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

Chapter 1295: Tragedy by Mistaken Accident

"Don't leave me, Jessie (Jessica's nickname), I was wrong, it's all my fault. I failed to protect you, I'm sorry, forgive me"

The familiar scent filled his nostrils, and Reese remembered that it was Jessica's favorite lavender scent.

In his dream, he seemed to have returned to the time when the two of them were entangled, the familiar touch, the familiar fragrance, and the familiar whispers.
As if he was electrocuted, Reese woke up from his dream and subconsciously tightened his arms, but he knew it was futile.

Over the past three months, with the help of alcohol, he has dreamt of similar scenes countless times, but every time he woke up, the empty arms only brought him deeper emptiness and guilt.

But what seems to be different this time?

Reese's arm felt a little numb, and he wasn't sure if his sense of touch was still normal, but this time it seemed different from the past.

The dream was a little too real. Feeling the warmth in his arms, Reese suddenly opened his eyes, and then his pupils trembled violently.

What I see is that familiar beautiful hair, the fragrance I smell in my nose is still lingering, and even the feel of my hand is the familiar feel from many years ago.

"Jessica?" The voice Reese made sounded unfamiliar even to himself. He had never made such a trembling voice in his life.

"John, aren't you going to get some sleep?" The pretty face was filled with a smile that was very familiar to him. Except for a few fine lines at the corners of the eyes, the gentle face that haunted his dreams was exactly the same as in his memory.
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Downstairs in the living room, Hannah was cracking melon seeds like a little squirrel, her big eyes full of curiosity, "You said he killed Jessica's husband?"

Jack pretended to be serious, "To be precise, he is already my ex-husband, but I didn't hint at anything. As law enforcement officers, we have to stick to evidence."

Hannah waved her hand disdainfully. As the most popular girl among Jack's friends, Jessica had already become her best friend after these few months of contact.

There are many things that Jessica is not comfortable telling Jack directly, but women don't have so many reservations about this.

Jack noticed something was wrong through clues at the car accident scene, and after Jessica woke up, she told Hannah and Jiejie what happened in person.

The problem of domestic violence also does not distinguish between Eastern and Western cultures. It is not an exaggeration to say that the proportion of domestic violence against women in Europe and the United States is far higher than that in the University of Tokyo.

The joke about British men beating their wives was not made up by the French. The Americans, as Britain's cousins, are no less evil in this regard.

At the beginning of their relationship, Pete Arndt was just a little too patriarchal, and after Jessica ended her long-term relationship with Reese, she was somewhat eager to get married, so a marriage that was destined to be tragic took place.

Jessica, who suffered domestic violence shortly after her marriage, secretly called Reese several times and left messages on his voicemail, even though she was not sure whether Reese was still using the number.

For various reasons, Reese became her only lifeline.

But Jessica didn't know that Reese had actually left the army a long time ago and joined the CIA, and had been secretly carrying out missions in various places. The mobile phone number used to keep in touch with her was often only turned on once every two or three months.

If it were just this, Reese might have a chance to prevent this tragedy, but he was sold out by the CIA at this time. During a mission, the superior issued a kill order to Reese and his female partner respectively. The two agents who were unaware of this almost started killing each other after completing the mission.

As a result, at the last moment, the soft-hearted Reese was shot by his female partner. Fortunately, the protagonist's halo seemed to finally take effect, and he struggled to escape before the missile attack that was really intended to kill them arrived.

So theoretically, Reese actually died twice. Once was several years after he joined the CIA, he was recruited by a secret operations team and became an official "dead man", starting to carry out various extremely dangerous secret missions around the world.

This was also the time when Jack heard the news of Reese's death from "Thanos" Matt. It was not actually a test of Jack, but a "notification" to inform everyone who knew Reese's CIA identity that he was "dead."

Jack only guessed one thing right, that it was indeed a "fake death", but it was arranged by the CIA officials.

Later, he was silenced in a secret operation and became a real "dead man" in the CIA, but what really made him heartbroken was not the betrayal from the organization.

It took Reese nearly half a year to recover from his injuries, change his identity, sneak back to the country secretly, and successfully escape from the control of the CIA before arriving in New York State.

After getting married, Jessica lived in the suburbs of Allentown, New York, about 100 kilometers west of New York City. Reese went directly to the hospital where Jessica worked, but heard the sad news that her ex-lover had died in a car accident.

On the night when Jack and Jiejie encountered the fake car accident, Jessica, who could no longer bear her husband's domestic violence, tried to secretly call Reese again, but all she got in response was the cold message tone of the voicemail.

Pete Arndt, who noticed his wife's unusual behavior, became furious and accidentally pushed Jessica to the ground while trying to attack her.

Seeing his wife on the verge of death after hitting her head on the corner of a table, Pete Arndt did not choose to call 911. Instead, he carried Jessica into the car, drove to Atlantic City overnight, pretending that the couple was on a weekend vacation, and then released the accelerator halfway and crashed into the roadside.

If Jack hadn't suddenly decided to take Jiejie on a trip around the East Coast, this tragedy would have been almost doomed to be irreversible.

The so-called surprise he had promised to Reese was not so much a surprise as it was a way for Jessica to vent her anger in advance and prolong someone's pain for one more day.

Unfortunately, Jessica felt sorry for her old lover, so she planned to sneak back to the house that Jack helped her rent in the middle of the night. Finally, someone couldn't do anything about this crying woman, so he and Hannah sent her here early in the morning.

At this time in the bedroom, Reese also heard the whole story from Jessica. The doubts in his mind not only did not decrease, but increased a lot.

To him, it all seemed too much of a coincidence.

Although Reese has learned from Jessica that Jack seems to be more than an ordinary FBI agent, faking Jessica's death, waiting for him to appear in New York and making arrangements in advance can all be explained as some kind of bad taste.

But the question is, how did Jack know that he would be in New York after taking out Pete Arndt?
Even the CIA believed that he had died in the missile strike. How did Jack, the FBI agent, determine that he had successfully faked his death and escaped?

(End of this chapter)