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
The doctor remained mute but he turned jittery. His palms were starting to sweat. Leo squinted at him. He is sure of what he is saying. He's had one kind of photographic memory since he was young so he wouldn't easily forget people that left a kind of impact on him except the insignificant ones. He ignored the whispers around him and grabbed the scared doctor by the collar, almost choking him. "I asked you a question and what I expect from you is an answer. Where is the doctor that was on duty earlier?" "Sir... There were so many... Doctors on duty... So how am I... Supposed to know... The one you are... Talking about?," The doctor managed to get the words out of his mouth with great difficulty. That was when Leo realized that he was choking him so he loosened his tight hold on the collar a little but not letting go completely. He moved closer to the doctor with a sinister smile. "Don't you dare try to act smart with me? You must know something at least an answer to my q
Larson chuckled. "Is that doubt I sense in you officer Joe? Why don't you go on investigating the actual murderer starting from the doctor instead of wasting your time bickering with me!" Joe was so infuriated. The bastard dared to use his own words against him. Has he no respect for the officer of law!? Feeling like he might explode with anger if he continued to stay there, he turned to the doctor who had long since shrunk back in fear at the argument. He just pulled the poor man by the collar and dragged him out of the ward. "Brother, do you think we can rely on these cops to get to the root of the matter?," Miles spoke for the first time. His words were however lowered and meant for Wave's eyes only. Wave rubbed his tired eyes. His hair seemed to have grown whiter even more. He sighed,"We have known Joe since he was installed into the post of a mere sergeant so I know we can trust him. Besides, he owes his entire life and what he had become to Victoria. So he definitely