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317 - The Suspicious Cab Driver
Author: Rytir
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Dorothy is never a strong woman to begin with. She isn’t even able to hear the entire explanation from the police. She has already lost consciousness since the police said about the death of her husband.

She is now swaying as she begins to fall. But luckily, the other police officer, a female, manages to hold Dorothy before she falls. She then turns her face to her partner by showing an uninspired face.

“What?” he asks.

“How could you just spew everything like you are talking to a bot? Think about her feelings, damn it!”

Later, when Dorothy regains her consciousness, she finds Lucas already there serving those two officers with a serious conversation. And smoothly, Lucas averts the police’s attention to Victor, by bringing up the story about the weird phone call Atkinson received last night.

“I’ve already filed a report for the disappearance of my dad. But the police said that I have to wait for 2 days before filing a report for a missing person. Now look at what had happened to my da
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