"I thanked her for saving me by choosing such a outstanding dress for me. But I saw a sudden wave of hesitation brushed past her eyes."
Sam was shocked. So was Adi. He thought that she was not going to tell what he was suspecting now, right?
"The strings of incidents happened earlier gave me a lot of negative vibes. So I asked her if she was okay or not, then all of a sudden, she burst out crying. She confessed to me that I was going to be framed, and she was forced to do so."
Mantisha's breathing quickened. She was not a lier, but she had to do it this time. So without pausing, she continued.
"Even after I asked her a lot of times, she still refused to tell me the name who asked her to do it. She just told that she needed money for her mother's treatment, so she was in a lot of pressure and that certain someone blackmailed her by offering a lot of money."
Sam left a breath he did not realise he was holding for so long. Adi's clenched hands slowly started to loose. He could sense that she was lying, but he could understand. It was her nature. She was Sylvia's daughter after all.
"So I asked her not to worry. I won't tell anybody else. She could relax and go down. Then I put away that dress and put on another one. I mean, the one I am wearing now. And I guess after something happened, a few ladies present there in the party, including Miss Smith, went there to choose spare clothes and by accident, she put that one on."
Sam was amused by her lie. He won't deny that he was a little moved too. He came from a poor family, so he knew about the struggles. He could not help but ask her again.
"And why should we believe you? How would we know that you are not lying?"
Mantisha bit her lips. She saw it coming. She knew that he already had guessed that she was lying.
"Because I don't have a reason to lie. Atleast for her. She could not possibly offer me a million with her condition, right?"
Sam almost smiled at her words. But he hold that back.
"The job was not done and everything became a mess. She would not get her two million now, right? Especially when she got caught? Then why would I have any interest to save her huhh?"
She ended her words with a question thrown back to Sam. Sam could not help but have a tint of amused smile on his lips.
"So you are telling us to trust you for your backflips of logic?"
"No." Mantisha sighed as she took out something and put it on the interrogation table.
"This is one of the cufflinks which was fallen from that waitress's shir in that room. She was too scared to notice that. After she left, I picked it up and thought to return it to her later, but things got chaotic and I forgot."
Sam looked at the cufflink as he frowned. Adi also narrowed his eyes.
"You can go and check her dress if you want. I am just here to tell that waitress might fall for the money for her situation, but at the end, I was saved from the embarrassment for her."
"Go and check it now" Adi commanded with a complicated tone, his eyes never left Mantisha's face, as if he was afraid if he looked away, he would miss a crucial detail.
"Ah yes yes." The middle aged officer ran from there to check on the waitress, Arthur also followed him.
Just a few seconds later, Sam also came out and went towards the way where Madam Brown, that man and the waitress were kept.
"Show me your hands." A burly looking lady officer asked that waitress.
She got confused. She could not understand why someone would ask her to show her hands.
"Huh?" She asked back in confusion.
That lady officer was getting impatient as she felt her supiriors was waiting to know the result behind her, so was a representative of a man they would not dare to offend.
"I said show me your hands." That lady officer repeated her words but instead of waiting for that waitress, she pulled up her hands and started fidgeting.
"Sir, one cufflink from her left sleeve is indeed missing."
"Crap!" The waitress cursed under her breath. She had long found out about the missing cufflink of hers, and she was sure about she had lost it somewhere around that room. She even went there later to find it but she didn't see it anymore.
She thought that they must find it from the room and with this evidence, her last bit of hope was gone. She closed her eyes in frustration.
Mantisha and Adi also came out from the rooms one by one, as the stood behind the cops. "Do you remember, where did you lost it?" While asking her the question, Sam eyed Mantisha once and saw her body went stiff with her hands clenched into fists. She was staring intensely towards the waitress.
"I..." The waitress thought there was no way to hide, so she confessed, "I think it fell somewhere near the room with spare clothes in it."
Mantisha's body relaxed, as she pushed the officers and went in front of her. She kneeled there and held her hands and smiled reassuringly while blinking her eyes twice.
"Hey, you don't need to worry. I told them about how you saved me, and..."
"Miss you can't say about your given testimony to the accused like this." The female cop grabbed her arm and tried to pull her up. That waitress looked at her in utter disbelief. What was she saying!
That lady cop pulled her up and dragged back to another room beside. But she ignored her warnings and continued her words to the waitress.
"Just tell them the truth that you already told me about the scheme without telling about the original culprit, and I wore another dress for that..."
After that her voice got shut with the bang of the door. Cindy bit the parts inside her chin as she thought of something. Then looked at the room where Lily was kept meaningfully.
Everybody looked back at the waitress, she was looking like someone who just saw a ghost.
This time, the lady officer asked her to go for a testimony. The waitress woke up from her trance, as she thought about the words Mantisha had just told. She was not a fool. She understood her hints, but she was not sure is she should trust her or not. What if she was here to get her revenge. After all it was she who was targetted and it seemed like she had long found out about her. In this position, if she lied, wouldn't her punishments be more severe than she thought?
But what if that girl was right and trying to save her? Should she take a chance?
She entered into the interrogation room as the questions which could cost her life started.
She sighed, then put on a light smile on her lips and looked back at the female cop, and started answering.
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Thank god it was not Lily or Macy.
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