The Runaway Groom
Chapter 524

Chapter 524

Ember could kick herself right then. Why did she forget to delete the text?

It was now fuel for Zachary to suspect her!

"They were trying to blackmail me, I was just playing along so that we can arrest them-"

"And they had to blackmail you?” Zachary’s grip over her wrist became even more forceful. "You knew you did something wrong. That's why they have leverage against you and could blackmail you-"

"No!" Ember kept arguing. “I didn't do anything wrong! I really wanted to arrest them, not because I was guilty and would give them money-" Zachary frowned. "Stop trying to weasel your way out of this!"

“I'm not!" Ember had to keep denying, or Zachary would hate her and they would be unable to hide what happened to Lulu.

"I swear, I never did anything wrong, and I was really trying to get my blackmailer arrested,” she persisted.

Zachary actually hesitated at that.

"We're already married, Ember. I don't want you to hurt Lulu, so tell me already-do you know where she is?"

Ember held his gaze. "That's right, we're married. Why would I want to hurt her?"

Zachary was stumped.

“But”

"If you won't believe me, then what must I do for you to believe me? I'll do anything.”

Ember had already caught on that Zachary might have been the one who ' blackmailed" her somehow.

However, while he had reason enough to suspect her, he did not have solid evidence, or he would be throwing it in her face instead of questioning her like this.

She had a chance to turn things around, and therefore just needed to stay calm to get through this.

Leveling a miserable look at Zachary, she continued, "Someone must be trying to frame me. You need evidence for this kind of thing..." Zachary was silent.

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'Yes, I even promised money, but what does that mean? I said I was just trying to get them arrested, or there might be more people blackmailing me for no reason..."

“For no reason?" Zachary gave her a sharp look, “I have no evidence, but I'm not stupid-you promised money because you were guilty, and you know yourself if you did it. If you want me to forgive you, tell me where Lulu is, and I just might forgive you."

Zachary, not being a complete idiot, foiled Embers attempts to lie her way out. However, she knew that she must never admit that she knew where Lulu was-it would be equal to admitting she was behind the banners.

So, she put up a wounded look. "You don't believe me?"

"I will if you tell me where Lulu is." Zachary's grip is getting more forceful by the moment. “Is she safe? Is she alright?!"

“I really don't know..." Ember kept refusing.

“What is all this noise?!" Mrs. Slate snapped just then.

She had come upstairs after hearing the commotion, looking the part of a rich housewife with her pearls and tailored dress.

Ember had worked diligently to have Mrs. Slate wrapped around her litle finger, and her arrival could not have been more timely for Ember as she quickly leapt behind her. "You have t0 help me. Mrs. Slate! Zachary is blaming me for the banner on our wedding and Lulu's disappearance, but I don't know anything!”

In reality, Mrs. Slate was actually working with Embers parents to make Lulu “disappear. since Ember pretended that she knew nothing, Mrs. Slate presumed that too.

And in her eyes, Zachary questioning Ember was an injustice.

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