Chapter 103 - A Sudden Visit

"Mister Wu, aren't you here to look for President Mo?" Edith asked as they reached the lobby area. "You don't need to send me back. I can manage. Besides, public transport in L City is pretty good."

A chuckle escaped him. "Miss Qian, you don't have to be polite. I came to see Neil just to hand over some documents to him. My mission is completed and I have time to send you home."

Unable to decline his invitation, Edith followed Henry to his Range Rover and ride shotgun. He drove out of the basement and into the road.

"Miss Qian, are you sure you are not interested in working for me," Henry spoke after a while. He glanced at Edith with a languid smile. "You can tell me. Hazel is not here today."

Edith laughed and a gentle smile appeared on her face as she recalled how the little girl had prevented her from joining Henry and his security firm.

"Mr. Wu, did you offer to send me home just to ask me to change my career?"

The smile on Henry's face stretched up. "Ah! I was found out."

"Thank you for your offer, Mr. Wu." Edith chuckled. "But I have to decline."

"You like working with kids? Other than little Hazel, I don't think that I will be able to deal with kids. They give me a headache." Henry glanced at the girl beside him and watched her laugh. "You mentioned that your grandfather was a cop. Why didn't you follow his footsteps."

Edith chuckled. "It's not that I didn't want to. But, my grandfather would not like it if I choose to follow his career path." 

"Why not?"

"My parents passed away early and my grandfather was the one who raised me. I am his only family and he is mine. Perhaps it was because of that, he didn't want me to choose a dangerous career path and I didn't want to do anything that would make my grandfather worry." A chuckle escaped her. "After high school, I have a hard time choosing what I wanted to do next as my grandfather would object to most of my choices. In the end," Edith paused and shrugged. "I chose to be around with kids."

Henry let out a long sigh. "Too bad. I guess I don't have such fate with you."

The phone in Edith's bag rang as the vehicle arrived at an intersection. She hurriedly took out her phone and a slight frown appeared on her face when she saw the caller ID. Edith swiped her finger on the screen and pressed the phone to her ear.

"Edith Qian," Aaron Li's voice was heard before Edith was able to say a word. "I'm in the city. Come over and meet me. Didn't you say that you will treat me to dinner when I come again?"

Edith was momentarily frozen upon hearing Aaron's words. "What? Aaron, where are you right now?"

"Me? Of course, I'm at the L City Police Headquarters," Aaron said. "I have just finished my meeting with the higher-ups. I can come over and meet you immediately. Where are you? L City or A City? I can come and pick you up."

"You just stay there. I'll come over and meet you."

The phone call ended and Edith turned to Henry. 

"Is everything alright?" Henry asked. He did not know what was going on, but he could detect Edith's anxiety when she was on the phone.

"It's fine," Edith answered and smile. "Mr. Wu, could I trouble you to drop me off at the L City Police Headquarters? Or you can stop at the side and I can grab a cab."

"Why are you going to the police station?" A hint of worry appeared on his face at the thought that this girl had run into something troublesome.

"A friend from my hometown came to visit. I promised that I will treat him to something delicious when he came over to the city." Edith saw the strange look on Henry's face and chuckled. "My friend is a policeman."

Henry heaved a sigh upon hearing her words. "I'll send you over to the headquarter. Anyway, my office is somewhere near that area."

After almost ten minutes' drive, Henry pulled the vehicle on the roadside and watched as Edith took off after thanking him. His brow raised when he saw a man walked over to Edith and the two left in that man's vehicle together.

His phone rang and Henry pressed a button at his Bluetooth device. 

"Have you send her home?" Neil spoke as the phone was connected. He had looked at the time and thought that by this time, his friend had dropped off Edith back at the condo.

"I drop her off alright," Henry answered. "But not at your place. Miss Qian asked me to drop her off at the police headquarter."

Back in the MH Group Headquarters, the pen in Neil's hand stopped abruptly and a long line of ink appeared on the important document. 

Assistant Shawn, who happened to see this accident could only scream in horror discreetly. It was an important document, but it looked like he will have to print it out again for his boss to sign.

"What happened to Teacher Qian?"

"Nothing," Henry chuckled. "She said that she was meeting a friend from her hometown. I saw them just now. Their relationship seemed pretty good."

"A friend?" A crease appeared at the space between his brow.

"Hmm," Henry nodded. "She mentioned that he's a police officer."

Neil was suddenly reminded of the man that he had met at the beach in Z Town. Back then, Edith had introduced him as her friend and he too was a police officer.

The frown on his face deepened. He recalled that the two of them had a good relationship. Suddenly, Neil felt uneasy.

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Meanwhile, Edith took Aaron to a barbecued place by the street not far away from the police headquarters. 

Once their order arrived, Aaron stared at the grilled shrimp and heaved a long sigh. "I thought that you were taking me to eat something delicious. In the end, you took me to eat some street food. Edith Qian, you're very stingy."

"I only promised you some good food. Who said anything about expensive food?" Edith removed a piece of meat from the griller and placed it on Aaron's plate. "Expensive food isn't necessarily good. Let me tell you this, if you want to have good food, the first thing you should think about is street food."

A waiter walked over and placed a few bottles of beer on the table. 

Aaron poured the drink in the glass and offered it to Edith. His brow rose upon noticing that the girl didn't pick up the glass. "You're not drinking?"

"I can't today," Edith said.

Anyway, she still remembered that she had promised Neil that she will not drink a drop of alcohol as long as she was still Hazel's caretaker. She didn't want to return home drunk and accidentally said something that offended her boss.

Edith picked up a piece of meat, blew on them, and stuffed them into her mouth. "Why did your supervisor frequently send you over to L City?"

"We are working with those guys in L City with some case." Aaron waved a hand. 

Through Aaron, Edith heard about a murder case in L City that had some similar M.O with the case that they have seen in Z Town years ago.

Edith remembered seeing news about this murderer before. The women were found at a secluded place in a gruesome manner. And these women... there were signs that they were violated before they died.

Aaron placed his glass on the table once he had finished telling Edith bits about the case. "Right. Don't run around if you got nothing to do. It's not safe.. Where are you heading after this? Your friend's place again? Let me drop you off."

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