“Thanks, Mrs. Sutton, that’s really kind of you.” Jake sipped from the glass Brenda gave him.
“It tastes…uhm…nice….”
Around twenty minutes later, Jake dozed off on the couch, just like Brenda had wanted. Harper couldn’t fly without a passport and plane ticket, so now, Brenda had to wait for her to call or text Jake. “What’s taking her so long?
It’s 5:30,” Brenda mumbled under her breath. Suddenly, Jake’s phone rang, shattering the stillness in the room. The caller name, “Sarah,” flashed on the screen.
But Brenda never answered the call. Eventually, a message notification appeared. “How could you oversleep, idiot?
Have you forgotten we’re flying to London today? I’m getting a taxi and coming to your house right now.”
“Come…I’m waiting for you…HARPER!”
Brenda grinned wickedly as she hid behind the front door. Around 30 minutes later, Brenda peered through the peephole and saw a taxi pull up outside.
She quickly called the cops. The door creaked open, and Harper stepped inside. Brenda could not believe her eyes when she saw her face.
Her daughter-in-law was very much alive! “Jake! Are you kidding me?
Get up,” Harper barked at an unconscious Jake lying on the couch. That’s when a familiar voice spoke from behind, startling her. “ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOMEONE, HARPER?” Brenda said, striking a hard blow to Harper’s head with a vase.
A startled Harper collapsed on the floor and blacked out. Moments later, Brenda heard police sirens and hurried outside. She explained the situation to the cops and showed them the fake passports and flight tickets.
Jake and Harper were hospitalized and later transferred to the police station for interrogation. Jake refused to confess to his crimes, but Harper came clean when she learned her sentence could get cut off if she confessed the truth. “We bribed a morgue worker and stole a homeless woman’s body.
We put the body, wearing my gold chain, in the driver’s seat of my car and set it alight…Then we rammed the car from behind, causing it to fall off the cliff to make it appear like an accident.”
“And what about the money you stole?” The detective stared Harper in the eye. “The five million has been transferred to our new bank accounts…we thought everything was covered…the new passports, the bank accounts, the flight…Jake and I thought we’d get away with it. But…” Harper paused and broke down, burying her head in her cuffed hands.
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