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?’

cab or bus, then we cannot be sure about this. A lot of buses don’t pick their passengers up at the stations, and no IDs are required, so we can’t find

Boyce said, “Got it.”

he was still worried sick about Jasmine, he decided to head

to Boyce. She wasn’t

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he go?”

not sure either. Why don’t you go to his house?” The police officer

thought for a moment, “Could

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

knocked at the door but no one came to it.

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 not feeling good as her

was to give Boyce a call. Initially, she wanted to bid farewell to him in person, but it seemed that she couldn’t wait anymore and had

the other

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

Boyce finally arrived at J county. With the help of the locals, he managed to find Jasmine’s

did not leave immediately but asked a little about Jasmine’s family. It was pretty much the

sentence. There was no one else at home after she went to college,

tile-roofed house and looked to be in bad condition after being deserted for a long

it was

at noon. He rested in a motel in the county

he went home to rest right away instead of going to the police

in deep sleep when his phone

and picked the call up. Officer Miller’s voice came through, and he

“Sleeping

mood to sleep? Come to the

happened from Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up

supervision department. He vowed to them, “This is absolutely impossible. I know what

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

trust Boyce too. I mentored him all these years, and I’m sure you guys are clear about what kind of person

and honest. He had a good reputation in

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

which was filled with uniformed officers,

had a hunch that this situation involved him. If it were about somebody else, Officer Miller wouldn’t call him here with such

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