Chapter 597

Evelyn's eyes lit up slightly.

She suppressed the excitement in her heart and focused on Nicole, waiting for her answer.

Nicole suddenly smiled, lightly tapping her own chest with a finger.

"Right here."

Evelyn was stunned.

She realized she had been tricked and immediately glared at Nicole in anger.

"We had a deal! If you lost, you'd tell me the truth!"

"Who made a deal with you?" Nicole's smile deepened. "Besides, who says I lost?"

As soon as the words left her mouth, the interrogation room door was knocked.

Grace's voice came from outside.

"Evelyn, open the door."

Evelyn immediately stood up and walked to the door.

She opened it to find Grace standing outside with a grave expression.

Grace looked at Evelyn and spoke directly.

"Nicole's lawyer is here. They've processed her bail."

Evelyn frowned.

"She can get bail in this situation? Isn't the evidence solid?"

Grace took a deep breath and produced the proof documents provided by the lawyer.

When the Special Operations Division arrested Nicole, they identified her as "Fox," the single point of contact for Susan.

Susan had recorded the time and details of each call.

Those timestamps matched calls made by Nicole at the same time.

Coupled with Susan's direct identification of Nicole as Fox, the evidence chain seemed complete.

But now, the opposing lawyer provided proof that Nicole was not on those calls.

For example, during several of Susan's calls with Fox, Nicole was shopping at a mall.

Surveillance footage showed she was not on the phone with anyone.

This evidence indicated...

Nicole stood up calmly and looked at Evelyn.

"Grace, I told you. I'm not that murderer Fox. You've wronged me."

She spread her hands in a gesture of indifference.

Evelyn clenched her fists.

"If you're not, then who is?"

"Who knows?" Nicole smiled meaningfully. "Maybe it's me. Maybe it's her. Or maybe it's you? I have an alibi. Can I go now?"

Her attitude was arrogant and unrestrained.

Evelyn didn't speak.

Grace stepped forward and unlocked Nicole's handcuffs.

Nicole flexed her wrist and looked at Grace with a cold laugh.

"I'll sue you for wrongful arrest. You can expect disciplinary action."

Grace's expression remained unchanged.

"I'll take responsibility for my actions."

Nicole tutted twice, then suddenly smiled.

"You seem pretty confident?"

Grace remained silent.

Nicole turned back to Evelyn.

"Rabbit, did you think I'd expose myself so easily? You're so naive. You can't win against me! In this battlefield of Aldoria, the final victor will be me!"

"Once the Castillo family's DNA test results come out tomorrow, you'll be utterly defeated. And your father's poison..."

Nicole tilted her head slightly, her smile suddenly turning sinister.

"Originally, if you had lost and begged me, I might have given you the antidote. But since you've done this... well, I'll just wait and watch you cry."

As she spoke the last sentence, her expression darkened abruptly, her eyes ruthless and cruel.

Evelyn seemed infuriated, her face shifting through various emotions.

Seeing this, Nicole arrogantly lifted her chin, turned, and walked out.

After the door closed, the anger instantly vanished from Grace and Evelyn's faces.

Grace looked at Evelyn.

"I didn't expect she really isn't Fox."

Evelyn nodded.

She had always had an intuition.

Fox's modus operandi was covert and insidious.

Fox never confronted others directly, only using people as pawns.

But Nicole acted domineeringly and arrogantly.

Especially at the Castillo family engagement banquet, that undisguised triumphant posture made Evelyn feel Fox wouldn't be so impatient.

They couldn't investigate Nicole's whereabouts every minute.

So Evelyn deliberately used Susan's testimony to pin Nicole as Fox.

For Nicole to get out, she had to prove she wasn't Fox.

If she really was Fox, she'd be stuck here.

If she wasn't, then Fox was someone else. It was also a test.

The result confirmed her intuition.

Nicole indeed was not Fox.

But if Nicole wasn't Fox, why did she impersonate Fox's identity?

And Susan seemed convinced Fox was Nicole...

Were Fox and Nicole working together?

Or was Fox Nicole's superior?

It didn't seem like it.

Fox, like herself, had received the mission to marry into the Castillo family.

If Nicole wasn't Fox, then Fox would definitely try to marry Anthony Castillo.

But so far, only Nicole was making the effort.

Evelyn thought for a moment but couldn't figure it out.

She stopped trying and looked at Grace.

"Will this cause trouble for you?"

Grace shook her head.

"Don't worry. My father will make a call. It'll be fine."

Evelyn breathed a sigh of relief.

Grace's parents were both forensic pathologists.

Her childhood goal was also to become one.

But Evelyn knew the Lorenz family background wasn't simple.

Grace's grandfather seemed to carry significant weight.

That's why she had asked Grace for help.

Just as Evelyn thought this, Grace suddenly looked at her with a serious expression.

"Evelyn, I really found information about the Sterling Family in the archives."

Evelyn's pupils contracted sharply.

"What did you find?"