Chapter 267 - You Want To Work Together?

During their meal, Mike continued to keep his eyes on Hazel.

Perhaps because the little girl had lost her parents, Mike found that he cared a lot about Hazel.

When he recalled how his granddaughter had described how Hazel was scared to the point that she had fallen sick and chose not to speak, Mike was angry again.

The little girl was such an adorable kid. He could not understand what did that person had done to make Hazel so frightened.

Seeing Hazel's condition at this moment only strengthened his resolve that he should go on with his plan to make that person faced his punishment.

Mike strengthened his resolve as he did not want another person to be a victim of General Attorney Leng again.

After the meal ended, both Sophie and Lucas sat beside their granddaughter to accompany her. 

Seeing that the three people were preoccupied, Mike decided to find Neil to discuss the matter about that person.

When he entered the kitchen, his granddaughter was doing the dishes with Neil helping her. The two were unaware that he was right behind them and continued to play around.

Mike let out a dry cough to catch their attention and watched his granddaughter looking at him with a shy look on her face.

"Grandpa," Edith called. The tinge of pink on her cheek suddenly became obvious. "Why are you here? Do you need anything? A glass of water?"

A sigh escaped him. "No need." He then turned to Neil and put up a serious look on his face. "Do you have time? There's something that I need to discuss with you?"

"What do you need to discuss?" Edith asked.

"This isn't related to you," Mike spoke to his granddaughter.

"I have time," Neil said to Mike. He then turned to Edith and smiled. "I'll go and talk to your grandfather first. Coincidentally, I have a few things I need to ask him as well." His hand reached to pat her shoulder. "It should be alright. Don't worry about it."

Mike stared at his granddaughter and clicked his tongue. They weren't married yet, but this granddaughter of his was too worried that he was going to harm Neil. He was her grandfather. Why doesn't she have a little trust in him?

Edith hesitated but nodded anyway. Then, she watched as the two retreated and headed upstairs.

"Grandpa, please," Neil said as he invited Mike into his office. He gestured for Mike to sit on the sofa and asked, "Grandpa, do you need a drink?"

"No. Just sit down and let's talk."

Neil walked over and sat obediently, facing the old man in front of him. "What do you want to discuss with me?"

"Hazel."

Neil's expression stiffened. "Why do you want to talk about Hazel?"

"I asked my granddaughter about what happened to the little girl and she had told me a little bit about it."

"What did Edith said?" Neil lowered his gaze.

"She mentioned something about General Attorney Leng."

A frown appeared on Neil's face. He did not like that Edith had told Mike about that man. Neil was aware that Mike was a cop, but he did not want to drag the old man into his matter.

General Attorney Leng was a really dangerous person who had killed his brother. Neil simply did not want the old man to harm his family anymore.

"I did not come over here and mentioned this matter to sow discord between you and my granddaughter," Mike said. He saw the look on Neil's face and was worried that this man was going to think of his granddaughter as a big-mouthed. 

"Then, what do you want to talk about?"

"I heard that you were investigating the General Attorney."

"I am. But we haven't found enough evidence that will drag General Attorney Leng to prison. We haven't found out the reason Hazel was so afraid of the man," Neil said. 

Since Mike was aware that he was investigating the General Attorney, Neil didn't find any reason to hide the matter from Mike.

Mike clenched his hands into fists. There was a frown on his face as Mike was wondering how he should break the news to Neil. Once he made up his mind, Mike looked up again. "Neil, you know very well that I am now investigating Edith's mom's death."

"I know." 

Mike had mentioned what he was doing behind Edith's back the other day. However, Neil did not understand why did the old man would suddenly mention this matter.

"There's something else that you should know," Mike paused. His expression turned uglier when he thought of the murderer. "I already found the person who was responsible for my daughter's death."

"What?" Neil had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but this was not what he had in mind. 

"The person who was responsible for that murder was the same person who had murdered countless women in Z Town as well as in L City. You should have heard about the serial murder that became the talk of the people recently?"

Neil nodded slowly. He could guess where this conversation was going. But… what does Hazel have to do with that?

"What if I tell you that the person who had murdered those women as well as Edith's mother, is none other than General Attorney Leng?"

Neil was stunned at the sudden revelation. "Grandpa, are you sure?"

"I don't have time and reason to joke about such thing. My team and I already have evidence in our hands. All we need to do was to find a way so that this scum did not have the chance to escape," Mike said.

His eyes darkened. Neil was not expecting that someone like General Attorney Leng to have done such disgusting crimes against women. To think that he had once respected that man... Neil felt nothing but disgusted.

"General Attorney Leng is very clever and he had a lot of people working for him. Once we made a mistake, he will have the chance to destroy our hard work and acted like he was not responsible for anything. That man had escaped my grasp years ago. I don't want him to escape again."

Neil leaned on the sofa as he tried to sort out his thought.

"I heard from Edith that you were wanting to look for evidence for that man's corruption as well," Mike said.

A chuckle escaped him. "More than that. I have reason to believe that he had killed my brother, Adam as well as my sister-in-law, Claire. The news might have reported that they died in an accident, but recently, I found out that there is a story behind that."

Mike leaned forward and met Neil's gaze. "I want to know what you know. "

Neil raised a brow when he understood Mike's intention. "You want to work together?"

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