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?’

of buses don’t pick their passengers up at the stations, and no IDs are required, so we can’t

Boyce said, “Got it.”

worried sick about Jasmine, he

the police station to bid farewell to Boyce. She wasn’t coming back, and they wouldn’t have a chance to meet each other

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he go?” Jasmine

Why don’t you go to his house?” The

for a moment, “Could you tell me his

police officer told her Boyce’s address, and Jasmine left in a cab after saying her

she arrived, she knocked at the door but no one came

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 as she locked herself up in the hotel room. She was

Boyce a call. Initially, she wanted to bid farewell to him in person, but it seemed

call, but the other person’s phone was

out of battery after he used it for navigation

one night, Boyce finally arrived at J county. With the help of the locals, he managed to find Jasmine’s house. Her house was empty, deserted,

Jasmine’s family. It was pretty much the same as what Jasmine

sentence. There was no one else at

was a tile-roofed house and looked to be in bad

house seemed like it

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

a long time had worn him out, so he went home to rest

was in deep sleep when his phone rang, awakening

the call up. Officer Miller’s voice came through, and he sounded rushed, “Where are

replied, “Sleeping

you still in the mood

Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up the call and went

the supervision department. He vowed to them, “This is absolutely impossible. I know what kind of person Boyce is. He

We are unwilling to believe that any public officials have such a rumour

some drinks, “Of course I believe you guys, but I trust Boyce too. I mentored

for being upright and honest. He had a good reputation in the field

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

without going into his own first. Upon seeing the room which was filled with uniformed officers, he was stunned for a moment.

here, Boyce.” Officer Miller called him. Boyce had a hunch that this situation involved him. If it were about

Officer Miller pulled him closer, mumbling lowly in his ear, “You got reported for bribery. These people are here to interrogate you, be