Revenge is Best Served After Reborn (James)

On the second floor, Sophie led Angelo into her room. The moment Angelo realized Sophie was leading him to her bedroom, his mind started racing.

"Sophie, with Colby not around... is it really okay for me to be here?" he asked, feeling a bit uneasy.

Sophie plopped down on the couch and reassured him, "Angelo, only Colby and I know about Kiran. This room is soundproof and bug-proof; it's the best place to talk."

"Oh! Got it!" Angelo said, feeling a mix of relief and confusion. He had thought...

Sophie cut to the chase, "Actually, I'm curious. Did Kiran also come to Devonport?"

"Him? In Devonport? No way!" Angelo exclaimed. "The man's dead. Could his spirit have flown back or something?"

But then Angelo remembered the time he got caught by Sophie and Colby while snooping into Sophie's daily meals. Out of desperation, he had lied, claiming that Kiran had a crush on Sophie. Within the Pollard family, Kiran's death was a tightly guarded secret, not to be shared with anyone. Even though Sophie and Colby were close, he wouldn't dare spill the beans without the old man's permission.

Sophie pressed on, "Why are you so sure Kiran didn't come to Devonport?"

"My brother is always swamped with work, busy overseas 24/7. There's no way he'd come to Devonport without a good reason. I used to handle all his business trips!" Angelo explained, puzzled. "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

Sophie then tossed a pair of Bluetooth headphones in front of Angelo. "Do you remember these?"

"These? They're just Bluetooth headphones, right?" Angelo responded.

"I had them picked up from the bushes outside the Regent Hotel," Sophie said.

"... Are these headphones expensive? Do you need a pair or something?" Angelo asked, baffled. Picking up something that's lost? That's quite frugal!

Sophie frowned, "Are you truly unaware, or are you pretending?"

"I really don't know!" Angelo insisted.

"Not even the incident where you saved Sandy at the Regent Hotel?" Sophie asked pointedly.

Angelo was stunned. "Me? Saving Sandy at the hotel? Sophie, stop kidding! I can't leap over walls or have my spirit leave my body! Just last night, I jumped from the second floor and knocked myself out. When I woke up, my head was killing me, and I was going to look for you in the living room, but you had already brought Sandy back!"

Listening to Angelo's words, Sophie's brows knitted together. Sensing her doubt, Angelo said earnestly, "Really! Cross my heart, I'm telling the truth!"

"It's not that I don't believe you. I just think that if the person at the Regent Hotel wasn't you, then it must have been Kiran," Sophie mused.

"That's even less likely!" Angelo argued. "The man's dead; he couldn't just crawl out of his grave, right?"

Seeing Angelo's sincere yet

bewildered expression, Sophie didn't press further. However, she said

sternly, "I'm not one to dig too deep, but if you're not against us, Angelo, I can overlook a lot. After all, who doesn't have secrets? But the current situation is different. You approached us with a questionable reason, and with the incident at the Regent Hotel yesterday, it's hard not to be suspicious."

Before, Angelo hadn't done anything out of the ordinary. Aside from eating, drinking, and inquiring about her dietary preferences, he hadn't engaged in any other activities.