Chapter 758

Shannon arranged for an express delivery the next morning to send the two living souls to Mitchell. She also reported Macey's story about the parallel world. This matter was too complex and far-reaching for her to handle alone, so she decided to hand it over to the safety agency for further investigation. The police contacted her with preliminary findings about last night's case. "Brett lived nearby, and he's a local. He's been unemployed for a while and lived off his wife, but even with that, he constantly abused her." According to Brett's confession, he'd accidentally beaten his wife to death. For fear of imprisonment, he'd dismembered her body, disposed of it in the sewer over time, and told others she'd simply run away. Everyone in the neighborhood knew he was abusive, so they hadn't questioned it when hearing she'd left. They figured she must have had enough of his beatings. Plus, his wife was a migrant worker, so no one in the workplace bothered to look into her disappearan