Love After Marriage: Mr. Lancaster's Hidden Wife

Chapter 647 Dominic Conrad Committed Suicide

The ringtone was crisp, but at that moment, Yvonne somehow felt a little depressed and she had a bad feeling.

But she did not think too much as she took out her cell phone and took a glance before answering the call, "Officer Turner."

"Miss Smith, something happened and I hope you’re mentally prepared," the person on the other end of the phone said.

Yvonne frowned. "Mentally prepared?"

"Yes," Officer Turner responded.

Yvonne took a deep breath, "I'm ready. Go ahead."

"Okay, I'll say it then. Well, your father, Dominic Conrad, is dead," Officer Turner said. © NôvelDrama.Org - All rights reserved.

Yvonne's mind started buzzing, and for a long time, she did not respond.

It took her a while before she managed to find her voice. "What did you say? He’s dead?"

"Yes. Please come to the police station. I'll tell you the details when you get here," Officer Turner replied.

Yvonne bit her lower lip. "Okay, I'll come over right away."

After she hung up, she put down the phone and she trembled slightly.

When Henry saw her like that, he felt sorry and held her in his arms. "What's the matter?"

She did not put the call on speaker earlier, so he did not hear it. He only heard her say that someone died.

"I'm fine." Yvonne pulled away from his arms and shook her head. "The call earlier was from Officer Turner. He told me that Dominic is dead."

"What?" Henry was also surprised when he heard that.

Dominic Conrad was dead?

"Really?" Henry asked.

Yvonne took a breath and exhaled, "Officer Turner wouldn't lie. Since he said that, it must be true. He asked me to go to the police station first and he’ll tell me the details."

"Let's go. I'll take you there." Henry took out the car key.

He heard her say that she would go over immediately.

Yvonne hummed and followed him to the parking lot.

An hour later, they arrived at the police station.

Officer Turner had been waiting for them. When he saw them coming, he got up to greet them.

Yvonne asked immediately, "Officer Turner, what happened exactly? How did he die?"

She knew that Dominic had cancer and would not live long, but it was absolutely impossible for him to die so soon.

Officer Turner sighed with sorrow, "Well, he committed suicide."

"Suicide?" Henry narrowed his eyes. "How did he commit suicide in prison?"

It would be impossible to have any murder weapon in prison and there were prison guards watching at all times, so there was no chance of suicide at all.

It would also be impossible to hit himself against a wall and die just like that. Things like that only happened on TV.

In reality, one wouldn’t get injured so easily just by hitting themselves against the wall. So hitting a wall would not cause death either. 1

Officer Turner waved his hand and motioned for them to sit down.

After they sat down, he said, "There is indeed nothing i n the prison that would allow him to commit suicide, but none of us would've known that he would make a weapon himself. He sharpened the other end of his toothbrush, inserted it into his throat, and bled to death."

The corner of Henry's mouth twitched.

He could not believe that was how Dominic committed suicide!

"Toothbrushes aren't easy to sharpen, so it's impossible to do that in a short period of time!" Yvonne looked at Officer Turner.

Officer Turner nodded. "Yes, it's impossible to do it in a short period of time, but what if he had a few days? After Dominic’s death, I specifically went to the prison to have a look. From what I gathered, Dominic would spend half an hour in the toilet every day. I'm guessing that maybe he would sharpen his toothbrush during that half an hour."

Yvonne clenched her hands. "He spent half an hour in the toilet every day. It was obviously a problem. Why didn’t any of you notice it?"

Officer Turner smiled bitterly. "Dominic suffered from cancer, so he’d feel sick every day. When he got sick, his whole body would hurt. Miss Smith, you know that people in prison aren't good people. When he got sick i n the prison for the first time, others thought he was noisy and they sent him away to the toilet."

Yvonne was quiet.

Officer Turner continued, "Perhaps it was when he was sent away to the toilet for the first time that he found out that the toothbrush could be sharpened. Then every time he felt sick, he would take the initiative to go to the toilet. It would prevent others from bullying him in prison and nobody would know what he was doing. He was a very smart person indeed."

"So, Dominic had suicidal thoughts from the beginning?" Henry asked.

Officer Turner rubbed the middle of his eyebrows. " Probably. As for the reason, I thought of two reasons."

"What two reasons?" Yvonne asked.

"The first reason is that the cancer was just too painful and there was no treatment available. The pain he experienced every day tortured him to the point of mental breakdown. He was also getting older, so he wouldn’t be able to survive. As for the second reason, it was because of Jacqueline Conrad. She was his daughter and she was sentenced to death. When his daughter died, he would feel depressed as a father, and he would have suicidal thoughts."

Every time Officer Turner explained a reason, he would put up a finger.

As Yvonne looked at the two fingers he was holding u p, she laughed sarcastically, "Maybe Officer Turner is right, he really loves Jacqueline."

Henry squeezed her hand. "You have my love."

"Get lost!" Yvonne rolled her eyes at him.

At this moment, a young police officer suddenly knocked on the door and said while standing by the door, "Officer Turner, when I was sorting Dominic Conrad's belongings at the prison, I found a letter."

"A letter?" Officer Turner was surprised. "Who is it for?"

"It’s for a woman named Margaret Conrad, but I just checked and this person doesn't exist in the system," the young police officer said while staring at the

recipient on the envelope.

Yvonne stood up all of a sudden. "It's me."

"Huh?" Officer Turner looked at her.

Yvonne bit her lips. "I'm Margaret Conrad."

Henry was confused. "When did you change your name again?"

"It was the name Dominic Conrad gave me before I was born. He told me the last time I met him," Yvonne replied.

"I see." Officer Turner nodded, took the letter from the officer, and then passed it to Yvonne. "Since this letter is for Miss Smith, then she should hold it. But Miss Smith. I hope you'll open the letter on the spot.

Because this was from the prison, the police station also needs to know the content."

"Okay." Yvonne agreed.

She then opened the envelope under the gaze of the two officers. She took out the paper from the inside and started reading it.

After reading it, she lowered her eyelids and her hand that was holding the paper began to tremble again. She sobbed softly.

When Henry saw this, he quickly took the letter from her hand. Officer Turner stood behind him and read it with him.

It was a letter of confession written by Dominic to

Yvonne.

The content of the letter was basically about Dominic realizing that he had done something wrong and felt sorry towards Yvonne and her mother, so he decided t o go meet Yvonne’s mother in hopes that Yvonne's mother would forgive him.

"It turns out that we got it all wrong. Dominic didn’t commit suicide because of illness, or because of Jacqueline, but because of Miss Smith's mother," Officer Turner said with sorrow after reading the letter.

Yvonne sneered, "That’s extremely ridiculous. When m y mother was still alive, he didn't beg for my mother's forgiveness. He even killed my mother with the mistress. Now that he had gotten older, he wanted to g o down to seek my mother for forgiveness. It’s ridiculous."

Henry could understand how she felt, so he did not say anything to comfort her either. He just patted her hand so that she would not get too agitated. Her health condition was not too good after all.

"Can you give this letter to me, Miss Smith? I need to register this," Officer Turner asked.

Yvonne agreed without hesitation.

Officer Turner took the letter and went out.

Henry looked at Yvonne. "What do you want to do with Dominic's body?"