"Why are you looking around?," Leo stopped in his tracks when he realized that Heaven halted and was a few steps behind him. He turned back to her and watched her look around the car park. Then he heard her mumble,"Huh? Where is he? He should be here." He walked back to her and just then, there was a fast and loud swish sound behind him. He froze. She froze... They stared at each other wide-eyed and watched the car that had just narrowly missed hitting him speed away. Wait... What just happened? Did he just almost get hit? "Are you alright?," Heaven rushed to him but he stared back with that blank look. Few armed men dressed in black rushed out from every corner of the park and that was when the pandemonium started. The guests were naturally frightened by the sudden appearance of so many masked men. The only person that didn't fret was Heaven cause she recognized these men to be some of her grandfather's secret guards. "Boss," They rushed to Leo and surrounded him. "Are you alr
"Uhmm boss... I don't know who she is," Jake smiled nervously and scratched his hair. Leo looked at him in disbelief. So... What's the info all about then? "You don't know who she is?," He repeated and Jake nodded. "Get out of my office." Jake paused. His brain couldn't quite process that sentence at that moment. Huh? What did the boss say? "Sir..." "Out of my office," Leo didn't even bat an eyelid at his lost expression. "But boss, you promised me a reward if I were to find out the identity of the new Ceo." "Yes, I did that," Jake heaved a sigh of relief when Leo agreed. But his relief was quite short-lived because the latter soon said,"But I remember promising you a reward for two things. Find out the identity of the new Ceo. Not the gender and I also asked you to give me the details about the whereabouts of the former Ceo." Jake blinked. "Stop doing that. It suits pretty ladies rather than your stuffy face." 'Boss, why are you being so cruel!?,' but he didn't dare to voice
Heaven couldn't reply. Her shoulders shook terribly as she wept. Leo on the other hand found that he couldn't move from that spot... No... This must be just a nightmare. A terrible dream. Nothing more. That certainly isn't James in the bed with a bloodied, unrecognizable face. He couldn't hear anything. He couldn't see anything like he was in a trance. In the background, he heard a few people talking. Someone said,"Young miss, I have called the ambulance. They will be here soon." "Young miss, I already informed the cops about what happened. They are on their way." Hearing the last statement, Leo's body swayed. He fell on his knees. His head bent low. Once again... He'd lost another. Mom died this way. She was assassinated in their house, in their small bedroom. It was a horrible sight for a six years old boy to witness then. He couldn't even understand why his father kept on insisting that they change location until he'd come back from school one day, walked into the slum and me
Heaven got lost in staring at the contact card. So he's a detective from the city police station. Why then did he say he isn't one of the cops then? Aren't they the same? A low shuffle sound on the bed and a groan of pain caused Heaven to turn her attention to the bed. "Mom!," She sounded relieved. "You are finally awake." Victoria didn't respond. She was just trying to sit up. But that stopped when she caught sight of the occupant of the bed beside hers. Her eyes widened with anger and her face turned red as she yelled,"What's this murderer doing in this room!? Get him away from me! I don't want to see his disgusting face that deserves to rot in hell!" The hand that had wanted to touch the door knob stopped and detective Tom turned around. Oh! So he is still in the room? "Mom... What are you saying? Please calm down," She struggled to hold Victoria back. The latter was going bonkers! "Why did you let him in!? I'm gonna kill this b*stard! I swear with the last drop of bl
"Aunt," He greeted and turned to Heaven. He rushed to her and helped her up. "What's wrong with you? Are you alright?" The remaining officers exchanged a look of surprise. They have never seen their boss act this way before. Even though he is much younger than most of them, he was quickly promoted to the post of D.C.O (Divisional Crime Officer.) His usually stoic and expressionless face had quickly won him fame in the station. They weren't even aware that he had family members because as far as they know, he is an orphan or was supposed to be. "Officer Joe, it's great that you are here. I was just about to send a message," Detective Tom interrupted whatever word Victoria had to say. But the latter didn't look offended. Joe looked at Heaven's pale face again and turned to the detective. The smile on his face disappeared and his signature cold expression appeared. He nodded and detective Tom walked forward. "Miss...," He paused and pointed at Victoria. He just realized that he
"You are finally awake Leo. How do you feel now?," Two people frowned at this question. The first person was Leo. He stared at Joe's face hard, trying to recollect where he must have seen him before but after a few minutes of deep thoughts, he decided that he has never met Joe before. The second person is Victoria. She frowned at the fact that Joe was acting more calm with Leo than she had expected. Why the heck is everyone just disregarding her evidence? "I'm fine," Leo finally answered. He sat up and tried to hold back a wince. "Who are you?" "I'm Joe. The divisional crime officer of the city's police station. I'm in charge of James Greene murder case," Joe flashed a badge at him. The latter didn't even notice it. He simply fell silent at the words 'murder case'. He stared into space, wondering how everything suddenly went wrong. Why did James have to die? Why did they kill him? How did they manage to bypass the tight security in the house and get rid of his godfather
Joe was starting to feel frustrated. "Mr Leo, you aren't really making this easy for us. If you would just cooperate with the us, we will be able to get this over with." Leo banged his hand on the table right then and finally ranted,"What the f*ck do you expect me to say!? What else do you want me to say that I haven't told you? I already said I'm not that killed James. He was like my grandfather for f*uck sake." "Mr Leo, do you think we would let every criminals brought in here go just because they claimed to be innocent?," Joe snickered. Leo couldn't do anything than clench his fists tightly. Great! Now he is being referred to as a criminal for doing absolutely nothing. "So, I'll advise you to listen attentively to my questions and answer carefully. It won't hurt to...," Joe's words was interrupted by the creak of the door. He and Leo turned to the direction of the door. A cop walked in and saluted Joe first before laying out the info he'd acquired,"Sir, the test result
"Thank you," She even mumbled a word of thanks to the doctor and didn't notice the uncomfortable look on his face as he hurriedly packed up his tools. One of them fell on the floor, making a loud crash sound and Heaven didn't hesitate to bend down to pick it up. But she noticed how jittery the doctor's hands seemed when he collected the tool back. He didn't even remember to thank her in his nervousness and just left the room. Heaven watched him leave with a weird look on her face but shrugged. He must have a reason for acting so weird. She continued to watch her mother until she fell asleep. She was awoken a few minutes later by the guard she'd ordered to get her food. Feeling strange, Heaven asked him to stay back in the room and began to devour the food. By the time she was done, the takeaway was in an unrecognizable condition. She discarded it in the trash can and suddenly felt nature's calling. Heaven grimaced as she held her stomach. She really couldn't hold it