2025-01-16 03:25:15Mr Richard Langley led Manchester to the security room and asked the butler to wait outside while the detective did his job. Manchester could see a glint of anxiety in the butler's eyes and he took a mental note of that. As a detective, all kinds of reactions were important to him.
With the doors closed Manchester was faced with two large monitors hanging on the walls, a desk with a keyboard and mouse, along with two chairs. He sat down and Mr. Langley did the same, watching the young detective skillfully scroll through the visual images on the screen. //Transferring security footage via wireless network// //Transfer complete // // You may select footage Vid_123 // Manchester scrolled down the screen and as soon as he spotted the videos, he clicked on it. It was a two hours long footage so he put it on fast-forward until he spotted someone in it. This footage was from a surveillance camera in the garden, and it was ten minutes to the hour of theft, it captured someone lurking behind the bushes in the garden, wearing a black hoodie. Richards's eyes widened in shock, this footage wasn't there when they checked earlier, so where had it come from and who could it be? "Do you know who this person might be sir?" Manchester asked. He couldn't quite match the figure on the screen with the servant he had met, but Mr. Richard Langley should know better. Unfortunately, the elderly man shook his head from side to side, "I don't know who this is. Do you think it might be the thief?" He said, overemphasising his British accent for a second... "I can't say," Manchester replied "I need images from another angle." // System Notifications! // //Analyzing Footage from the third surveillance camera// // Retrieving footage... complete !// // Transferring security footage via wireless network// //Transfer complete !// //You may select footage Vid_126// "Just a second let me attempt to retrieve other footage," Manchester muttered, acting like some technical wizard at work. "Got it!" He exclaimed and opened the footage, only to be left speechless by what he saw. "Emma?" Mr. Richard Langley's jaws dropped in astonishment, "Emma stole the necklace? What for?" "I cannot be so sure, sir," Manchester interjected, the footage has only told them who was lurking in the bushes but not who stole the necklace. "I'd like to bring Emma in here please." Mr. Richard Langley sprang to his feet like a servant and headed for the door, he instructed the butler to call Emma to the security room. The butler nodded and did as he was told to, and in no time Emma was standing next to Manchester, her eyes glued to the screen with her eyes wide open. "I'd like to ask you a few questions," Manchester began, "Starting with why you were lurking in the bushes?" "I...I can explain." As she tried to speak, Mr. Langley cut her off with a loud voice. "Oh, you better start explaining!"He thundered, his voice echoing off the walls, "Explain why you stole it ... "Mr. Langley please," Manchester chimed in, "Allow me to handle this." "Miss Emma, can you explain this footage because I know you were at the garden, and you claimed to have seen Atkinson there right? So what is this about?" He folded his arm after pausing the video and locked eyes with the lady. "Yes I was in the garden," Emma began, "And this was me lurking in the bushes in a hoodie, but I put on the hoodie because I was cold... "In the middle of summer? You liar!" My Langley thundered, but Manchester tried to calm him down once again, "Go on, Miss Emma." "I swear on my name, Detective that all I was doing was eavesdropping on someone's conversation, and uhm... it was Atkinson. I was listening to Atkinson's conversation with someone in the garden." "And did you know who it was and what they were saying?" Manchester asked, but Emma shook her head from side to side. "I could barely hear anything because he was whispering on the phone but that is just it. I didn't hear anything that would be useful to you sir." "Oh please, these cock and bull stories will not save you or Atki...Atkinson!" Mr. Langley started again, this time he stood up and called for the butler, asking him to bring Atkinson to the room immediately. "Emma, the problem here is that you are the only maid with access to the computer room, and all the footage from yesterday till this morning has mysteriously vanished. You keep pointing to Atkinsons but all the evidence points to you. So even if you didn't steal the necklace yourself then you had a hand in it." //+ 300 Exp // //Two potential suspects: Emma (Chief maid at the manor). Atkinson (Cheif guard at the manor)// "I can promise you, sir. I have nothing to do with it." Just then, Atkinson entered the room, he knew by the look on their faces that a bombshell had been dropped, but what was it? "You sent for me?" He said. "Yes, Mr. Atkinsons. I have a question and I don't want to start beating around the Bush. Just answer me yes or no." Atkinson nodded his head in agreement so Manchester proceeded. "Did you make a call at the garden around the time the necklace went missing?" "Yes." "With whom?" The room was thrown into silence as Atkinson just stared at Manchester without saying a word. "With who!" Mr. Langley thundered, "Didn't you hear the question? Answer him!" "With a friend," Atkinson answered briskly, "It has nothing to do with the stolen necklace I swear, it was just a random conversation. " "A conversation that was so interesting, that Emma had to hide in the bushes to listen?" At Manchester's words, Atkinson and Emma cast nervous glances at each other. "I don't believe the both of you," Manchester stood up briskly, his voice dripped with disdain. "And I have enough evidence to arrest the both of you as potential suspects, we will settle the rest at the station." "Please sir, " Emma fell to her knees in front of Mr Richard Langley, "I promise that I have nothing to do with the theft, please. Okay if you want to know what I overheard him saying on the phone I will tell you, but please do not arrest me I beg you." "What did you hear?" Manchester asked, his voice was firm and he showed no sign of empathy towards the pleading maid, "Tell me everything you heard."
