A Moment in Destiny
Chapter 927 Combined Investigation

Marcel saw that she was being like this, and still he explained, "That woman is in the same profession as us, a policewoman from City C! That's all I can say!"

Rae looked at him and replied, "She's definitely not just treating you so simply as a friend in the same profession!"

Marcel frowned, "Even I couldn't see it, how could you have saw this?"

"Have you slept with her?" Rae asked directly.

Marcel felt a little awkward. "I was drunk that day, and we happened to go to the hotel, so we slept together. But we didn't do anything!"

Rae merely smiled sarcastically. "I don't want to be involved with you now, and neither should you be involved with me, I think it's better that we don't see each other for the time being! Don't find me for anything other than official business!"

Saying this, she did not even give the chance for Marcel to speak, and walked out directly.

Marcel almost swore in the office!

Rae did not know why she was so petty, she could not help but be jealous.

She did not move for the entire afternoon, and Marcel did not find her either.

Until the second morning, Lexie notified her that she had to attend a meeting.

Only then she took her notes and went to the meeting room.

When she went in, she saw Marcel, Easton, Garbassi, and two other policemen under them.

After Rae came in, Marcel greeted her formally, "Rae, you should take part in the investigation for the murder case at YS Club as well!"

Rae was quite shocked this time, why would Marcel allow her to participate again?

At this moment, the people from the forensics team came to report.

Rae sat down, being quite close to Marcel. She was supposed to be Marcel's secretary, so she was sitting quite close to Marcel at this moment. "Captain Hopkins, the autopsy report is completely generated!"

"Alright!" Marcel nodded, "Go on about it!"

At this moment, Garbassi reported with a stack of materials, "Before Karina died, she had used quite a lot of psychedelics, which caused her to have hallucinations and drowned! We performed at autopsy on her body, and found that she was also pregnant, and the foetus was about three and a half months old. We then analysed the samples sent over from the investigating team colleagues. We confirmed that the child's DNA wasn't of Stefan's, and had a very low percentage of blood relations with him. According to the DNA samples of Reuben and Heath that were sent over, we did a DNA test and found that the similarities of the child's DNA and Heath's DNA was of 99.99 percent. So we are sure that the child in Karina's abdomen is of Heath's!"

Once she said this, everyone was stunned.

Rae had not known much about it and could only listen, she had found out from Ophelia that Karina was Stefan's girlfriend, so why would the child be of the second young master of the James family? Marcel frowned as he listened and did not interrupt.

Garbassi continued, "According to our investigations on the CCTV footage, the wine that Ophelia had given Karina that night was taken from the waiter. From the footage she hadn't tampered with it. We didn't completely rule out the possibility that the psychedelic wasn't in the wine or that Karina had taken it herself afterwards, or that she had taken other drink or food containing the psychedelic in other places and et cetera!"

Marcel still stayed silent.

But Rae heaved a sigh of relief.

She still did not understand the entire process, so she could only listen silently, trying to understand bit by bit!

Stefan's lover had a child with his own son!

She suddenly thought of Mathew and Raphael!

She had to say that this world was sometimes quite messed up.

Afterwards, the meeting decided to fully investigate the James family.

Stefan, Reuben, Heath, Fern James...

The two cases were combined into one investigation.

The issue in YS Club, and the James family headed by Stefan James.

After the meeting when almost everyone had left, and as Rae was about to leave, Garbassi stopped Rae. "Please wait a moment, Rae!"

Rae turned, and saw that Marcel and Garbassi were both sitting there.

Marcel still remained silent, his face not having any expression at all.

But Garbassi started instead, “Rae, I heard that you and Ophelia had been quite close lately. We know that she's Stefan's lover, so I hope you can keep a secret of the contents of today's meeting!" Rae was rather surprised. But since Garbassi was of a higher position compared to herself, so she listened quite respectfully.

She had not been able to make her stand when Garbassi continued, "In the case that someone let the news out early, they would all be removed from their posts!"

This was a warning!

Rae looked at Marcel on instinct, this was his intent! Just that it was coming from Garbassi's mouth!

After Garbassi finished, Rae's first reaction was to look towards Marcel. But he stood up coldly, without a bit of any expression, he walked outside.

Rae did not answer and waited until Marcel left.

Garbassi looked at Rae and asked, "Rae, do you understand?" Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the (ꜰind)ɴʘvel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Then only Rae nodded, answering word by word, "I understand!"

"That's great, you can go now!" Garbassi was packing up as well, getting ready to leave.

Rae picked up her notebook and walked outside. She saw Marcel who was standing in the corridor, smoking a cigarette. His slender fingers held on the cigarette, while behind the smoke was his dark, unreadable expression.

Rae walked past him and did not speak.

She walked straight, her expression silent as well.

He did not call for her, and did not even look once at her.

The rain in the deep autumn came unexpectedly, falling without any symptom.

When she was getting off work, it was already quite chilly.

Before that at this moment, Raphael would bring over an umbrella or send over a driver to pick herself up. But now, Raphael was in custody and was under investigation.

When Rae walked out of the lobby it was already raining cats and dogs, the entire world was washed down with rain water.

