Rebirth Into My Second Chance

But now, what he's doing is beyond my comprehension. I can't see through him anymore.

This afternoon, Max didn't even let me catch a break. He called me up and ordered me to get down to the basement and ride with him to the police station's forensic department.

I obediently climbed into the passenger seat of his car. He was silent the whole ride, only handing me a set of tools and saying, "Make sure you protect yourself well. Don't get hurt."

I knew that participating in an autopsy, especially one for the police, required extra caution. Any mistake could be fatal.

But hearing it from Max made it feel different.

"Thanks."

I noticed he had doubled the usual amount of latex gloves in the toolkit for me.

Soon, we reached the police station. As we entered the morgue, a chill crept up from my feet. The sight of bodies covered in white sheets made me look around, wondering if there were souls watching us, souls as defiant as mine. What could her story be?

"Don't space out."

Max's cold reminder snapped me out of it, and I continued to pass him tools.

He did most of the work himself, having me just take notes and hand him what he needed.

"Give these notes to Ronald."

the work was done, he washed his hands repeatedly. It seemed he was

in, Max gave him a cold look. "Don't call me for

call you because you're the best, man. Our guys couldn't find

"Out."

eyes lighting up. "This murderer's methods match the ones from our previous cases. Female victims, usually assaulted before being killed and then burned to a crisp. It's a serial killer on our hands. If

managed to extract some

said it was impossible, that

Max, he

Max's cough stopped

jealous? He didn't want Ronald hugging anyone

Collins, everything's in the

knew we

"Let's not have a

resist looking back at the charred body one last time. That time, Max was also ordered to examine me wasn't

en

were too similar to those used

the person behind Kate be

down my spine, spreading fear

it's

but he must

heard