Zion couldn't hear . But I knew he wanted to solve the case to prevent more won from being hard.
Perhaps it was due to his instinct as a police officer that led him to believe that I had run into danger. That would make him the only person who thought so.
"You police officers have so many cases to deal with and so many people to investigate each day. It must be exhausting for you, isn't it?" I muttered to myself in despair.
"Officer Landon, here is all the information I have on Sophia. As her phone was badly damaged, it's been sent to the Inspection Departnt for restoration and further examination. It'll take so ti."
Zion had ordered his n to dig up everything they could find about . Honestly speaking, I was pretty curious about what sort of a person I appeared to be in their investigation.
"All the information in her phone will also be exported after they've been restored."
Now, that was awkward. Wouldn't that an the police would have access to all my search histories and the diary I kept on my phone?
Zion took the material handed to him and skimd through it.
"Both parents died when she was 15, and she watched them die before her very eyes." The very attachnt on the docunt was a photo of the scene of the car crash back then.
I reflexively closed my eyes, unwilling to relive the mory.
"The Colemans adopted Sophia. Logically speaking, they should have quite a great relationship. But from what we can see, Damien seems to treat her like an enemy," one of the police officers murmured.
Zion said nothing and focused on the information he had of . They found out that I liked peaceful environnts, enjoyed painting, and even found so of my paintings.
They also had information about how well I did in school, my photos in the school forum, all the awards I'd received, and my application to pursue my education abroad.
"Had nothing happened to her, she'd be on the plane to Montavia right about now," Damien said thoughtfully as he checked the ti.
That caught off guard for a while as my heart clenched in pain. He was right. Had I not died, I'd have escaped Huma by now.
"We got sothing. Dave Lawson went and had a little chat with one of the waiters working in the Nocturnal Club. He said that he rembered Sophia."
"Apparently, she's got quite a good figure, so she left an impression on him. He says that Damien and Sophia did the deed at the Nocturnal about two months back."
One of the officers ran over and told Zion what he found. I covered my ears numbly. But I still could not block out their discussion about my private matters.
"There were a lot of people in their private room that night. But Damien's friends all left at one point, leaving only the two of them in the room. We can't know for sure if Sophia consented to it."
"Bastard!" Zion cursed under his breath. "What a bunch of scumbags!"
I appreciated that he was inclined to trust . Who would have thought that a stranger who only t once would be willing to trust ?
I could sense Zion's rage. He seed to empathize with .
I followed him to the police station, where the police quickly retrieved the warrant. After all, the serial killing in Huma had brought a bad reputation to the city.
It didn't take too long for Damien and his friends to be summoned to the police station. Even Jack was brought over, his face all bruised up.
"Are you guys out of your mind? Can't you see that I'm the victim? Why are you interrogating , not that madman?" Jack yelled.
"If he's a madman, he'd be able to walk away with killing you," Zion warned coldly. "You're suspected of sexual assault, so shut the hell up."
Jack was startled. "What? And who the hell did I sexually assault?"
"Sophia Milford!" Zion pulled Jack by the collar and dragged him into the interrogation room.
Zion had my diary in his hands. I have a habit of jotting things down in my diary. I was afraid that I'd forget all the pain these people inflicted on , so I noted them all down.
"That bitch should take a good look at herself in the mirror. I was doing her a favor by laying my hands on her."
Jack wasn't the brightest crayon in the box. He was used to being arrogant, under the delusion that his family was so rich that they could cover up all his tracks.
But Zion wasn't accepting any of that. Without any hesitation, he noted on the interrogation record that the suspect had confessed to sexually assaulting the victim.
Standing behind Zion, I felt secretly overjoyed seeing what he recorded. Jack would be getting the punishnt he deserved.
"On the night of the 13th, the few of you forced Sophia to lure the murderer out of hiding. Is that true?" Zion questioned frostily.
"We were just trying our luck," Jack replied nonchalantly as if everything was just a ga.
What they didn't know was that this ga of theirs had cost my life. My eyes reddened in fury upon seeing his flippant attitude.
I rushed up to Jack and scread at him at the top of my lungs. Like a lunatic, I was about to pick up a chair in the corner of the room to bash him up with.
But I wasn't able to carry anything at all. I could only watch helplessly at how haughty he was behaving.
"Do you know that your ignorance and foolishness could have gotten Sophia killed?" Zion's grip on the pen was tight, showing just how vexed he was.
"That's impossible. The murderer wasn't even interested in her!" Jack retorted offhandedly.
"On the 13th, 14th, and 15th, you sent Sophia to bait the murderer three days in a row. On the 15th, the night that she disappeared, why did you not file a police report right away? You delayed the police investigation!"
Zion slamd his hands on the table. He was so enraged that he had an urge to go over and beat Jack up.
But he was a police officer, so he suppressed the urge.
"No..." Jack seed to notice sothing amiss.
"We sent her there on the 13th and 14th, but the murderer didn't take an interest in her, so we gave up. I didn't make her go there on the 15th, so don't bla that on ."
I smiled wryly. So they didn't know that Juliet had tricked into going to Sunset Alley on the 15th.
Did Damien not know too?
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