Chapter 1458 - 1398: Deep Love Is Short-Lived

The ringing of the phone pierced the silence; it was Adrian Desmond calling.

"Hello..."

Adrian was startled by Sienna Johnson’s voice, "What’s wrong with you?"

Just by listening, Adrian could detect Sienna’s anomaly. She was unhappy, even...sad.

When she left in the morning, she was still cheerful. Why was she sad now?

"Adrian, did Tessa Harrington commit suicide?" Sienna spoke gravely.

"Suicide?" Adrian was equally surprised.

Tessa was exceptionally lively, optimistic, always laughing as if she had no worries. A person like that suddenly committing suicide surprised even Adrian.

"Yes, she committed suicide."

"Is the news confirmed?"

"She is at the funeral home now."

"..."

"Adrian, help me investigate what exactly is going on? I always feel that someone with Tessa’s personality wouldn’t commit suicide." Since hearing the news of Tessa’s suicide, this question has been lingering in Sienna’s mind.

Comparing Tessa’s personality, Sienna tends more towards foul play than suicide.

"Uh, okay. Where are you now?"

"I’m on the way to Phoenix Hill Funeral Home."

Adrian was currently standing at the door of Paige Desmond’s Porcelain Shop; he was originally there to pick up her and her daughter to go home.

"Come home early."

"Okay."

...

Phoenix Hill Funeral Home,

In early spring, the chill was biting, adding to the desolation; it was particularly silent around, with the faint sound of crying.

Sally said, "Madam, why don’t you wait here, and I’ll go see where ’she’ is?"

"I’ll give James Winslow a call."

Sienna Johnson called James Winslow. After a minute, James Winslow personally came out to greet them.

"President Johnson."

James Winslow was dressed thinly, just wearing a V-neck sweater, and a pair of men’s slippers on his feet, seemingly rushing over upon getting the news.

"President Johnson, the mortician is doing Tessa’s makeup, let me take you to the mourning hall." James Winslow said with a heavy expression.

"What exactly happened?"

James Winslow clenched his fist at his side, took a deep breath, steadied his internal anger, and said, "Tessa’s fiancé Neil fell in love with someone else, unable to cope with the blow, Tessa jumped to her death."

"Even if the fiancé fell for someone else, Tessa wouldn’t just commit suicide?"

"I don’t know the specifics either. I’ve already helped Tessa’s parents call the police; everything will have to wait for the police investigation results."

"Since it’s not known whether it’s suicide or murder, why wasn’t Tessa... isn’t it necessary for the Criminal Investigation team to... check before burial?"

Sienna couldn’t bring herself to refer to Tessa as a corpse.

"Tessa’s parents didn’t allow the forensic doctor to... perform an autopsy."

Sienna was confused, "Do they want Tessa to die confused and unclear?"

James Winslow said, "There are no wounds on Tessa’s body, she posted a will around 3:30 am, so the Harringtons believe their daughter committed suicide. They were unwilling to let their daughter be dissected after death, so they directly brought her to the funeral home."

The ambulance arrived downstairs in the community, seeing that Tessa had already been dead for a while, drove straight back.

"At that time, everyone was asleep. If someone had discovered, maybe..."

Life doesn’t have "maybe," the result is Tessa died, in the cold night.

"Mom, is Tessa really dead?"

Sienna Johnson touched her daughter’s head, not answering.

Sienna embraced her daughter and went to the mourning hall. As they entered, Tessa had just finished her makeup and changed clothes, a pink pleated dress, serene expression, lying among a heap of roses, as if asleep.

Tessa’s parents wailed, their cries were so anguishing that they didn’t notice anyone coming in.

James Winslow said, "Mrs. Harrington fainted from crying once already, woke up and continued crying."

"I understand their feelings."

Sienna looked at Tessa, unable to comprehend what would make her abandon her loving parents and choose to take her own life.

Beside the elderly couple was a young man, supporting Mrs. Harrington, he looked at Sienna and said, "Hello, you must be Tessa’s boss?"

"That’s right, I’m Sienna Johnson."

"I’m Conrad Harrington, Tessa’s cousin."

Mr. Harrington greeted Sienna briefly and paid no attention to anyone else, while Mrs. Harrington kept crying looking at her daughter, her voice hoarse from crying.

"Condolences and peace," these four words Sienna couldn’t utter.

The child was gone; the elderly couple’s future life was bleak and lifeless.

The police later came; Mrs. Harrington thought they were going to take Tessa for a post-mortem, excitedly shouting at the police, "You leave, don’t allow my daughter to be dissected...my daughter loved beauty the most, you cannot cut her anymore."

The police said, "We’ve come to inform you that Miss Harrington committed suicide. There is video taken of her jumping off the building."

"Wah..." Mrs. Harrington cried out loud.

Actually, Sienna Johnson wished for a post-mortem for Tessa; the forensic doctor might see hidden information, infer things invisible to the human eye.

"Where did the video come from?" Sienna asked.

The policeman coughed and said, "A young man secretly filmed beauties on the opposite building, incidentally capturing Tessa’s suicide."

Sienna furiously questioned, "He saw her jumping, why didn’t he call an ambulance earlier? If Tessa had been sent to the hospital early, maybe she wouldn’t have died."

Another policeman said, "The camera was filming automatically, the young man set it up and went to sleep. Later, when checking, he discovered it and reported it, handing the video over to us."

The young man excitedly wanted to see the pretty girl opposite changing clothes, ended up witnessing a person jumping off and being scared.

Sienna Johnson’s phone rang, it was Adrian calling, Adrian told Sienna, "Tessa committed suicide."

"How could she commit suicide?" Sienna muttered to herself.

"However, I discovered something else. A minute before Tessa’s suicide, Neil spoke to her on the phone, don’t know if Neil provoked her in the call, leading to Tessa’s suicide."

"Can you track the conversation content?"

"I can. I’ve asked Aaron to check it; there should be news soon."

"I’m at the funeral home now, assisting the Harringtons with the funeral. You should come over and take Curly back. It’s not good for a child to stay in such a place."

"I’m already on the way."

"Okay."

Sienna Johnson opened her phone’s WhatsApp, and saw the last message Tessa sent.

...

Neil, you’re too cruel, you’re too heartless.

The day after tomorrow is our wedding, yet you want to cancel it, you didn’t even give me a buffer.

In this life, you owe me a romance and a promised future.

I’m leaving, taking our love with me.

If there’s a next life, I hope to not be let down again, not played, not abandoned. I hope...never to love you again.