Chapter 84: Start from scratch.
Dylan fell silent. For years, he had harbored a bitter resentment toward Thomas, fueled by what he had thought was irrefutable proof of the man’s involvement in killing his parents. He had never thought of looking into the accident of his parents. But now, with the nightmares surfacing night after night, his conviction was wavering.
The dreadful feeling of losing everything, including his own life, had made him realize that something miserable had happened in his past life. The nightmares were more than just dreams—they felt like fractured memories from another life. Because of someone’s sinister plan, he and the Williams family had met tragic, agonizing ends.
Dylan had no way of proving it, but the intensity of the visions left him shaken stirring an instinctive sense that someone had orchestrated this web of vengeance. Yet, he couldn’t utter a word about his suspicions to anyone. No one would believe tales of rebirth and fragmented memories. People would only think that he had lost his mind.
"Can’t you simply follow my commands without asking questions?" he snapped, pretending to be irritated. "I just... I can’t shake the feeling that we missed something. Someone deliberately tampered with the evidence back then, misguided me, and made me believe that Thomas was the culprit. But the actual mastermind is hiding in the shadows."
He clenched his jaw, his fingers tightening around the phone unconsciously as the image of the faceless woman in his nightmare crossed his mind. He would dig deeper into it.
"Just don’t ask me anything now," he cautioned Justin. "Start from scratch. I want every angle examined, every possible lead, no matter how small. Talk to the witness again. Find out if he had lied back then. Do anything but I want the truth this time." His tone left no room for questions.
"Alright, I get it," Justin replied, his tone matching the seriousness of Dylan’s. "I’ll look at this whole incident from a different angle. By the way, Mr. Williams doesn’t seem to be too cruel to kill your parents. I’ll be more than happy if I can prove that he is innocent. I’ll do my best, sir."
Inside the bathroom...
Ava stood under the cascade of warm water and let the warm water fall freely on herself, her mind drifting back to Dylan’s words. His plea for a second chance was unexpected. For the first time, she had seen him so desperate, trying to save their failing marriage. It was surprising.