After a long while, he admitted by saying, “Yes, I did a great disservice to you.”

Deirdre opened her eyes in surprise. She kept quiet for a while before she said, “I was thinking about how you managed to convince the victim’s parents to lie alongside you. What did you give them that was so good that they would go against their conscience?”

She could still remember the married couple’s hatred and grumblings when she surrendered herself to the police. They were supposed to wish to execute the murderer badly.

Brendan looked at the woman’s distancing figure. He wanted to stretch out his hand to touch her, but he pulled back his hand.

“The reason is simple.” Brendan removed his jacket and lay with Deirdre. It felt as if that was the only way he could be closer to her. “I gave them enough money for them to live without any worries for the rest of their lives.”

“That’s all?”

Deirdre smiled, but he did not explain further.

The victim was already dead, after all. The victim’s parents