"No." Charlotte immediately shook her head. Suddenly, she realized that she answered too quickly, and she hastily added, "I have thought back on what happened that day after I heard about Stephanie's death, and I really can't think of anything unusual."
"I checked the tea room, and from the order in which the tea sets were arranged, it looked like your tea drinking ended quite abruptly halfway through. May I ask, why did you finish early?" At this moment, a sharp light reflected from Karl's eyes, staring straight at Charlotte.
Charlotte was stunned, not expecting Karl to ask such a question at all.
Indeed, Stephanie got up and left abruptly that day after she began to suspect her. It had never occurred to her that she needed to rearrange the tea set. She didn't expect Karl to be so perceptive as to notice such a trace.
She hesitated and froze for a moment before saying, "Grandma suddenly said she was sleepy. So I helped her into her room to sleep."
"So, you've been in Stephanie's room, too?" Karl asked lightheartedly as he took notes.
And by now, Charlotte's heartbeat had gradually spiked.
All of them were questions she didn't expect.
She realized that she had made a mistake in her answer. Perhaps she should not have answered that she had helped Stephanie to her room but should have said that she had left directly. But what was said could not be changed.
"Yes, I went in there," Charlotte replied stiffly.
"What was Stephanie doing while you were gone?" Karl asked again.
"She, she was ready to lie down and go to sleep." Charlotte felt as if she was in a trap already, unable to get out of his seductive inquiry.
"Sorry, it's not convenient to tell you that." Charlotte coldly rebuffed.
She had expected Karl to ask more questions, but to her surprise, Karl closed the computer and said respectfully, "Thank you for your cooperation. We have taken your statement, goodbye."
After saying that, Karl left the cubicle without looking back.
Leaving Charlotte behind with a puzzled look on her face.
On a hunch, he always felt there was something wrong. From the scene, Stephanie should be sitting on the bed and falling to the ground, instead of lying down and then falling to the ground. He could not think of a connection. Although Stephanie died when Charlotte had long left…
But he always felt that Charlotte was not simple. From the conversation just now, he also noticed a few flaws in Charlotte’s statement. Stephanie's meeting with her was definitely not that simple…
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