A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 835 Monitor Them All

"That's right!" Gustavo Wagner’s expression was saying you were smart.

"What's the result?" Rae Baxter couldn’t wait to know the answer.

"Braeden Walls is not Melody Knox's child's father!" Gustavo said.

"Uh!" Rae was taken aback, probably they were wrong and the child’s father was someone else? "Fortunately, Braeden still kept his basic ethic and standard!"

"I mean, if the kid’s father is not Braeden, it would be complicated to find the kid’s real father." Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

They discussed the case in the hall.

"Good morning, Captain Hopkins!"

At this moment, someone greeted Marcel. Rae and Gustavo turned their heads and saw Marcel coming inside the building. Today, he wore a burgundy shirt with dark stripes, a pair of dark trousers, simple style clothes. But it made him look slenderer.

Marcel just nodded politely to everyone's greetings. He stared at Rae and Gustavo. When he saw Rae, his gaze paused for two seconds and then he strode over them.

Gustavo briefly reported the test results.

"Captain Hopkins, this is not the result we predicted? How do we do next?" Gustavo couldn't help but ask it eagerly.

"Rae, you go and check the real estate under Braeden's name! Also, check Piper Salinas's relatives."

"What about me?" Gustavo asked.

Marcel took a look at Gustavo and said seriously, "Mr. Wagner, if I remember correctly, the donkeys in the city are still waiting for you to take care of them, when you plan to do that?"

"Puff--" Rae couldn't help bursting out a laugh. She was afraid that she laughed too abruptly, so she tried to keep up her laugh so that her whole face was slightly trembling.

Marcel glanced at Rae without any expression, as if he ignored his humor and it was not funny at all.

Gustavo widened his eyes and protested in a low voice, "Captain Hopkins, your words are ambiguous! I am not interested in donkeys!"

"But I will be very interested in your investigation results!" Marcel said solemnly.

"Yes, I'm going now!" Gustavo didn't forget to declare himself as he walked out, "I'm not that perverted to raise donkeys!"

Early in the morning, they received orders to go to work, and Gustavo led some people to check the DNA of 65 male donkeys.

Soon, Rae came back and went to find Marcel, "Captain Hopkins, there are three apartments, two villas, and a storehouse under Braeden's name. The storehouse is located at No. 12, commercial street, North District of City B."

Marcel frowned.

"Has the source of information been identified?"

"Yes! The registration information was from the Housing Management Bureau. Braeden's inherited a residential building from his parents after they died in the year he graduated. The apartment was nearby the Affiliated High School of SC Normal University with a total area of 78 square meters. His parents were both teachers, his father was a professor of the History Department of SC Normal

University, and his mother was a biology teacher in the Affiliated High School of SC Normal University. He worked at school at the age of 22 because of his parents. After a year of graduation, he bought an apartment in the Faculty Residence Area of the SC Normal University. It was the place we went to last night. It had a total of 86 square meters. Another apartment was in the North District, about one station away from the storehouse, 90 square meters. He bought the villa the year before this year. According to the house price of City B back then, it cost him 8.9 million."

A teacher owned so many properties?

Marcel squinted his eyes, looked like a cheetah found its prey.

"Also, Captain Hopkins, he has rented all these properties out!"

Marcel glanced at Rae and said, "Rae, can you finish the main points at once?"

Rae was taken aback, and she nodded her head, "Yes, Sir!"

"Anything else?"

"Yes! His old apartment of Affiliated High School of SC Normal University was rented to a chemistry teacher called Kaden Duran!!" Rae did not forget that Melody Knox and her friends often wandering around near Affiliated High School. "And Kaden and Piper Salinas are cousins! Piper’s mother is Kaden’s aunt! In addition, I found out that Piper also has a half-sister named Kenzie Salinas, 28 years old. She works at the SC Normal University Archives, according to investigations, Piper and his sister used to have a bad relationship, and they reconciled because of Braeden. It is said that Kenzie dated with Braeden for about 3 months ten years ago."

Marcel frowned slightly, thinking about something.

"Go on!" he said.

Rae reported all the results of the investigation.

"The camera in the residence area of Affiliated High School of SC Normal University broke from 3 months ago, so there has been no video in the last three months. There was no video of Melody entering or leaving Kaden's apartment. However, the camera at the intersection caught her when she was about to enter the residence area. It was from eight nights before the incident, and there was no video of her leaving the area!"

"Maybe she stayed in the area overnight, maybe she got out by car, those are all possibilities!" Marcel said.

"Yes! But no witnesses proved that she went elsewhere that night! At least she was familiar with at least one resident in this area!" Rae said.

Marcel nodded.

Rae finished the investigation report and passed Kenzie's photo to Marcel. Marcel glanced at it and frowned.

"It was not her!"

"What?" Rae didn't know what he meant.

"The woman who showed up at Braeden's apartment last night was not her, Kenzie!" Marcel stared at the photo for a while, then picked up a pen and quickly drew something on paper.

Rae wondered, Kenzie wasn’t the one?

Didn’t they say the woman looked like Piper?

Kenzie also looked a lot like Piper!

But this was serious, it couldn’t be treated randomly.

Marcel drew something on the paper quickly!

