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?’

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 anything

Boyce said, “Got it.”

worried sick about

came to the police station to bid farewell to Boyce. She wasn’t coming

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he go?”

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

thought for a moment, “Could you tell me

officer told her Boyce’s address, and Jasmine

but no one came to it. Then, she just sat outside

switched off yesterday, not wanting anyone to disturb her

she wanted to bid farewell

the other person’s phone

used it for navigation the whole night.

county. With the help of the locals, he managed to find

family. It was pretty much

her mother served a sentence. There was no one else at home

in bad condition after being deserted for a

like it was inhabitable

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 going to the police

was in deep sleep when his phone

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

replied, “Sleeping at

are you still in the mood to sleep?

and realised something must’ve happened from Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up the call and went to get

Officer 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

our 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

for being upright and honest. He had

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

office without going into his own first. Upon seeing the room which was filled with uniformed officers,

hunch that this situation involved him.

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