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?’

she took a cab or bus, then we cannot be sure about this. A lot of buses don’t pick their passengers up at the stations, and

Boyce said, “Got it.”

out. As he was still worried sick

her schooling matters and came to the police station to bid farewell to Boyce. She wasn’t coming back, and

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he go?” Jasmine

sure either. Why don’t you go to his house?”

thought for a moment, “Could you tell me

Boyce’s address, and Jasmine left in

arrived, she knocked at the door but no one came to it.

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

farewell to him in person, but it seemed that she couldn’t wait anymore and had

but the other person’s phone was turned

of battery after he used it for navigation the

at J county. With the help of the locals, he managed to find Jasmine’s house. Her house was empty, deserted, and her

about Jasmine’s family. It was pretty

father’s death, her mother served a sentence. There was no one else at

house and looked to be in bad condition after being

seemed like it

He rested in a motel in the county for two

he went home to rest right away instead

when his

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

“Sleeping

mood to

realised something must’ve happened from Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up

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

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

served them some drinks, “Of course I believe you guys, but I trust Boyce too. I mentored him all these

being upright and honest. He had a

Don’t worry. We’ll investigate this through. We won’t accuse Boyce of doing the things he never

Boyce arrived at the station, 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

Officer Miller called him. Boyce had a hunch that this situation involved him. If it

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