The rain and the fog were everywhere, she stood at the door and shuddered.

She had come out quite late today, and when she came out the sky was almost dark. It was also a gloomy day and it was raining, and it became even darker. The wind blew, under the street light, the rain was falling everywhere like a curtain.

Rae felt the coldness from the sudden drop of temperature immediately. She looked at the rain falling from the sky and could not help but puffed some air into her palms.

A male black trench coat was suddenly shrouded onto her body.

"...?"

She lifted her head and looked, and saw Marcel.

His handsome face had not a lot of expression, and even his voice was light, being extremely calm.

"Wear it, and take the umbrella." He put the coat over her and reached to button up the trench coat buttons before her chest, his movements gentle and forceful.

She looked at him, and asked, "What about you?"

He only had a shirt inside, it was obvious that the trench coat had been prepared beforehand and had never been worn.

But it was extraordinarily cold today, yet he had given his clothes to her.

She saw that he was wearing so thinly and felt that he would be cold as well, especially when the cold wind blew and the chilliness rose from inside. It made her could not help but feel like hugging him, to give him some warmth.

Marcel looked at her and smiled. "It doesn't matter to you that I freeze to death, isn't it?"

Rae stunned and froze, she did not know what to reply.

"Wait for me here, I'll drive the car over!" He finished speaking and without giving her the chance to speak, he already went to start the car.

Rae wanted to tell him that she would not go back with him, but he had already gone far away, barging into the rain. In an instant, his clothes were already wet.

Rae could only wait at where she was, but inside she was in a dilemma, fighting between whether to go or otherwise.

In an instant, Marcel was already back, he drove the car beside her. After stopping, he opened the car window and exposed his entire handsome face. His hair was wetted by the rainwater and had curled up slightly, it actually looked rather playful.

"Are you coming over with an umbrella? Or should I come get you?" He asked.

Rae stunned and replied quickly, "I'll get on the car myself!"

She raised the umbrella and walked into the water with it. Turning over the body of the car, she walked towards the passenger seat.

Rae did not see that, although Marcel was now completely drenched, but his eyes had a triumphant sly look in them!

Rae pulled the car door open and got onto the car. As she was keeping the umbrella, she saw that he was fully drenched and could not help but said caringly, "You've been in the rain, you're going to catch a cold!"

"It's alright! If I catch a cold so be it!" He was nonchalant. "A person like me needs to be punished by the heavens!"

As he said so, his fingertips slid over her face. The cold temperature went along her cheeks and pierced into her limbs.

Rae was shocked into a shudder, as she shrunk.

Marcel laughed, "Follow me back home!"

She had not been able to answer when he had already come over to pull the seatbelt for her and fastened it. The moment as she was in shock, he leaned down and kissed her lips, and then only he started the car and left!

Rae felt that she was a dummy, she had followed him back without even knowing it!

When they reached the InterContinental Century City, her whole body was dry, but his was already totally wet. She told him to take a bath, but he pulled her into the bathroom as well. This bath lasted for about an hour and a half, and when Rae came out she was already completely exhausted, and she was carried back into the bedroom by Marcel to rest.

The second day, when Rae woke up in Marcel's arms, her first reaction was to be flustered!

"Surely you don't have to have that sort of flustered expression? I remembered that my performance last night was rather good!" Marcel's voice rang deeply by her ear.

Rae raised her eyes instantly, meeting his eyes.

His eyes were all black, and were glimmering like onyx.

When Rae looked over, he was watching her heatedly.

"When did you wake up?" Rae felt that his condition did not look like he had just work up!

He looked at her and replied, "An hour ago!"

"Why are you awake so early?" What had he done after he woke up? Why did he not have even the slightest movement?

As if he could see through Rae's puzzlement, Marcel gave her the answer. "I kept watching you for an hour, you were sleeping so soundly! Your saliva came out a few times and I wiped it all up!"

As he said so, he even pointed at the napkins on the nightstand.

Rae's face was instantly red, her cheeks were redder than a red apple and it was extremely adorable.

"Well, your shy look is even cuter!" He continued teasing her.

Until Rae's face was redder. It was so fiery that it went all the way to her graceful neck, and even the base of her ears was all red.

But Marcel became addicted to teasing her. "I just like the way you're pinkish, as if you were taking a bath!"

"Stop talking!" Rae stopped him from continuing his talk.

But Marcel held on to her and sighed heavily. "My Ms Baxter, are you no longer angry now?"

Once he spoke only Rae remember that she still has principles. She pushed him away, jumped off the bed, took her clothes and put them on as she said seriously, "I want to have an pact with you!"

"A pact?" Marcel pondered on the words bemusedly.

"Yes! A pact!" Rae repeated. "I feel that there's a need for us to talk about it properly, or else we would fight again afterwards!"

"Alright!" Marcel nodded and smiled. He pulled her over and hugged her, as he teased her, laughing, "I feel that it's very necessary too, for instance the matter that Ms Baxter had not listened to her boyfriend and simply dated other men! We really need to make an agreement!"

Rae was quite speechless. Why would there be this sort of man that was so unreasonable? It was him that had been messing around with other women, and was so intimate as if they were one, but instead he had turned the tables on her.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐

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