three choices. The first option was to be secretly sent to a mental hospital overseas. They wouldn’t be able to leave or contact the outside world. The second option was to be secretly imprisoned by me and undergo plastic surgery to look like fugitives. I would send someone to create the illusion that they committed suicide and disappeared. Four years later, I would persuade their families to apply to the court to declare them dead and take all their assets. As soon as the court pronounces them dead, I’ll set them free. The third option is to accept the charges I’ve pinned on them and go to jail. They don’t deserve to die, but if they perform well in prison, they might be released in ten or twenty years."
Avery’s mouth widened slightly. All three options were ruthless! He wouldn’t kill or disable them, but they would be tortured for a long time. Living would be barely better than dying.
Alexander smiled faintly. "They all chose the third option."
Avery was curious. "What are you going to charge them with?"
Alexander smiled. "Three people broke into the house with knives. The amount stolen was huge, and they kidnapped, imprisoned, and abused the owner of the house, who was under the age of 18, causing the owner to suffer from serious depression."
Avery replied with an "Oh" and drank her juice. The three of them had committed these crimes. Their sentences should be life imprisonment or a suspended death sentence. It was reasonable.
Alexander looked at her. "Will you think what I’m doing is scary?"
Avery shrugged. "Not as scary as what the murderers did. If I were you, I’d probably do the same." The three murderers had almost killed Lucy, Alexander, and Alexander’s friend who was brought to the scene. In fact, they had caused the driver’s death. If this case were exposed, the three of them should be sentenced to life imprisonment or death.
Alexander lowered his eyes. His long eyelashes concealed the calmness in his gaze. "Thank you for thinking that way." He thought, ’I don’t care what others think of me, as long as Miss Carter doesn’t think I’m scary.’
Avery patted her chest and said seriously, "Don’t think that I’m a good person. When I’m ruthless, I’m also very scary."
Alexander laughed softly. ’No matter how I look at her, I don’t think she’s scary. I only think she’s cute like this.’ Of course, he wouldn’t say it out loud. When Avery saw him like this, she secretly rolled her eyes and changed the topic. "Volume six of ’Lockwood’s Detective Diary’ needs a conclusion. How about I tweak the identities, backgrounds, and motives of the three culprits a bit? This way, readers won’t suspect that the case in the book is related to your sister. Does that work?" She hadn’t updated for three days, and the readers were already arguing, making it to the trending searches. She was afraid that if she didn’t update, the readers would become restless.