American Detective: Starting as a Rookie Cop in an American TV Show

Chapter 1288 Choice
"I heard that you may have found the real murderer?" Cassel, who rushed back to the police station excitedly after receiving the news, asked loudly as soon as he entered the office.

Jack, who was about to leave, raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the interrogation room. "Beckett just sent him to the interrogation room. It should be just in time for you to go there now."

"Aren't you coming?" Cassel was a little surprised.

Jack waved his hand at him with a strange expression, "No, we've made a breakthrough in the case. It should only be a matter of time before Beckett wants to solve it. I should also go back and wait."

In fact, after seeing his two sisters wearing wedding dresses during the day, someone felt a little uneasy. Words like bride, quintessence, hatchet, good boat, etc. kept popping up in his mind, and when he pressed one, another would pop up.

Watching Cassel rubbing his hands excitedly as he walked towards the interrogation room, Jack couldn't help but shudder, his shoulders slumped, and he left the police station with a slight sigh.

What is coming cannot be avoided. Even if tomorrow is the end of the world, we still have to get through this tonight.

Hannah and Jiejie still live in the penthouse that Rosie lent to Jack. Some decent guy will only sneak over when one of the girls suggests that only one person is home tonight.

It's been before that the atmosphere was so tense and the three of them were just three people, but compared to Hannah, who had a weird way of thinking in this regard, Jiejie was more conservative most of the time.

Although he knew that even if he played dumb today and went back to the base building in Long Island to sleep for a night, the two girls would most likely not make things difficult for him tomorrow, Jack still gritted his teeth and drove directly back to the apartment.

Jack swiped the fingerprint lock, took out the key to open the second lock, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open with two bouquets of flowers and a bottle of red wine.

The lights in the apartment were a little dim, or to be more precise, none of the lights were on. There was a row of candles lit on the floor, extending all the way to the bedroom upstairs.

"What the hell?" Jack was stunned. At first glance, he thought he had encountered a ghost story.

Putting down the flowers and red wine in the living room, Jack carefully avoided the long row of flickering candlelight and went up the stairs to the second floor. He could not help but be stunned.

I saw the candles extending all the way upwards and then split into two rows after entering the corridor, extending to the left and right, pointing to two closed bedroom doors.

The bedroom on the right belongs to Hannah, and the one on the left belongs to Jiejie. Jack, with his senses fully open, can clearly hear a slightly suppressed breathing sound coming from each room.

"Is this how we play it?" Jack froze in place, his palms sweating and feeling dizzy.

This kind of question is probably more deadly than "If your mother and I fall into the water, who will you save first?" This is probably the one in front of you. Which of your two wives will you save first?
Although he had long anticipated that he would encounter a similar "test" sooner or later, when the problem was really put in front of him, he still felt uncontrollable cramps in his calves.

After hesitating for a moment and taking a deep breath, Jack resolutely raised his foot, stepped over a row of candles, and continued to walk inside.

He didn't choose either side and walked straight to the bathroom in the corridor.

In the bedroom, Jiejie, still wearing the classic fishtail wedding dress, sat upright on the edge of the bed. The small piece of skirt she was holding in her hand was already soaked with sweat. Especially after hearing Jack's footsteps coming up the stairs, her heart was in her throat.

To be honest, she was already regretting agreeing to play this game with Hannah.

Some things can keep you deceiving yourself as long as they are not exposed. As long as it is true love, you can be content even if you are just lovers for a lifetime.

But as long as they are human, they will always be competitive. Jiejie, who has been struggling with her conscience, actually wants to know whose room Jack will enter. Hannah's little game is certainly not as simple as it seems. The two girls not only exchanged bedrooms, but also agreed on the lines in advance.

No matter which door Jack enters first, the people inside will scold this guy righteously, questioning him why he doesn't go into his own room first, just to maximize his inner guilt.

The two of them had also agreed to advance and retreat together and to present a united front. It would be best if this guy could feel so guilty that he would sleep on the sofa downstairs tonight.

The apartment was extremely quiet. Even though there were two doors and a corridor between them, the sound of water splashing in the bathroom could still be faintly heard.

When the sound of water stopped and the bathroom was opened again, Jiejie's heart was lifted up again, and she even had the illusion of being unable to breathe.

She knew how Jack felt about her, but she was also aware of what was going on between him and Hannah.

When Jack was not yet an FBI agent, he was willing to take risks, even at the cost of his own life, just to avenge Hannah.

In comparison, although she and he had experienced life and death together, the cause was not due to Jack's subjective decision. It was more like a kind of "suspension bridge effect" that led to his willingness to be with him, and it was even her own initiative.

So, I am destined to be the loser, right?

These messy thoughts were tangled in her mind, so Jiejie didn't even notice that after the bathroom door opened, there was no sound of footsteps.

At this time, Jack, who had washed his face with cold water, was fully awake and realized that something was wrong.

Just like many people can tell whether a person is someone they know by the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs, Jack, who has superhuman perception, can even judge the identity of familiar people around him by the subtle differences in their breathing and heartbeats.

So after calming down, he realized something was wrong. Hannah's breath was slightly longer than Jiejie's, and even her heartbeat was relatively slower, but the breathing sounds in the room showed just the opposite.

With a turn of his eyes, he guessed what tricks the two girls were playing on him. He could even be basically certain that this must have come from Hannah's little head. The relatively sentimental Jiejie should not be able to come up with such a bad idea with unconventional thinking.

But this makes things simpler.

Jack took off his shoes and stood in the corridor. He confirmed again that the increasingly rapid breathing coming from Hannah's room belonged to Jiejie, and decisively pushed open the door on the other side.

Sure enough, the person sitting next to the bed was Hannah, who was wearing a light green wedding dress and looked like an elf queen. When she noticed that Jack pushed open the door of Jiejie's bedroom first, a barely perceptible sadness flashed in the girl's eyes.

"you this"

Hannah's scolding was stuck in mid-air because Jack had already picked her up and carried her on his shoulders.

"I knew it was you in there." After whispering this in the girl's ear, the scumbag carried her into another bedroom.

Jiejie was originally happy but also a little disappointed because she heard the sound of the door opening from next door. Before she could react, the door was pushed open.

Hannah, who was thrown on the bed, let out a cry of surprise, and Jiejie, who was still feeling uneasy, was embraced by someone.
(End of this chapter)