companion ghost

A tall and strong boy ran left and right with the ball, ignoring the chasing and intercepting in front of him. When he ran to the three-point line, he jumped up and tried to throw the ball into the frame with a graceful posture, but he didn't want to be intercepted by his opponent halfway. Hu, slapped the racket to the ground.

"Damn it!" Oleg cursed in a low voice, and quickly turned around to chase the ball, but who knew that the other party was organized and disciplined. After one intercepted the ball, the other immediately picked it up from the ground, and the other was in front of him. Block him in front of him, so that he has no time to look after him.

Oleg cursed again in his heart, but he was not scolding his opponent, but scolding himself for being too underestimating the enemy, and the distance from his teammates was too far, and they couldn't catch up, so that he fought alone to let the opponent succeed.

Oleg saw the opponent's stupid big man Levi happily slapping the ball and rushing back to his own half. He gritted his teeth and made a final effort, but was stopped by someone. Immediately, he was ready to lose the three points , secretly hated to take it back from the second half.

At this moment, the situation of the battle changed suddenly.

A tall man with blond hair and blue eyes broke into the battle. He stopped Levi. With a clever turn around, he snatched the basketball from Levi's hands. Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was surprised by him as an unexpected visitor, he ran away. After a few steps, he threw the basketball in Oleg's direction lightly and deftly. The latter subconsciously caught it, realized that this was an excellent opportunity, and immediately turned around and shot the ball—a three-pointer!

At this time, it happened to be a halftime break. Oleg and his teammates ran over and gave Casey a high five to express their gratitude before asking, "Man, who are you?"

Casey smiled and looked at his teammates: "Why don't we talk alone?"

Oleg shrugged noncommittally, and walked to the edge of the basketball court with him.

Casey took out her police ID: "I am Police Officer Casey Barron of the Manhattan Homicide Squad, New York, and I am currently investigating the death of Sean Barton."

Oleg's pupils constricted suddenly, and he lost his voice: "Shawn is dead?!"

Casey said softly: "I'm sorry, and my condolences will change."

Oleg's expression was unpredictable, and he said after a while: "During the years of his disappearance, I had already prepared for the worst, but when this day came, I realized that all the foreshadowing I made was done by him." It's useless!"

Casey reached out and squeezed Oleg's shoulder: "Now is the time for you to help Sean. We are investigating who the murderer is. I hope you can help us figure out the ins and outs."

Oleg was silent for a moment: "Just ask."

Only then did Casey ask, "Do you know Sean's stepfather, Andrew Slintel?"

An extremely obvious disgust flashed in Oleg's eyes: "Of course."

Casey didn't miss his intense reaction, pressing: "I heard Sean and him don't have a good relationship, do you know why?"

"How good will you get on with your stepfather?" Oleg snorted, but with so many years of experience in handling cases, Casey told him intuitively that it was not just because of this, so he decided to increase the stimulus: "You know Did the medical examiner find anything during the autopsy?"

Oleg looked at him involuntarily, for fear that his mouth would say some unacceptable facts.

"The forensic doctor found that Sean had gonorrhea before he disappeared." Casey looked at Oleg, "You are his best friend, and I think you know exactly why."

Oleg opened his mouth, but still no words came out.

Casey sighed: "Trust me, you don't want to know how Sean died."

Also this time, he did not miss the flash of hatred in Oleg's eyes.

When he got back to the car, Dino handed him a cup of coffee that he bought at that corner coffee shop, it was still warm, and by the way, he reached out and rubbed Casey's golden soft hair: "The result of the question is out." ?"

Kathy blew off the foam on top of the cold coffee and said angrily, "I know how Sean got gonorrhea three years ago."

Dino was taken aback.

NYPD Homicide Squad

Interrogation Room [-]

Casey walked into the interrogation room, closed the door behind her back, and put a cup of coffee in front of Andrew.

Andrew frowned: "Why did you ask me and Abby separately?"

Casey shrugged: "It's okay," he changed the subject, "I'm sorry to ask you to come again, we still have some questions that we haven't figured out and want to ask you."

Andrew nodded, picked up the coffee and took a sip: "Just ask."

Casey sat across from him: "Last time you told us that you suspected that Sean ran away from home on his own initiative, do you have any basis?"

Andrew sighed: "I believe you should also know that the relationship between Sean and me is not very good. He has always opposed me and Abby. Since we got together, he seems to have really fallen. Lying, skipping school, staying with some street gangsters, even smoking marijuana..." He shook his head, "At the beginning, when Abby and I had not given birth to Aphra, Abby had only one child, he It really broke her heart."

Casey hummed, took out the sandwich set she had just bought for lunch from under the table, tore open the package and started to eat. The aroma of bacon quickly permeated the interrogation room with the doors and windows closed. Andrew, who was dragged to the police station before he had eaten at noon, The involuntary throat rolled.

Ning Yuan chuckled outside the single-sided glass: "Why is Casey so annoying!" Then he rubbed his stomach, "I'm a little hungry too."

Shen Lie: "...you just finished eating a hamburger!"

are you a pig?

Casey motioned for Andrew to continue while biting the sandwich, so Andrew could only bear with his hunger and continued: "Sean ran away from home before, but he came back in a few days, so I always thought it would be the same this time. "

Casey scraped the salad dressing off her lips, noncommittal: "Abby doesn't seem to think he left on his own initiative."

Andrew smiled wryly: "Abby always holds the hope that he can come back one day on his own initiative, just like so many times before."

"You do not want it?"

"Of course I want to!" Andrew stared, "I have always regarded Sean as my own child, and I hope he can come back, come back to our house!"

"Really? I don't think so." Kathy put the half-eaten sandwich on the paper bag. "Why would you want him to show up again? After all, your statutory rape charge will be unknown until he doesn't show up." Isn't it?"

Andrew's pupils suddenly widened.

Interrogation Room No. [-]

"Please sit down," Dino smiled gently, and opened the chair for Abby. "I hope you don't mind calling me in a hurry."

Abby quickly became emaciated in just a few days. After all, the news of her own son's death would be hard for anyone to accept. She slowly sat down on the chair and whispered a thank you.

"I can't imagine your extremely painful mood now, but I hope you will be strong for your daughter," Dino handed her a cup of hot coffee, "You still have a family."

Abby nodded.

Dino leaned forward slightly, his dark brown eyes looked at Abby intently: "Do you want to talk?"