Wooing My Ex-Wife by Mr. Adeel

Chapter 504 Come Clean

Cedrick was skimming through every witness’ recent statements in his office at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Jasper knocked at the door and entered the room. He stood at the empty spot in front of Cedrick’s desk.

“Mr. Jenson.”

Cedrick didn’t even lift his head. His gaze was still focused on the statement report in his hands. “Yes?” he questioned.

With his hands clasped behind his back, Jasper advised, “You’ve kept Mr. Craig in the interrogation room for two days, Mr. Jenson. He’s still the deputy director, after all. With his mother’s recent accident-”

“Quit spouting nonsense.” Cedrick shot Jasper an impatient glance and warned, “If you don’t explain why you’re here in five sentences, be prepared for a super-intensive training session at my office for the entire evening.”

Jasper’s body stiffened at the threat.

He recalled the torture he’d been through the last time Cedrick made him stay back at his office. Knowing he still needed to carry Craig back to the Newton residence on his back, he knew he couldn’t risk at training session at that point.

I can’t take another minute of that kind of torture.

He opened his palm, ready to count the number of sentences. Just as he opened his mouth, Cedrick coldly reminded. “You’ve already wasted four sentences earlier, so this is your final chance.”

Jasper was shocked.

When did I say four sentences? I remember it was three sentences and a pause. Wait. Did he count the pause as one

sentence?

Aware of Cedrick’s tenacity, he didn’t dare to refute and get straight to his point. “With the passing within Mr. Craig’s family, he’ll need to be released to handle the funeral proceedings if you can’t prove his involvement in the case within three days according to the rules and regulations since he is a civil servant.”

He expressed the entire paragraph in one breath, not daring to pause for even a second.

When he finished, he finally got to exhale a deep breath.

Cedrick coolly lifted his gaze to Jasper and smirked. “He had only been detained for two days, and we didn’t even rough him up for a confession. Yet he’s already losing his patience.”

Jasper refuted, “But Mr. Jenson, Mr. Craig-”

“Get out. Tell Craig if there’s no progress in the case before we get off work today, I’ll let him walk out of the room to handle his mother’s funeral proceedings.”

“All right. Thank you for your consideration, Mr. Jenson.”

Jasper bowed respectfully, turned around, and walked out of Cedrick’s office.

The minute he stepped out of the room, Nico came in.

report. He caught Nico’s entrance from the corner of his eye but didn’t tear his gaze from

stretched his arm out with something in

Cedrick set down the report and glanced up.

was an intact transparent glass tube,

reached for the tube and studied it in detail

praise, Nico said, “Cedrick, I managed to get the information out of

was quick. What

some sense into him with proper reasoning. I checked everything he did as of late and found he had bad blood with Craig, despite being

beans.

joke or laugh during work, but a rare, gratified smile played on

moment.

good. Tell

“Sure thing, Cedrick.”

the

bodyguards, to bury something in the backyard. This was the day after the welcome party. Feeling dubious,

listened carefully as he fiddled with his watch.

smiled coldly. “Since someone is losing his patience in the interrogation room, let’s settle all these dreadful matters by today. I’m afraid he’ll have to wait until his next life if

his chair and headed out the door with

gaze.

give Karl a

first time being brought into an interrogation room with a cuff

the former didn’t show up for the

a dim light shone down from overhead. The walls were painted

the dim glow, the pressure Karl was feeling was tremendous.

bullets as he waited in the room. His mental state began to weaken under the

pressure.

his torture would come

to the room swung open.

in, took a seat at the table,

you detain me, Mr.

the same thing. They claimed to know nothing, yet would choose to confess in the end when they broke under pressure. I’ll let you choose. Do you want to come clean or

the subtle threat. His legs began to shake like a leaf.

best to keep calm.

cunning fellow. The latter will employ all kinds of psychological tactics once

answer you truthfully and won’t hide anything

law won’t be so kind to you if you change your statement

his deep voice was

swallowed the lump in his throat and nodded.

a laptop in front of him. His fingers tapped on the keyboard nimbly