Rae looked over and saw that the pen was like being endowed with life and turning smartly in Marcel’s hand. After a while, a portrait of a woman was outlined on the paper. It was a pen sketch painting without any modification. The facial features were very clear, indeed like Piper's. And it was also similar to Kenzie, but the woman's eyebrows were different from Kenzie's. She had one higher and one lower eyebrow, and there was no mole on the corner of her mouth, but Kenzie had a mole on the corner of her mouth.

Marcel handed the paper to Rae.

He painted really well and lifelike!

It was very vivid even if you didn’t see the real person, his painting was really good!

Rae discovered for the first time that Marcel could paint. He was versatile!

Marcel said solemnly at this time, "Take it to investigate the identity of this person, and also find out the background of Kaden! Also, send people to monitor at Kaden, Piper, and Kenzie!"

"Already done that!"

"All of them?"

"Yes! All of them!" Rae felt they were suspicious, so they had to be monitored.

Hearing this, Marcel looked at her again. This time he was not unhappy. He just stared at her for a while without saying anything. Then, he lowered his head, rubbed his stomach gently with his hand, and frowned tightly.

Rae looked at his action and was a little worried, "Captain Hopkins, what’s wrong with your stomach?"

Marcel closed his eyes and leaned for a while, then removed the hand that was on his stomach, and said to her, "I haven't eaten anything since last night!"

Uh!

Why it sounded like he was complaining to her? Yesterday, Marcel drank a few glasses of wine with the leaders and left the restaurant without eating. On one side, he was not interested in these formalisms. On the other side, it was important to investigate the case. Of course, no one knew how he truly thought, maybe he had another purpose.

"I'll buy breakfast for you!" Rae felt that this was the response she should have.

She left the police station and went to the porridge booth to buy a chicken porridge and a few steamed dumplings. She thought that he had a stomachache and so she also went to the pharmacy to buy stomach medicine. Fortunately, they were all not far away from the station and she could go back soon...

When she went back to the office, Marcel was no longer in the office. The door of the office was open, and he shouldn't have gone too far.

Rae put the food and medicine on his desk, she thought for a while, took out a sticky note, wrote a note and pasted it on the takeaway box, and went out to work. She didn't forget to close the door for him when she left. People with monophobia probably didn’t like others who appeared in his office uninvited!

After a while, Marcel came back soon and was slightly startled when he saw the things on his desk. He walked over and picked up the notepaper on it and found a few lines of delicate small hand-writing characters.

Captain Hopkins, the porridge and steamed buns were very clean. I bought them from the opposite side of the police station and they had a high-quality food standard. I also bought the medicine. Please enjoy the food assured! Also, eat on time if you had stomach problems!

Marcel wanted to leave originally. He paused when he saw the note. Then he stared at the things on the table. Finally, he decided to sit down and took one and put it in his mouth. It seemed to taste not bad.

He, slowly, had a smile on his face, which was extremely gorgeous, but unpredictable.

Marcel walked to his window and pulled up the blinds. He looked down to the lobby outside of the window, a slender figure was busy, and she frowned as if she was in deep thinking about something.

They were a few meters away, Marcel watched the person outside the window quietly while eating the porridge. After eating a long time, when he finished the porridge, he walked back to the table and finished the remaining buns, he felt satisfied and wanted more.

Rae was busy with dealing the cases at the moment. She had to contact witnesses of Philippa's case, also investigated and visited related people. Melody Knox's case was also there. There were not many people in the office who could help her at a time, so she could only print the materials herself, which made her even busier.

She received a call from Raphael Gill at 11:30am.

"Rae, I'm downstairs!"

Rae remembered Raphael said that he wanted to meet her today. She said to the phone, "I am very busy today. If you want to eat lunch, I only have about forty minutes, let’s just go to the XM Restaurant nearby the police station!"

Raphael said on the phone, "Okay!"

Rae met Marcel bringing a few people upstairs when she was packing her things and going downstairs.

His steps were very big and he walked fast, and he reached where Rae was standing within a few steps.

He didn't look at Rae but walked straight over her.

Rae did not talk to him either but went downstairs.

At downstairs, every time Raphael appeared, it was a pleasant landscape as he was tall and slender and had an outstanding appearance. People who saw him couldn’t help but look at him a few more times.

Rae looked at him from a distance, Raphael was wearing an elegant suit, but his tie was untied. With the clothing like that, he even showed a different sense of attractiveness.

Rae walked towards him and Raphael opened the car door for her.

Upstairs, Marcel stood by the window and looked out at the parking lot downstairs. The open-air parking uncovered everything that happened in there.

He frowned slightly when he saw Rae get into Raphael's car.

Later, Marcel picked up the phone and called Easton Holder.

"Urgent notice, we will have a meeting in fifteen minutes!"

"Oh!" Easton was taken aback, and respond, " Yes, Sir!"

"Let others in your team know we will have a meeting."

"Yes, Captain Hopkins!" Easton quickly took his orders.

At the XM Restaurant.

After parking the car, Raphael and Rae went into the restaurant. XM Restaurant was a Sichuan restaurant, a three-story restaurant, and the price of the dishes were not expensive. It could be count as an affordable restaurant.

As soon as they entered the restaurant, Rae couldn't help saying, "I'm starving, Raphael, let's eat the fastest one. I will buy you dinner next time. I'm extremely busy these days!"