Boyfriend says I’m too much—Someone else’s turn Chapter 14

Boyfriend says I’m too much—Someone else’s turn Chapter 14

was the one with zero shame.

ut I never thought the day would come when I’d find Asher just as shameless.

I lifted my gaze across the breakfast counter and looked at the man sitting opposite me

“Are you even listening to me”

He coughed a couple of times half his face buried in a windbreaker. There were faint shadows under his eyes–clearly.

someone who didn’t handle all–nighters well.

1 car be your interpreter,” he said.

A reasonable offer. Objective. Even a little tempting.

Because of his help yesterday, things had moved noticeably faster. I couldn’t find a flaw in his logic.

So I brought him along and questioned everyone who had attended the meeting that day. Most of them had already been interrogated countless times by the police, but with Asher beside me, they were a bit more patient, a bit more

willing to cooperate.

All the while, he kept coughing beside me.

Yesterday, during that heavy snowstorm, he’d been wearing nothing but a thin shirt–and even gave me his coat.

Of course he’d catch a cold

But I had no standing to care anymore.

I wasn’t the Roselyn Gordon who would panic over his fever at midnight and run out in the rain to buy cold medicine.

At most, I could tell him to drink some warm water.

“We’ve questioned everyone three rounds already,” Matthew said from the bar counter, scratching his head with a pen. Everyone connected to the victim has also been separated and placed under protection.*

“If it really was a revenge killing then there probably isn’t much left to worry about.”

Then he looked up and saw Asher Owen standing beside me.

famous physicist Asher Owen.”

He grinned “Honestly. I should thank you. If you hadn’t been such a heartless bastard four years ago. Roselyn might not

*You glaring at me won’t help. What, thinking about how to kill me? Relax, this is a civilized society…”

I tuned out his rambling

Something about this case felt wrong. Then again, every case we handled felt wrong.

“None of you will get away…”

That was what the message left by the killer said.

Based on the available clues, revenge seemed like the most likely motive.

Everyone connected to the victim had already been placed under strict protection.

Logically, I shouldn’t have felt this uneasy.

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