Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1844

After listening to that, Arianne felt her heart becoming tighter. She did not even dare to think of how the kidnappers had tortured Mateo to death before chopping off his finger.

When she saw how bold Geralt was as he walked past the cordon to enter the bloody crime scene, Arianne was slightly worried. “Wouldn’t you contaminate the crime scene?”

Geralt stopped in his tracks to look at her before gesturing her forward. “Don’t worry, the investigation here is done. The cordon will be removed at any moment. The thing that I wanted to show you is here.”

Arianne frowned as she hesitantly walked a few steps forward; within the cordoned area was a wooden chair that was filled with dust. There were also some pieces of rope scattered and blood splatters that had already begun to turn black. The scene before her was extremely chilling to the bone.

Then, Geralt bent down as he slowly pulled away a piece of rock that was as big as his fist. “Look here.”

Arianne went forward and saw some scratch marks beneath the rock, which seemed to have been forcefully carved with something hard. There were also traces of blood on it, and the markings weren’t clear or regular. Coupled with the fact that Arianne was not a forensics personnel, she did not find the markings strange. “What about it?”

Geralt extended his fingers and seemed to connect the markings with his finger. “Take a closer look. Wouldn’t these scratch marks become a certain word? After our investigation ended, I kept thinking that there was something weird with the crime scene, so I came back alone and found this.”

‘A certain word?’

After Geralt drew in the air with his finger, Arianne could recognize the markings to form a crooked “M”.

Geralt expected for Arianne to have such a huge reaction, yet he calmly said, “When you told me that Mark has got nothing to do with this matter, I was really willing to believe you. However, now that the evidence is right in front of us, it’s not up to me not to believe anymore. Apart from this, the investigation team have also found a gold cross necklace that Teo used to wear on the crime scene. On the cross, there were traces of it being scratched as well, my guess is that he used that to carve the word ‘M’ on the ground. However, since the body isn’t here, the investigation team closed their search here very soon. In fact, I haven’t had the time to report about them markings to my superior yeet. Stop lying to yourself, don’t you think that the amount of love that Mark has for you is too extreme and terrifying? He doesn’t even believe that you and Teo are innocent, that’s why he’s able to do something like this!”

Arianne had gone through a lot before she could finally believe Mark, hence she did not wish to doubt him again. She endured her nausea and disgust as she bent over to take a good look at the markings on the floor. ‘No matter how I look at this, this is an unfinished “M”...’

Then, Arianne tried her best to make the markings seem clearer, hence she used her finger to rub against the dust and blood stains on the floor until her finger began to ache.

Geralt quickly pulled her away. “I know you refuse to believe it, but there’s no need for you to do this… Under this kind of environment and weather, who is to tell what kind of bacteria you might contract if you’ve got a wound on your finger. You will have to forgive me for being meticulous of cleanliness, it comes with the job. I didn’t bring you here for a particular reason, but I think that Teo died because of you. So, if you were to continue to stay with that monster, Teo’s death would be completely in vain. If Mark is able to do this to Teo, who knows when he’ll do the same to you. You should stay away from this kind of person, this is my sincere advice!”