Here wasn’t the first crime scene.
Marcel looked at Rae again.
Rae didn’t say anything and was still blushing.
The corpse made everyone sigh as it wasn’t a pretty sight.
Being the same as woman, Rae felt upset and wanted the case to be cracked immediately.
“Captain Hopkins, I think both of these two cases are abnormal, the lower part of the bodies are naked and they wore red clothes.”
This reminded Rae of Philippa’s clothes last time, which Philippa also wearing red clothes as well.
Marcel Hopkins was startled for a moment, with his eyes deep. However, he didn’t say anything, lowering his head down and continued examining the corpse.
“That’s right! Both are red clothes! Is that coincidence or intention?” said Rae and Gustavo Wagner realized it.
“You all are good at discovering!” Marcel turned back and said, then continued examining the corpse.
Rae and Gustavo looked at each other, but didn’t dare to reply anymore.
He examined the corpse carefully without feeling disgusting and frowning. Although the corpse not wearing pants and having injuries at the intimate part, Marcel treated it like an exquisite craft without feeling awkward.
Gustavo asked, “Captain Hopkins, did you discover anything?”
“It’s just a habit,” Captain Hopkins answered but didn’t say what he had discovered.
“This situation has high similarity with that we found out two days before! I suspect it’s serial killing case!” said Gustavo again.
He said, “There was a sexual abuse case happening five years ago. I remembered my senior had mentioned that there was a twenty-year-old woman which was his previous colleague’s daughter, found dead at Western Suburbs of City B. She seemed to die due to drowning, but actually she was being sexually abused. The old policeman lost his family as his wife and son died due to road accident while her daughter died after twenty years. It’s so pitiful leaving him alone!”
At that time, Rae looked pale, watching the corpse lying on the ground.
The real Rae died of sexual abuse!
Even though Gustavo didn’t mention the name, she clearly knew that the old policeman was
her father, Kane Graham.
She imitated Rae five years ago until now, everyone only knew that the deceased was Natalie Graham. Everyone knew how pitiful Kane Graham was, but no one knew his plan.
Thing that made Rae feel even more upset was the real Rae was dead because of sexual abuse. She never knew and didn’t want Rae to die in this miserable way. No, that was Nat. Nat was the one died.
Marcel didn’t react to what Gustavo said. He seemed to be just frowned, but didn’t say anything.
The handsome face he owned looked even more sexy when he was deep in thought, and he even looked gorgeous.
Rae who was still thinking about her past, looked up and saw Marcel. This made her tremble suddenly.
“Gustavo, is the case solved?” Marcel said suddenly with a deep voice.
“Which case?” His sudden active made Gustavo shocked.
“The death case of the old policeman’s daughter!”
“Yes, the culprit had been executed by shooting many years ago. Oh, that girl studied in Public Security University. My senior said her name is Natalie Graham. She seemed to graduate from the same school with you.”
At the time he said, Rae looked up and looked at Marcel quickly.
Marcel just listened to him and didn’t show any expression.
Rae stared at Marcel and hoped to find out his emotion, but she could only see him showing some unconcerned and calm expression. She felt extremely disappointed.
He really forgot!
Rae felt cold at that moment.
She had hoped that Marcel could remember her slightly, even if when mentioning ‘Nat’, Marcel would say, “Oh, I remember that girl! She was my junior!” This one sentence would be satisfied.
At least he got some impression of her.
Yet he seemed to have forgotten completely.
Rae looked at his handsome face, reflected by the green mountain behind him. Her eyes were getting mistier, her face was gradually paler and her mood was getting worse.
Marcel was still examining the corpse seriously. Gustavo no longer said anything since he realized nobody was paying attention to him.
After examination, Marcel got up and took off his gloves, then said, “Let’s go back and talk about it.”
Rae was panicked. Marcel discovered her emotion, followed by his frown and impatient look.
Rae looked up and saw his frowned eyebrow again, then lowered her head slowly.
Were his eyes showing some impatience and unpleasant?
When she took a closer look again, it turned calm.
Could it be just hallucination?
Rae shook her head.
‘Was he thinking of me having a pale look because of being afraid of corpse?’
Even if he was disgusted with me, he forgot ‘Nat’ totally. Who would remember Nat in this world? Who even knew the one died was Rae actually?
Rae felt even more upset and her face looked even paler.
After the corpse had been taken away, Gustavo thought that she was afraid of corpse and teased her, “What’s wrong with you, Rae? Isn’t you brave? Why you’re frightened?”
“I felt a little bit cruel!” said Rae softly.
“Then let’s solve the case quickly!” said Gustavo.
“Well!” Rae nodded. Meanwhile, she found that Marcel was looking at her with his sharp eyes.
Rae frowned and wondered how she had provoked him again. Maybe she was too sensible?
She was annoyed, then explained, “I’m not sensible usually!”
It was necessary to be calm whenever handling a case, but she was influenced by Rae’s death and Marcel, affecting her to become more sensible. In fact she had always been kind of sensible person. She sympathized with the deceased and hated the culprit.
“A person who is too sensible is not suitable to be a criminal police,” said Marcel viciously.
Rae didn’t answer. She found that the way he spoke was unpleasant.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...