PEACE

CHAPTER 7: THE SUSPICION AND HER

The sun was almost down when the two arrived at their office, Irene went in to notice that her friend, Jennie wasn't there sitting on her usual spot. "Where did she go?" She asked to Wendy who was standing on her side knowing that she would abruptly noticed the younger's absence. 

"Jennie had been staying in out of the office for days, she's been so focused to Jackson's death, we also got to talk about this Thai woman he mentioned when you two met him at their company." The Thai, the prosecutor almost forgot about her existence. "She also got some death threats that even her family in Thailand was once blackmailed by someone, she was afraid to mention that person's name but she clarified some things about Soul's death."

Irene realized that life was truly short enough for her to know everything that is happening to her ex's life, she did not even knew that she got a foreign friend. "Why? What's with her connection?"

"She did not said that she was connected to the death of Soul and Sunmi, she just confessed that Soul was actually planning something that includes someone from her past, she was eager to do a lot of things related to it but it ended up failing when the person's partner had found out about it, she said that Soul used to got death threats almost everyday, to the point that she had decided to cut all of her contacts with her just to save herself but it surprised her to find Sunmi's death before Soul." Things were starting to get interesting when the officer motioned the prosecutor to follow her to her office, Son showed various of evidences she got from a memory card that the Thai national had left to her.

"It turned out, that Soul had been warned since then to stop the things she was planning, back to December last year, just right before New Year's eve, Sunmi accidentally snuck into one of the meeting place of the suspects, where she also found Soul getting jabbed and tortured as what she had described to the Thai." Wendy showed a picture of Soul who was kneeling wet with a group of men surrounding her, the prosecutor gasped and stopped herself from having an emotional breakdown to what she had just saw, the officer continued. "These series of pictures she had taken was also the reason why she was killed, after she safely left their hideout, there's someone who followed her until she got back to the Wang's Company, she admitted it to the Thai that she purposely went there after going to that place in hopes to lose them but instead, just days before she got killed, she sneakily put it in one of Lisa's cafeteria uniform and since then, they had been coming back and forth for her."

"Lisa? Lalisa?" Irene asked as she looked up the officer who also gazed back towards her, the prosecutor put both of her hands to her waist as she tried to remember on where did she heard that name. 

"Lalisa Manoban. Why?" Wendy asked her with her eyes looking at her in suspicion. "Are you sure you really don't know something about your ex's death? How come did you know Lisa's name even though I hadn't been introduced her to you." Her suspicions were already getting to her bones but Irene also needed to be professional enough to handle this type of job she had knowing that everyone who knew something about the certain victim would also be considered as a suspect which she was trying to avoid now that even her friend found her questionable. "Unnie, I'm not trying to press you, I'm sorry." She said silently when she noticed the older became silent.

The older woman shook her head and answered. "You don't have to, it's just I've met her in a small resto I've went a few days back, it was the time I've decided to go to Soul's columbarium when I saw their shop and had decided to eat something in there. She was the one who served the food for me and even had decided to introduce herself."

"She did not talk about you at all." Wendy said as she offered the woman a seat on her visitor's lounge. "Anyways, Sunmi's brother went here yesterday for a follow up, as much as we wanted to give him some overviews to the things that had been happening to her sister's case, we can't, it could only be you, the one who can clarify things to him."