Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap by Hannah Baker

He frowned and thought to himself, ‘Why is her phone turned off?’ She had no other place to go to other than the campus, which was already empty by now. He looked at the man and asked, “Did she say where she was going?”

The man shook his head, “But I think she probably went to the crematorium first, otherwise where would she put the body?”

Boyce looked at the time. The crematorium was already closed by now. He replied, “Okay.”

While pushing the door to his office open, he thought of something and called the man again, “Is there a record of her hometown’s address in the file?”

“Where’s that?”

“J county.”

Boyce asked again, “Is there a detailed address?”

The man doesn’t remember, “It should be there.”

“Bring me the file.”

Then, Boyce walked into the office while the man had to go and get the file for him. When he came back, he passed the file to Boyce.

“You can go home now.” Boyce took the file over and looked at the address section of her record. J county, which was a mountainous place, was quite a distance away from City B. Initially, Boyce wanted to send his men to accompany Jasmine back to her hometown when she came and claim the dead body since he didn’t have the time to spare.

She was a girl and needed to be taken care of.

But it looked like she left already.

Boyce closed the file, feeling uneasy as he sat back in his chair.

Public transportation required the passengers to purchase tickets with their IDs now, so if it wasn’t this late, Boyce could’ve found out how she traveled back home.

However, he was fidgeting from his worry for that girl.

In the end, he couldn’t sit still anymore. He took his keys and left the office. Once he got into the car, he used his phone to navigate the way to J county. After planning his route, he drove on the road according to the navigation.

Actually, Jasmine hadn’t left yet. She wasn’t planning to return anymore after leaving, so she was still settling her school matters for dropping out.

That was why even after the sun came up the following day, Boyce couldn’t find any of her traveling records after getting his people to check on it.

“She didn’t purchase any train, high-speed rail or plane tickets? There’s no record at all?” Boyce’s heart skipped a beat. ‘How did she go back then?’

buses don’t pick

Boyce said, “Got it.”

out. As he was still worried sick about Jasmine,

came to the police station to bid farewell to Boyce.

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he go?”

don’t you go

a moment, “Could you tell

address, and Jasmine left

she knocked at the door but no one came to it. Then, she just sat outside and

for Jasmine to leave, Boyce was still nowhere in sight. She turned on her mobile phone, which she switched off yesterday, not wanting anyone to disturb her

farewell to him in

made a call, but the other

after he used it for navigation the whole night. Currently, he was buying

he managed to find Jasmine’s house. Her house was empty, deserted, and her neighbors said they had not seen her come

little about Jasmine’s family. It was pretty much the same as what Jasmine had told

There was no one else at home

and looked to be in bad condition after being deserted

seemed like it was

left the village at noon. He rested in a motel in the county for two hours

long time had worn him out, so he went home to rest right away instead of

when his

call up. Officer Miller’s voice came through, and he sounded rushed,

“Sleeping at

in the mood to sleep? Come to

clear-headed now, and realised something must’ve happened from Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up the call and went to get ready

the other hand, Officer Miller was dealing with people from the supervision department. He vowed to them, “This is absolutely impossible. I know what kind of

investigating this matter because our superior received a report. We are unwilling to believe that any public officials have such a rumour too. Please trust

too. I mentored him all these years, and I’m sure you guys are

was known for being upright and honest. He had

this through. We won’t accuse Boyce of doing the

he headed right to Officer Miller’s office without going into his own first. Upon seeing the room which was filled with uniformed officers, he was stunned for a moment. He knew who

situation involved him. If it were

his ear, “You got reported for bribery. These people are