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?’

this. A lot of buses don’t pick their passengers up at

Boyce said, “Got it.”

hung out. As he was still worried sick about Jasmine, he decided

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

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he

don’t you go to his house?” The police officer

thought for a moment, “Could

and Jasmine left in a cab after

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

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 not feeling good as her mother just

she was turning her phone on now 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 to say her goodbyes through the

a call, but the other person’s phone was

it for navigation the whole night. Currently, he was

to find Jasmine’s house. Her house was empty, deserted, and

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

one else at home after she went

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

like it was inhabitable

only left the village at noon. He rested in a motel in the county for two hours before rushing back to City

him out, so he went home to rest

was in deep sleep when his

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

replied, “Sleeping

are you still in the mood to

must’ve happened from Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up the call and

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

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

Miller served them some drinks, “Of course I believe you guys, but I trust Boyce too. I mentored him all these years, and I’m sure you guys are clear

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

this through. We won’t

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 they were, but

situation involved him. If

ear, “You