The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 758Chapter 759

"Julian!"

"Juli..."

Four voices rang out in unison.

Sadie squeezed out a feeble note from her throat, her half-closed eyes widening ever so slightly.

She wasn't faring much better than Julian, and it was a miracle she had held on this long. But now, seeing her husband collapsed, she couldn't catch her breath. Her legs gave way, and she, too, started to fall! Thankfully, Percival and Vivienne were quick to catch them.

Otherwise, with the slick floors of the police station, the elderly couple would've surely broken bones!

Kaitlyn's eyes were ablaze with fury, her dry tears sticking to the corners of her eyes, causing a stinging pain, "Rafferty, my in-laws haven't been convicted yet. Are you trying to make this a case of death without evidence?!"

Rafferty was also taken aback. He wasn't the one who had arrested them; he had only checked in on them during a shift change.

Back then, the elderly couple was sitting quietly in the holding cell, clearly frightened, but otherwise in good spirits. How did things turn so dire so quickly?

His sharp, eagle-like gaze turned to the junior officer beside him, his eyes filled with inquiry, "What's going on here?!"

"I... I don't know," stammered the junior officer, shivering.

Sure, he usually hung around the deputy chief, but everyone knew about Rafferty's uncompromising integrity. If Rafferty found out that he had deliberately lowered the air conditioning to make the suspects uncomfortable, his career here would be over!

direction. But ever since Percival

her makeup was impeccable, her eyes full

officer thought, "Seriously? You're swooning over a guy at a

cell all this time. If you don't know, should I personally check the surveillance footage?" Vivienne's hands moved away from the old couple's wrists, her icy stare shifting from the junior officer to Sophie and then back to Rafferty. "Captain Rafferty, is your police station's air conditioning so cold that i can knock

grandma be? She's capable of taking people out of your station? I need

this person?

even thirty, how did

Sophie, the muscles

even know

interjecting here? You've all conspired with Rafferty, trying to get this old man out, haven't you?!"

"Mrs. Ellington? Very well, just you wait, I won't let this go! This old geezer

"Captain Rafferty, you just wait! Tomorrow I'm reporting you to the higher-ups for collusion! Just wait to be dismissed!" Vivienne glanced at the retreating figures of Kipling and Zinnia, a cold

pill bottle, "Give them these pills for now. It's nothing serious, just the combination of their weak health and the cold temperature that made them faint. As for the red

this?! The holding cell is completely sealed, how could there

question for our junior officer here, isn't

She squinted, following

a smile at the sight

dark red fabric sprinkled with gold dust accentuated Percival's usually stern demeanor, giving

circumstances, she would have pounced on her Mr.

first glimpse of him

all sorts of admirers," Vivienne said, with another glance at Sophie, her

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