Confession 2

The Confession of Jasper Whitlock in the Murder of Esme Cullen:

I was in the Rose Garden this afternoon with Esme Cullen, because she was showing me around the vineyard. I probably could have picked up the corkscrew when she dropped it, but I didn’t. My mind was elsewhere.

I am not who I appear to be, and I’m not the only one. My aunt, Bella Swan, is not the best friend to Esme that she wants us to believe.

I am not a real estate developer, I am a junior executive trainee at a brokerage firm in Manhattan. I came to see Esme to buy this vineyard inexpensively. While helping Edward with college research, Bella discovered clues to millions of dollars in gold buried somewhere on this property. She kept this secret even from me.

At first we planned to buy Volturi Vineyards outright, I was to buy the property and sell it to Bella at a profit. Unfortunately, Esme’s asking price was more than I could afford, and I couldn’t raise the money.

Unable to persuade Esme to lower her price, Bella decided to take our plan to the next level. She is desperate to escape her life here in Forks, and the treasure buried here would have provided her with the financial freedom to pursue her dreams.

While I was out touring the grounds with Esme, Bella stole some sleeping pills from Esme’s medicine cabinet and slipped them to me while I was making phone calls in my car.

I crushed the sleeping pills into Esme’s wine while we were wine tasting in the vault just before she was killed. Bella had forged a suicide note for Esme with instructions that she should inherit Volturi Vineyards. Bella was trying to get the place for free, and cut me out of the picture!

Had I known that Bella was trying to give me the shaft, I would never have gone along with her delusional plan. I admit that I tried to kill Esme, but someone else got to her first. I definitely did not stab her in the neck with a corkscrew.