companion ghost

The atmosphere in the office was once awkward.

Klein still maintained his grip on Alston's collar. Alston didn't know if he was out of breath or something when he saw him, his eyes were slightly red.

"I……"

Alston didn't care about the punched face, his throat rolled, but he couldn't speak.

Klein let go first.

"You lied to me." He repeated, his pretty eyes filled with disappointment, "You made me think you were dead, I even bought you a cemetery, and I went to see you every week with flowers! Then suddenly In the meantime, you stood in front of me alive, tall and heroic," he sneered, "I understand, you are not a male prostitute, and you don't have the past that broke my heart, I guess Your name is not Kim Booker."

"I..." Auston looked at the man in front of him, and said the first sentence with difficulty, "My name is Auston Xia Zuo."

"Mr. Xia Zuo," Klein nodded, "So those five months were nothing but a complete lie."

Companionship and licking each other's wounds in those late nights.

Those hugs that bring him a sense of security.

Those smoke rings from their lips in the dark.

That lawsuit.

And the scene of the car accident that broke his heart at the end.

It was all a lie.

Alston's mouth opened and closed, he didn't know what to say.

Say it's not like that?

But the fact is that in those five months, none of the words that came out of his mouth were true.

The police officers, including Ning Yuan, were dumbfounded.

After a long while, it was Dino who came back to his senses first, and coughed lightly: "Mr. Reid, I remember that Dr. Ning just said that you are here to report a crime. May I ask what kind of case you are reporting?"

Auston frowned immediately after hearing this, and subconsciously held Klein's arm: "Report the police? What's wrong with you?"

Klein threw him away without even looking at him, forced a smile at Dino, and picked up the briefcase he had left on the table just because he was about to hit Auston: "It's nothing, forget about it Just pretend I haven't been here today."

After speaking, he apologized to Ning Yuan in a low voice, and rushed out the door.

Auston's fists were clenched tightly, and his veins burst out.He tried his best to suppress the surging breath in his chest, and said to Ning Yuan in a hoarse voice: "Doctor, come to my office."

Ning Yuan's face instantly collapsed.

I really don't want to go to your office when you are so angry now!

Auston went first, and Casey grabbed Ning Yuan's arm: "Doctor, doctor, I have gossip to share!"

Ning Yuan pinched his face angrily: "Then I will come out with my life!"

office

Ning Yuan followed Oston in, Oston said: "Please close the door, thank you."

Ning Yuan closed the door as he said.

"I..." Auston paused, as if he was phrasing, "He... you have a good relationship?"

Ning Yuan is honest: "It's okay, not a close friend, but the relationship is not bad."

"I just heard from Dino that he came to report the crime? What's going on?"

Ning Yuan hesitated for a moment: "Captain, I respect you and like you very much, but I can't tell the truth. There are doctor-patient confidentiality regulations. Unless Klein allows me to say it, otherwise I..."

Auston waved his hand: "I understand, I made things difficult for you."

Ning Yuan knew that there was nothing wrong with him, so he turned around and left with a sigh of relief.When he walked to the door, he thought for a while, then turned around and said, "Captain, Klein's psychological defense has been very weak recently, and he should need the company of others." He finally added, "If It's best if you can."

Auston didn't speak, just sighed: "Thank you, doctor."

Shen Lie stepped into the homicide office and saw the police officers were "whispering"—it couldn't be said to be whispering, after all, they didn't speak aloud, and all communication depended on lip movements and gestures.

Shen Lie's first reaction was that he thought he was deaf.

Until Casey saw him and beckoned him to come over.

Shen Lie was surprised: "What are you doing?"

Gloria motioned him to keep his voice down: "Don't talk to the captain now."

Shen Lie frowned: "What's going on?"

Dino patted him on the shoulder: "You missed a big show."

Ning Yuan ran out of Oston's office, saw Shen Lie took his arm and ran away: "Hurry up and tell you something!"

Casey was angry: "Isn't gossip agreed to share together?!"

It's chilling!

"What? You said Klein had a relationship with Auston?"

Shen Lie was shocked.

"I don't think it's appropriate to say that there have been." Ning Yuan narrowed his eyes, "Looking at their posture, I think it is very likely that there will continue to be."

Shen Lie just felt baffled: "How did the two of them meet? The world is too small."

Ning Yuan also tsk tsk.

Fate, amazing.

"But the problem now is," Ning Yuan thought of Klein who rushed out of the door, "he disagrees with accusing Vincent of rape, and we don't have a case in hand, but it is understandable that no one wants to let the former lover knew he had been raped."

Shen Lie also frowned, and then let go: "Look at Klein himself, we can't just force him to make any decision with high-sounding moral kidnapping."

Ning Yuan nodded.

In front of the door of a townhouse, Oston hesitated again and again, raised his hand to the door and put it down before he rang the doorbell with a gritted teeth.

The doorbell rang three or four times, and Oston sensitively heard the sound of slippers being pulled on the floor inside. He subconsciously laughed a little. This is one of Klein's cute little habits.

The door was opened a crack, and the half-opened light purple eyes of the person inside the door widened when they saw him, and they wanted to close the door vigorously in an instant, but Auston was faster than him, and immediately stretched his feet under the crack In the meantime, his elbows also blocked the tendency of the door to be closed.

Klein wanted to close the door, but Auston wanted to open it.

After a stalemate for a while, Klein gave up trying to compete with him and relaxed.

Alston breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door wide: "Aren't you going to invite me in?"

Klein briefly refused: "No."

Orston was not discouraged: "I just want to see you, let's have a good talk, shall we?"

"We have nothing to talk about," Klein folded his arms and looked indifferent, "I told you, I hate people for lying to me."

"I didn't mean to deceive you," Alston stepped into the door forcefully, closed the door behind him, pressed Klein against the door panel, and shrouded him under his tall figure, "I have no choice."

"No, you did it on purpose," Klein said without fear, and such an aggressive posture didn't make him flinch, "You lied to me about your name, you lied to me about your identity, You lied to me about your past—God only knows what you're saying is true!"

"I'm undercover!"

Auston still couldn't help growling in a low voice: "I can't say anything! Do you think I don't feel heartbroken when I see you go to the cemetery every week? You think I'm 'dead' and I've been 'dead' ever since. Can you forget about those five months?"

"I thought?" Klein sneered, "I'm not surprised that you're undercover, but I know now that even if your undercover investigation is over, even if you're watching me in the dark and investigating me, you won't tell me that you're still alive News, even if it's just a text message, a note, or an email." He pushed Auston away, "I don't need your heartache, you can go."