After divorce I am a billionaire
Chapter 474 Interrogation in the hall

It was an uneventful night.

For Callahan Residence, it was even more sleepless.

Rebecca ran away to her mother Caitlin's relatives' house and her cell phone was turned off and disconnected.

After Lyra and the others left, Shane instructed his bodyguard to replace Rebecca as soon as possible.

Five hours later in the early morning, Rebecca was carried back from a relative's house by the bodyguard and thrown straight into the hall.

"Ouch! Be gentle. You want to drop me to death?"

She rubbed her sore bottom and accused the bodyguard angrily.

The bodyguard bowed politely towards her, said nothing, turned around and left the hall.

There was a loud bang and the door to the hall was heavily shut, making Rebecca shudder.

In the darkness, the hall flickered with candlelight and occasionally a few gusts of gusty wind blew over. Rebecca gulped with a guilty conscience and stood up from the floor.

"Kneel down."

Behind her, she could a man's cold and piercing command.

At the sound of this voice, Rebecca's body shivered with fear, which was subconscious.

She turned around woodenly and saw Shane standing in front of the Callahan family's ancestral photos. His face looked grim and appalling, and he was holding an even more appalling cane.

The cane looked smooth but tough. Obviously it was taken out, soaked in water deliberately and specially prepared for her.

She was scared to death and walked up stiffly. Then she bent her knees, knelt on the futon and laughed dryly.

"Shane, this is too scary. What did I do wrong? You even have the cane ready."

Shane tightly pursed his lips. His gloomy face looked like a ghost, which was fierce and cold.

"Shane, calm down. My skin is delicate and can't afford the cane. You've never beaten me before, so take it easy."

She bit her lip in grievance and pretended to be pitiful.

Shane walked up to her and looked down at her. He opened his mouth and asked her coldly as if to interrogate a prisoner.

"I ask you a question and you answer me. If you dare to lie, I'll beat you."

Rebecca paled and shook his head, "I dare not. Shane, feel free to ask. I absolutely do not lie."

"Tonight, why did you go out and hide?"

She paused, remembered Lyra's words of advice during the day, and played dumb.

"I didn't go out to hide. Why would you think that? It was Rose, from my aunt's house, who called me over to visit her. I usually do that."

"I didn't plan to come back tonight. Who knew you'd send someone to arrest me. I've often stayed over at my aunt's house before. Why scare me with a cane?"

Shane's eyes narrowed slightly. He observed her expression and continued to ask, "Do you have Lyra's earrings?"

Rebecca's mind boggled at the question, reminding herself over and over again to answer as Lyra had taught her.

Otherwise, tonight, she was afraid it would be difficult to pass the test.

Thinking about it, she looked up with an innocent look. And she pretended to be confused, "Yes, they're here with me. What's wrong with that?"

Shane's eyebrows tightened and his eyes burned with anger as he immediately swung the cane at her.

"Hey hey Shane! Calm down. This hurts, right? Don't do it!"

Rebecca hastily blocked it with her arms. While he was hesitating, she lunged towards him, decisively hugged his thighs and wailed and sobbed

"You know me. I usually behave well. What did I do wrong? You have to let me know, right?"

The watery glow in her pupils resulted from being scared by Shane's gesture.

Shane withdrew the raised cane and continued in a cold voice, "Rebecca, you have totally forgotten our family's instruction. You actually learned how to steal. Which of your hands took it?" Rebecca hugged his leg tighter and looked up at him suspiciously.

"What do you mean by stealing? You suspect I stole the earrings? How can that be!? I'm titled the Callahan family daughter. I have seen many rare and luxury jewelry. How could I steal! And steal Lyra's. even ... you beat me to death, there is no way I would do that."

Shane's brows knitted tighter.

He actually did not believe it as well. His own sister had followed him for so many years, and he knew very well her temperament.

Because of this, he got her to the ancestral hall for interrogation, rather than directly tied her here to beat her.

He ordered in a deep voice, "What is going on? Tell us exactly what happened."

Rebecca was relieved and hurriedly and honestly stated to him the falsehoods she had practiced so many times beforehand at her aunt's house.

"At the tea party, Lyra chatted with me and said she hasn't seen me for a long time. She missed me. Oh yes! She also asked about Melissa's recent health condition. I didn't know after all, so I didn't say much. Later on, we had a nice chat and Lyra said she wanted to give me a small gift, so she gave me the earrings, which are all still in my bag."

She was thrown into the hall by the bodyguard, and her bag fell to the ground at the corner of the pillar.

She got up tentatively and glanced carefully at Shane's expression. Seeing that he had no angry emotions, she then moved over to the corner of the pillar and picked up the designer bag on the ground. She took out a pair of expensive and exquisite sapphire earrings from inside, hand them to Shane in a disciplined manner, and then continue to explain.

"Shane, when I came back from the tea party, I meant to leave such valuable earrings at home, but when I got a call from Rose, I forgot to put them on the dresser and took them with me."

She took her phone out of her bag and showed the call log to Shane.

With the vivid explanation, Shane's face looked less angry.

Rebecca feigned curiosity and asked, "Why did you just say that I stole Lyra's earrings? Did something happen?"

Shane narrowed his eyes coldly, "Lyra claimed the earrings were stolen. She joined with Chad White to search our house and took Melissa away."

Rebecca was silently relieved and asked, "How could they take Melissa? Isn't this trespassing? And why did Lyra say the earrings were stolen when she gave them to me herself?" Shane stopped explaining and looked coldly at his simple and naive sister.

"Stay away from Lyra in the future. Don't be used by her again. You're not young anymore. From now on you can't trust all the words of others except your family."

"Shane, I got it." She replied softly and looked timidly at the cane in his hand, "Shane, the thing in your hand, can you put it back? It scares ..."

Shane rubbed her head, "Okay, it's getting late. Go back and rest."

Rebecca nodded in a good-natured manner, turned her head and left the hall.

Until she walked out of the hall, her calves were still shaking.

She took a long breath and patted her heart to soothe her frightened heart.

She just hoped that after Lyra took Melissa, Melissa would never come back. She didn't want to see Melissa in the Callahan family at all!