Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 291

Chapter 291: Did she call the president crazy?

Whatever was going on with the ghost sounded a lot more interesting than the statement she was required to make. Phoebe’s right leg turned and her whole body pivoted in the direction of the ghost.

She did not make it far, not even a single step was taken.

“This way.” Shark nudged her gently to gain her attention.

Phoebe had no choice but to stop and follow the detective.

“Like I said earlier, in there waiting is the deputy police commissioner general, general Drusus and an aide from the Fog national presidential palace.” He spoke as they walked towards an office. “Pheebs, i know that you are normally blunt and out spoken but try to be polite in there. Do not antagonize the aide, i beg you.”

Phoebe was only partially listening and her eyes kept shifting back to the ghost, it was now following a female detective that was rushing into another conference room with a set of pictures in her hand.

Phoebe wondered what was in the pictures for the ghost seemed anxious.

“Do you think she has something to do with the case?” Phoebe communicated with the ancestor.

Both of them saw the ghost vanish into the conference room. It settled the matter for them both from a coincidence to a confirmation.

The Saxon spirit studied the ghost as well. “I still cannot sense anything sinister coming from her but go in there and deal with the Dowha assassins situation. I will follow the ghost and find out more.” It abandoned their group and vanished into a wall.

“Are you okay?” Collin asked.

Phoebe nodded, her eyes hid a storm of worries however. Dead children__ she hated such cases and avoided them as much as possible.

The faces of her sons were conjured up in her mind, prompting her to dig her nails in her palms in order to stay sane.

The door of the office opened and Shark pushed Phoebe inside. The people they had come to meet were waiting, two older men and a woman. Some Phoebe knew by face and others by reputation. All were sitting around a round table except for David who was standing and beckoned her to go to him.

Phoebe was pleasantly surprised to see him and she went towards him without hesitation. He pulled out a chair for her while making introductions.

After the greetings and introductions were made, they got down to business but it was not in the way Phoebe expected.

“For a young shaman, you have surely attracted the attention of powerful people. You must be something if Dohwa assassins were sent after you, what exactly did you do to the Verdemont’s?” The aide from the presidential palace smiled curiously.

She was a woman in her late forties pushing to the fifties. Phoebe had seen her on TV maybe once or twice.

“I did not do anything that is worth being assassinated for. What we have are disagreements, it comes with the job, unfortunately some powerful people do not want to use their brains to think.” Phoebe let out a jagged laugh, deep down she was a little nervous.

The people in the room with her were powerful after all and the deputy police commissioner general was lowering at her like they had a personal grudge.

David squeezed her shoulders to remind her that she had nothing to worry about. “Inhale deeply and exhale.” he whispered.

“Mr Mayfair.” The aide nodded once in recognition of Collin. “Your father just called me, he is worried about this little shaman here. You all have nothing to worry about, we are not going to eat her. In fact I have some good news.”

Her words caused their eyes to flicker over her, some quick and darting others bold and steady.

“Already? You already heard back from the Silver nation? How come I have heard nothing yet, this is a matter of national security.” General Drusus sounded a little displeased.

“National security?” Phoebe thought out loud, since when had this escalated to that level?

General Drusus nodded. “Yes it is! Assassins from the Silver nation sneaked into our country to harm a citizen. A lot of international laws were undermined by this act. What was done can end the cordial relationship of the two countries maybe even cause animosity which can lead to a war.”

“What!” The Mayfair’s and Shark said in unison.

Phoebe chuckled in disbelief. “A war! Have you lost your minds? Are you all nuts, war is not child’s play.”

Shark’s head darted to Phoebe first and he wished to silence her. This was the kind of outspokenness he had warned her about. You did not call the army general, presidential palace aide and deputy police commissioner general nuts!!! Hell, matters of war were related to the president so in a way, Phoebe had called the president nuts.

“Err.. Pheebs let’s not push it.” Collin tugged on his sister’s arm.

Phoebe slapped it away. “Big brother, are you hearing them? You also think it’s crazy, right? Who advised the president on this insanity?”

“Pheebs!” Collin called out in a raised voice.

“I think it’s crazy.” David agreed.

Collin glared at him, his eyes told David to keep quiet and stop overly indulging Phoebe.

“He does not speak for all of us but my sister does not mean it an insult, just an expression of shock.” Collin clarified.

“Yes, that one.” Shark emphasized loudly.

The aide raised her arms to calm everyone.

“It will not get to that folks so everyone calm down. We are not crazy or nuts, we just applied a lot of pressure to the Silver nation to make sure that the guilty party which is the Dowha family in this case suffer the consequences for their actions. It’s not necessarily because of you Phoebe, the Dohwa’s are getting too arrogant recently because the first lady of Silver nation is from their family. They made a move on our submarines in the West sea recently, this was a chance for us to retaliate.”

“And?” General Drusus interjected, he was very eager to hear how the Silver nation had decided to deal with the situation.

“Well they agreed to our terms which include arresting whom ever gave the assassins instructions to attack Phoebe Mayfair and that is Kim Dohwa who has been a pain in our ass for so long. Also we were given rights to imprison the assassins who are Silver nation citizens. Believe me, this is a humiliation for them.”

David snapped his fingers. “So that means that they will be tried by our courts along with Gloria and Peter Verdemont?”

“Yes. That’s why we need Phoebe Mayfair to make a statement on the matter. Leave nothing out for it could help in getting them a heavier sentence and prevent any extraction deals.”

“Phew! I have never felt more relieved.” Collin leaned back in the chair. “I wonder what they gave the Dowha family in exchange of them taking on such a risky deal. The Verdemonts are dead broke.”

“A kidney.” Came David’s shocking revelation. “Gloria Verdemont promised to have one of her kidneys extracted once the job was done.” He added.

“My God! She’s insane.” Phoebe’s hand moved to cover her open mouth.

“No she isn’t, a kidney on the black market can go up to around a four to five hundred thousand Fog dollars. It was good business.” The deputy chief exhaled loudly.

Collin frowned at David. “How did you know that?”

David’s face remained blank. “I just do.” He shrugged, his eyes bored into Collin’s.

“That’s it then, I’ll get going, we all just wanted to meet you and see where your head was. Since you are willing to press charges and testify then everything is good.” The aide raised to her feet and was escorted out by the deputy chief and general Drusus.

“Pheebs, let’s get started on that statement.” Shark escorted Phoebe to the victim interview room where Phoebe surrendered all the details and answered all the questions which were asked by four different detectives. She even took a polygraph test.

“I guess that’s it.” Shark closed the laptop and switched off the camera.

The Saxon spirit had been waiting in the corner for them to finish up. It rushed to Phoebe immediately with a very grim expression on the face.

“It’s worse that we imagined, we have to take the case.”