The Captain I Married by Chance novel Chapter 289

Nora gave a sharp nod and reached out to take the interrogation logbook.

"I'll head in."

"We owe you one, Dr. Hayes."

Nora was practically pulling double duty tonight.

But thankfully, she was only required to act as the official stenographer for the interview.

Her primary objective was simply to sit in the room, listen closely to the suspect's voice, and confirm whether or not he was the same man who had picked up Evelyn's phone hours ago.

Before stepping inside, she handed her own cell phone over to an IT technician to extract the audio recording of the bizarre phone call, then pushed open the heavy door to the interrogation room.

Sensing the shift in the room's atmosphere, the man slumped in the metal chair slowly lifted his head.

Nora immediately locked eyes with him.

He had incredibly striking, handsome features, and even slouched over a table, it was obvious he was unusually tall.

He was dressed in a rumpled gray sweatsuit, his damp hair plastered to the sides of his face. He radiated an aura of deep, tragic exhaustion, yet there was an undeniable, boyish innocence clinging to him.

It was a bizarre, almost magnetic contradiction.

Nora quietly took her seat at the edge of the table.

The lead detective wasted no time. "State your name for the record."

"My name is Liam Jennings."

"And what was your relationship with the victim, Evelyn Tate?"

Liam's pale lips began to tremble violently. His pupils dilated in real time, as if he were being violently dragged back to a horrific memory.

"Evelyn... she is my girlfriend."

The detective instantly seized on the subtle hesitation in his voice. "Why did you pause just now?"

Nora sat silently in the corner, clinically translating his emotional devastation into cold, objective shorthand.

Out of nowhere, an intrusive thought pierced her concentration—the plot of the webnovel, "Hush!".

She aggressively shook her head, forcing the bizarre parallel out of her mind so she could focus on the transcript.

"We got into a massive screaming match over it. I accused her of being incredibly toxic and irresponsible, of completely wasting my emotions, my time, and my life. I basically gave her an ultimatum: either we commit to a real, exclusive relationship right now, or we are completely done forever. I told her that if she walked out that door, I was never looking back."

"She said she needed space to clear her head. She didn't even pack a bag before she walked out."

"After that... she completely fell off the grid for half a month."

"When I finally managed to get ahold of her again, she begged me to come pick her up. She promised she was ready to fully commit to me."

"She even brought up getting married. We moved incredibly fast—we introduced each other to our parents and locked in a date for the wedding almost immediately."

"But during the whole wedding planning process, I started noticing some weird red flags. She completely lost her outgoing, bubbly personality. Every single day, she would just sit out on the apartment balcony in absolute silence, staring blankly at our neighbor's balcony."