He knew that Ella Adams wouldn't mind, but deep in his heart, he felt guilty.
He had always been making choices between his older sister and his lover, but in the end, he felt that he had wronged both himself and Ella Adams.
He knew what such a surrender meant. Faced with such a massive scale of commercial crime, perhaps the sentence would be ten, or even twenty years if he surrendered now.
It was all the time he had lived till now... to spend it in such a bleak prison without freedom; his life would plummet to rock bottom, and he was not fearless.
However, he had no other choice.
He couldn't miss such an excellent opportunity and couldn't let his sister face any more danger. After all, his parents had left, and Isabel Smith was the only close relative he had left in this world.
As the process went on, Elijah Smith became more and more calm, even becoming a bit unruffled, and when he finally confessed everything, the interrogation room fell utterly silent.