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73. I- married a single dad
Before Manchester could knock on Valerie's door, the nanny already opened it, not because she had seen him before now, but because she wanted to throw something in the trash."Good evening, sir," she greeted him with a smile."Hi, how are you?" Manchester asked, reciprocating the energy,"Hope Nelson, wasn't much trouble today?" He asked immediately, without even letting her respond to his first question.The nanny shook her head,"No, not at all."After this brief discussion, Manchester walks into the living room, and the sight before him is so heartwarming that he wishes to take a picture of it. But that would be very awkward to do.He didn't know how, but Valerie had figured out Nelson's favourite cartoon channel, and he was seated on her lap, engrossed in the art, while Valerie fed him.Manchester's mind flashed back to when Mel would do this, and he walked in on them with a beaming smile."Hi," he muttered, like a stranger who walked into a place where he wasn't invited."Manches
72. I- am rich
"Morris Hemsworth," Manchester uttered, flashing his ID before the lady at the counter. "Is she on seat?" "I'm sorry sir," the lady replied, "Her shift is not until 2pm today, is there any problem?" "I'm on a case, and I need to speak with her as soon as possible, do you know where she lives?" Before Manchester could finish speaking, the lady answered. "We don't give out staff information, sir. I'm afraid you'd have to speak with our officials. I'm not authorised to do that, or I'll get in trouble." Manchester sighed, "That's okay, I need to speak with them now if you don't mind... no... I need to speak with them now, it's important." The lady was taken aback by Manchester's sudden shift in demeanour, almost as if he paused to reset himself before speaking up again. "I will put our sitting manager on call now." Manchester waited impatiently, but within a few minutes, he was directed to the manager's office. Just like the chief had told him, Manchester went straig
71. I- don't need to wait for her shift.
"..." Silence stretched on for a few minutes, the doctor staring at the both of them as though they had said something shocking. "Well, doctor?" "We don't give out patients' details to just anyone, I'm afraid." the doctor replied, thinking that he had pulled a smart card, but even before Manchester could say a word, the chief took out a card from his uniform pocket and placed it on the table. "I'm pretty sure that you recognise what this is, right?" He asked, staring at the doctor directly in the eyes. So far, his behaviour has proven to them that he has a hand in rigging the result. "He sure is bad at hiding it." Manchester thought. As the doctor gazed upon the card on his desk, he choked on his words. The card was a permit from the court, granting the team access to whatever information they needed for the case they were working on. "I... "Have no choice but to tell us what it is that you discussed, doctor." Manchester took the words right out of his mouth. "We are
70. I- would love to know what conversation you had afterwards.
Past 12, Manchester had already been to Valerie's home to say hello to her and his son before heading for the station. They had called him a few hours after he had sent the report. He feared that they might ask for evidence to permit this case, but he chose to go anyway, "What's the worst that could happen?" He thought. As he got to the station, he was directed to the Chief's office, and just on his table, was a printed copy of his report. "Seat down," the chief instructed Manchester. The chief's face looked very familiar, but Manchester couldn't remember where he'd seen the man before. "When I saw this report, I printed it out immediately, because I saw your name on at the bottom. Good afternoon, Mr Manchester Duke. My name is Anderson, and I was at the court earlier yesterday when you were instructed to hand the child over to Cain Hycinth in three days." "Oh," Manchester muttered, 'now that's where I met him, at the court.' "Nice to meet you, sir," Manchester said
69. I- begged you already.
"You are kidding right?" Mel asked. She didn't think he would get so serious about letting her go all of a sudden. In fact, she couldn't bear the shame that would come along with This was a man she left everything for, abandoned Manchester and Nelson just so she could be with him. A man who thought that she had always been single and always gave her whatever she needed or wanted without her having to try too hard. She also couldn't fathom life without him, not now. She had plans to use his wealth to set herself up, to start up a business, to own a fashion line or to run a prestigious company like him, but he's about to let her go, just like that. "I already said that I am sorry," she pleaded, falling to her knees before him with those puppy eyes that always seemed to get his attention. "I said I was just trying to get your attention to know why you were so sad since yesterday. I love you so much, Roger, and you love me too, please don't do this to me." "Just pack your things and
68. I- am done
"That freak of a man!" Mel snapped after multiple attempts to reach Manchester, but he continued to ignore her call. From the first to the seventh time, and if she's being honest, this was a shock. Somehow, she imagined in her head that Manchester still loved her and still wanted her. She always assumed that he was jealous of getting a new relationship and wouldn't hesitate to win her back if he could. And most of all, she thought that Manchester would want her to beg for his forgiveness, but she wasn't in the mood for all that thought at the moment. All that she could think about was Nelson's life, which was in danger. She couldn't care less if anything happened to Manchester himself, but there was still a place for the little kid in her heart, even though she had deliberately closed it up with greed. She wasn't too worried about anything happening to Nelson in Manchester's care, but the death threat hit her hard. She didn't want him to die, but she also didn't want to give Cain
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