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.

resumed reviewing the statement report. He caught Nico’s entrance from the corner of his eye but

stopped in front of Cedrick’s desk and stretched his arm out

did Cedrick set down the report and glanced up.

an intact transparent glass

tube and studied it in detail before meeting Nico’s

Nico said, “Cedrick, I

at him. “That was quick. What did you

knock 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 biological brothers. A couple of instigations from me, and he

beans.

a

moment.

Tell me

“Sure thing, Cedrick.”

the praise

Karl had led every household staff, including. 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

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 he’s hoping to

uniform, he got up from his chair and

gaze.

give Karl

was Karl’s first time being brought into an interrogation room with a cuff around his

said he would be interrogating Karl himself, but the former didn’t show up for the entire afternoon after throwing Karl into the

were painted pitch black. The entire room was dead

the dim glow, the pressure Karl was feeling was

His mental

pressure.

his torture would

door to the room

in, took a seat at the table, and stared at Karl

in trepidation, “Why did you detain me,

with amusement. “Everyone who came in here said 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 go

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

best to

cunning fellow. The latter will employ all kinds of psychological tactics once he has a suspicion in mind. I

anything you want, Mr. Jenson. I’ll answer you truthfully

truth. The law won’t be so kind to you if you

sounded casual, but his deep voice was twined with

the lump in his throat and

beside Cedrick with a laptop in front of him. His fingers