Chapter 186 - Feelings Of Guilt

Best novel online free at novelhall.com or NovelTeam.Net

The two detectives left after asking Neil a few more questions. 

After they left, Neil sat down on the sofa and rubbed his temple. Noticing the quiet atmosphere, Neil turned to Edith and saw that she was sitting across him with her arms crossed on her chest and she was in deep thought.

Looking at her serious expression, Neil let out a chuckle. "What are you thinking about?"

Edith turned to his voice and her expression relaxed. "Just something that the detectives had said." 

Neil stood up and walked over to his girlfriend. He pecked at her cheek and smiled. "Don't think too much about it. I have told them what I know. It will be up to those detectives to look for Miss Shen."

Edith sat up straight and looked into Neil's eyes. "Darling, don't you think that it was a little strange?"

"What is?" He tucked a few strands of hair behind her ear. 

"Miss Shen was missing and it was understandable that they would ask you questions as you were the last person they talked to according to her call log," Edith said. "But, why did they ask your whereabouts last Sunday?"

She could not stop recalling the detectives' strange expression upon hearing Neil's alibi. Her intuition was telling her that the detectives were hiding something important from them.

Neil thought over her question and shrugged. "Probably something happened at that period of time and they wanted to ensure where I was."

Edith snapped her fingers. "Exactly. Something had happened during that time. That was why those detectives were asking for your alibi."

Neil stared at his girlfriend and suddenly burst into a laugh. "Edith Qian, are you playing detective?"

"I'm not." Edith pouted seeing his laughing face. "I am just trying to figure out what was going on."

"Let's not think about it too much and let the detectives do their job."

"Darling, aren't you curious?"

Neil let out a helpless sigh. "It's not that I am not curious. But, I don't want to keep on thinking about it."

Her expression changed upon hearing his tone. 

It was then that Edith remembered that her boyfriend might be the last person Miss Shen had talked to last Saturday. Amanda had called his number and asked for his help, but Neil had chosen to ignore her.

If something bad really happened to her, wouldn't Neil felt guilty?

Edith stood up and pulled her boyfriend into a hug. "Darling, are you alright?"

"I'm fine." He rested his head on her chest and sat quietly as Edith patted at his hair.

"I'm sure that Miss Shen would be fine," Edith said. "Don't worry. The police will find her in no time."

"I hope so," Neil paused as he tightened his embrace around her waist. "I will ask Henry to look for her as well."

The two of them head back home as Neil no longer had the mood to work. Their day resumed as usual. Edith went to the kitchen to prepare dinner with Hazel and the three of them ate their meals together.

Afterward, Edith helped Hazel with her homework and tucked the little girl into bed. Once everything was settled, Edith returned to her room and took a shower. 

She climbed on her bed and took out her phone to browse for news of Amanda Shen. A few news portals had reported her as missing. The netizen had not reacted too much to this news, thinking that it was not strange for a supermodel like Amanda Shen to go off the radar to find some quietness for her peace of mind. However, her fans expressed their concern and worry.

Just then, the door swung open and a familiar figure walked in. 

Edith glanced at the time and noted that it was a few minutes until midnight.

"Don't you have your own room?" Edith tilted her head sideways as she watched the shameless man climbed up her bed and slipped in under the duvet. "Why do you keep on coming to my room?"

Neil leaned in to rain his kisses on her face before he stopped and looked at Edith with a big smile on his face. "Then, how about we move over to the master bedroom?" He leaned in and whispered, "The bed is bigger and we can do all sort of activity and position."

The moment he finished his words, Neil received a smack on his chest. He laughed happily, grabbed the hand that had hit him before he pulled her closer to kiss her lips. 

Edith shot him a dagger look.

This man! Can he stop being this shameless for a day?

"Baby, when do you think you're going to move into the master bedroom?" Neil asked. "Aren't you tired of sneaking around Hazel all the time?"

"I am not the one who was sneaking around." Edith batted her eyelashes innocently. "Darling, you are the one who sneaked into my room every night."

"What am I supposed to do? I cannot sleep well without you by my side."

"Then, how do you sleep before this?"

Neil chuckled. "The keyword is 'sleeping well'. Before this, I did not have a good night's sleep."

Although his words were a little bit corny, Edith found herself unable to stop smiling. Edith thought that perhaps she had liked this man a little bit too much that everything he said sounded very sweet to her.

Neil adjusted the pillow under his head and pulled Edith over so that he could hug her to sleep. "We should really consider being more open in front of Hazel." Neil had one arm under her head and the other wrapped around her waist as they were spooning.

Edith adjusted to get into a comfortable position. "I will think about it. Let me talk to Hazel first."

"Alright." His lips curved into a satisfied smile as he kissed her neck.

Neil raised his head upon noticing the light that came from her phone. "What were you looking at earlier?"

"Just news about Miss Shen's disappearance," Edith said. She lifted her phone and was about to log out when she accidentally refreshed the portal she was on. The finger that hovered on the screen stopped and Edith did a double-take when she saw the latest news. "Darling…"

"What's wrong?" Neil asked upon noticing something from her tone.

"Look at this," Edith shoved her phone over, and Neil narrowed his eyes at the sudden brightness.

Then slowly, his expression changed as he read the news.

On the news portal, it was reported that Supermodel Amanda Shen was found dead last night near her apartment. A beggar had found the body and reported it to the police.

The beggar was not aware of her identity and therefore had not made any fuss about it. It was until the body was brought to be autopsied that they finally find out that the dead person was no other than Amanda Shen.

But what raised the public anger was that the police were planning to keep this matter a secret from them.

Read novel online free fast updates at novelhall.com or NovelTeam.Net