Chapter 538: Another Perspective

Chapter 538: Chapter 538: Another Perspective

Mrs. Dunn crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair. Her arrogant posture made it seem as though she were in the comfort of her own home rather than a police interrogation room.

Evan Keller dropped a bombshell the moment he sat down. "Ms. Yorke has been successfully resuscitated and is out of danger.

"Her parents and husband have already hurried over to the hospital. As for the conflicts between you, we understand the situation completely. You could say your little scheme has utterly failed!"

Mrs. Dunn’s previously relaxed expression stiffened instantly upon hearing that Cameron had been saved. Her tone was filled with sheer disbelief. "Impossible!"

She wondered how the woman could possibly survive after being hacked so many times. If she remembered correctly, several slashes had been perilously close to the neck. If that bitch lived, could their subsequent plans still succeed? Was she really going to rot in prison for the rest of her life?

The more Mrs. Dunn thought about it, the uglier her expression became as all sorts of disastrous scenarios flashed through her mind one after another.

Seeing her look of disbelief, Evan’s previously heavy mood lifted slightly. "You don’t believe it? Or perhaps I should make a video call to the hospital so you can see for yourself?"

With that, he pulled out his phone, turned the screen toward her, and prepared to dial. Before he could make the call, he heard her panicked, breaking voice. "Don’t call! I don’t want to see!"

Hearing Mrs. Dunn’s hysterical protests, Evan slowly put his phone away. "You have two choices going forward. Either you fully cooperate with our interrogation and confess exactly what you’ve done from start to finish, or you keep your mouth shut, and we’ll go verify the things your son told us with your neighbors, as well as your friends and relatives back in your hometown.

"Which one it ends up being depends entirely on your level of cooperation."

At the mention of the second option, Mrs. Dunn’s already grim expression darkened further. Verifying things with the neighbors and relatives meant that all of her dirty deeds would be laid bare before outsiders.

The current neighbors weren’t too much of a concern. Even if it was humiliating, she could just move away, and the matter would eventually blow over. But if her gossipy relatives back home found out, it would be brought up repeatedly for the rest of her life, turning her into everyone’s favorite after-dinner gossip. People would bring it up from time to time, critique her entire life’s conduct over the past few decades, and then end it with a self-righteous, "I always knew she was that kind of person."

Her family would become the laughingstock of the clan.

If she never returned to her hometown again, not hearing it would mean not caring about it. However, Mrs. Dunn had been planning to retire back home with all that money, intending to make all those who had looked down on her green with envy. Therefore, she ruled out the second option with almost zero hesitation. The sheer possibility of total reputation ruin gave her the illusion of her heart stopping outright.

"Pick one. The choice is yours." Evan set his phone aside and rested his clasped hands on the table.

Looking dreadful, Mrs. Dunn stared blankly at Evan, trying to glean even a sliver of leeway from his expression. Unfortunately for her, there was none.

She remained silent for a long time before finally speaking. "I’ll talk. I’ll tell you everything."

The moment those words left her mouth, the breath she had been holding completely deflated, and her previously straight back immediately hunched over.

During Mrs. Dunn’s subsequent confession, Evan cross-referenced her statement with Mr. and Mrs. Yorke’s accounts. They were largely identical. The only differences lay in their subjective perspectives on certain events.

For example, in the eyes of the Yorkes, Mrs. Dunn had forcefully moved in shortly after the young couple got married and even coerced them into sleeping in separate beds—which was hardly how a mother-in-law should behave.

In Mrs. Dunn’s eyes, however, the son she had endured countless hardships to raise was now married and entirely wrapped up in his new wife, completely neglecting his old mother. Furthermore, her daughter-in-law came from a wealthy background and was an only child. As long as the Dunn family could get the woman firmly under their thumb, then once her parents died, all of the Yorke family’s money would belong to the Dunns!

All her ensuing behaviors were just an alternative form of obedience testing.

As for Danny failing to control his temper and striking Cameron, Mrs. Dunn viewed that as perfectly justified as well. It was only natural for a man to hit a woman. Couples might fight at one end of the bed, but they always made up at the other. Before her own husband died, hadn’t she lived her life the exact same way?

Besides, after a bit of friction between husband and wife, things would eventually smooth out anyway. Her son was such a thoughtful man; he even knew to avoid hitting her face to preserve her dignity!

After finding out Cameron was pregnant, Mrs. Dunn and her son instantly reached a consensus: they would placate her first and then squeeze as much out of her family’s pockets as possible! Mrs. Dunn felt she was the one who had been deeply wronged. For the sake of her grandchild, she had forced herself to act subservient day after day, swallowing her anger and keeping it bottled up.

Later on, when Cameron’s pregnancy progressed to the point where an abortion was no longer possible, the mother and son immediately reverted to their old ways.

What happened next aligned closely with what Mr. and Mrs. Yorke had recounted. Her attack this time was entirely premeditated. Upon learning that Cameron wanted a divorce, Mrs. Dunn feared that she would take her grandchild away and reclaim the house. Thus, she made up her mind to kill her.

As long as Cameron died, everything she left behind would belong to her son! Even those two old fogeys from the Yorke family would leave everything to her grandson—their maternal grandson—when they were dead and gone. When she thought about it that way, Mrs. Dunn figured it was an incredibly lucrative deal.

She bought gasoline in advance and hid it in the house. Then, she waited until neither her son nor her grandson was home, deciding the timing was right. She abruptly brought out the gasoline she had prepared and splashed it right into Cameron’s face. While the younger woman clutched her eyes and fell to the floor, Mrs. Dunn pulled out a kitchen knife she had readied beforehand and hacked at her, slash after slash.

If Evan and his team hadn’t suddenly shown up and restrained her, her next strike might very well have landed squarely on Cameron’s neck.

Mrs. Dunn had originally planned to clean up the scene, take a shower, and change into fresh clothes after killing the woman, only going to the police to report the incident afterward. However, before she could carry out the rest of her plan, the police had burst in and dragged her back to the station.

"What a pity. If you lot hadn’t suddenly shown up and stopped me, that bitch wouldn’t have had the slightest chance of surviving!" Mrs. Dunn slammed her hand on the table indignantly.

Listening to her resentment-laced tone, Evan tapped the table and said sternly, "You should be thankful we showed up so you didn’t end up making a fatal, irreversible mistake!"

Mrs. Dunn wrinkled her nose in defiance. This wasn’t the ending she wanted at all.

Evan couldn’t care less about what she was thinking. Now that they had her confession and the video as corroborating evidence, Mrs. Dunn definitely wouldn’t be able to squirm her way out of this!

The most crucial question now was what her sentence would be.