companion ghost

In the interrogation room, the confrontation between Dino and Shariel was still going on. On the other hand, Casey, who had threatened Shariel before, put her arms around her chest and leaned aside and did not participate in the interrogation.

Ning Yuan was a little strange and asked, "Why didn't Casey ask?"

Shen Lie said lightly: "Don't you think one Dino is enough? If even a woman needs two male police officers to interrogate, the NYPD would be too pathetic."

Ning Yuan: "...The New York Police Department is really a gentleman."

In the interrogation room, Shariel seemed to be tired of being interrogated over and over again, so she crossed her arms and raised her chin at Dino: "If you don't have conclusive evidence to sue me, either let me go or give me Get a lawyer."

Outside the glass, Shen Lie raised his eyebrows slightly: "I'm starting to look for a lawyer." After speaking, he stretched out his bony hand and tapped the glass with the knuckle of his right index finger. Dino came out, and before Kathy came out, he said to Shariel Said: "Stay here and don't move."

After Dino and Casey came out, Shen Lie said: "That's it, you put her back."

Casey looked in disbelief: "It took so much effort to finally find someone, you want us to put her back?"

Shen Lie crossed his arms and said, "There is no evidence to sue her now, so you can only put her back—remember not to let this lady take a taxi by herself in the middle of the night, and you will send her to the door."

Cathy understood Shen Lie's implication, and couldn't help laughing: "No problem."

Dino said, "I'll go with you and take you home by the way."

Casey pointed to the room: "I have to send the coffee cup to James' office for DNA collection."

Dino glanced at the watch on his wrist: "It's almost eleven o'clock. He must have gone home five hours ago. It's useless for you to go. Put it in the evidence bag and deliver it tomorrow."

"Listen to Dino," Ning Yuan said, winking at Casey, "You need to have a good rest and stay with Karl."

Before Casey could speak, Dino walked out: "That's it, I'm going to pick up the car."

Casey: "..."

Looks like I don't have much choice.

Shen Lie left more simply: "We are leaving too, see you tomorrow."

After speaking, she pulled Ning Yuan and walked out the door, so Casey had no choice but to open the door and enter the interrogation room, and said to Shariel: "You can go, we will send you home, and we will come back to you if there is any problem. "

Shariel snorted, stood up and stepped on high heels, and walked out. Casey stayed behind her, reaching for the coffee cup, ready to take it out and put it in the evidence bag.

Just as he was about to take out the evidence bag from the drawer, Shariel turned around impatiently: "Can you hurry up, officer? It's getting late now."

Casey couldn't put the paper cup into the evidence bag without Shariel seeing it, so she had to put the cup next to the computer and send it to the forensics department tomorrow morning.

After Shen Lie and Ning Yuan returned home, they took a shower, tidied up and went to bed. Shen Lie was reading the file of the case at hand, and Ning Yuan was reading a book on psychology. The two leaned against the head of the bed, and after a while Ning Yuan slid down, moved into a comfortable position and nestled in Shen Lie's arms, holding up a book to read.

Shen Lie looked down at him, grabbed his wrist and pulled the book away a little: "If you get so close, you'll be blind."

Ning Yuan groaned, unable to break free from Shen Lie's hand, he could only give up, raised his head angrily and kissed Shen Lie's chin.

Shen Lie laughed, stopped his hand and flicked his head.

After a long while in such silence, Shen Lie suddenly said, "Are you in the group from now on?"

Ning Yuan didn't raise his head: "Yes."

"What about your clinic?"

"With my assistant watching for me, I'll go back and look at it from time to time," Ning Yuan said casually, "It's nothing serious."

Shen Lie turned a page: "I never thought you would come."

Hearing this, Ning Yuan closed the book and raised his eyes: "Why?"

Shen Lie was silent for a while, and then said: "You have seen a lot in the past year. The ugliness, darkness and filth of human nature are fully exposed here, and ordinary people would not be willing to do it."

Ning Yuan jumped up again, reached the same height as Shen Lie, and stretched out a finger: "First, I'm not an ordinary person; second, I'm doing the right thing; third, aren't you also doing?"

Shen Lie pressed his finger back: "I did it but not because I like it."

"Why?" Ning Yuan wondered, "Since you don't like it, why continue this job?"

Shen Lie said indifferently: "For atonement."

Dino drove Shariel back home first, and Shariel insisted on getting out of the car at an intersection, and they no longer needed them to see her off, but Kathy said: "If something happens to you here, you should be the one to blame. New York Police Department?" She blocked her objection.

After sending Shariel home, Dino wrote down her address and planned to go back to the office tomorrow to check it out. Afterwards, he put away the book, played a round, and said to Casey, "I'll take you home."

Casey turned on the phone screen, looked at the time, and it was almost 12:30: "Don't go home today, stay with me, what time is it, last time you put away your toiletries. "

Dino didn't refuse, and was very straightforward: "Okay."

"Well," Casey was a little sleepy, staring dazedly, "You can sleep in a room with Carl, or I can sleep in a room with Carl."

Dino's eyes dimmed: "I'll sleep with Karl, he probably misses me too."

When will there be a third option?

When they arrived at Casey's house, Casey opened the door with a key. Carl was sleeping in the room, and the nanny fell asleep on the sofa. She was awakened by the sound of the door opening and sat up with sleepy eyes.

Casey smiled at her embarrassedly: "I'm sorry I came back so late..."

The nanny is a kind-hearted old lady, Mrs. Walker, but her body is really tough. Her hearty smile interrupted Kathy's words: "What are you talking about, I live next door, open and close the door, and I'm alone My old lady has a lovely child like Carl to accompany me, which is something I can't even ask for."

After Kathy sent Mrs. Walker home—that is, the next door—Dino was taking off his coat and asked, "Where's the old nanny in your house? Is the very young one called Lily or Lucy or something?"

Kathy shrugged: "She can't accept that I always come home in the middle of the night, she's just a young girl who needs a life of her own."

Dino hung up his clothes, heard that he sat next to Casey, and naturally put his arms on the sofa behind him: "Why didn't you tell me?"

But Kathy didn't take it seriously: "What's there to say about this kind of thing? And Mrs. Walker offered to help me take care of Carl. At the beginning, she didn't even accept money. She just accepted it. She liked Carl always doing it for him. Little Biscuit, I feel relieved that she takes care of Carl."

Dino's eyes were dark, he stretched out his hand to catch Casey's chin and turned his face to himself: "You know I like you, don't you?"

This layer of window paper, which was already crumbling but extremely stubborn, was finally pierced by Dino in the middle of the night.

Dino originally thought that at this time, Casey would be surprised and at a loss, and he would even want to run away, but he didn't expect that when this moment came, Casey would be so calm, so peaceful that his heart felt like It's as cold as being submerged in ice water.

Casey did not avoid Dino's hand on his chin, and those blue eyes penetrated deeply into Dino's heart: "Dino, you are a good partner, and I like you very much, so I Please, don't force me."

Don't make me tear open the scars I've pretended to be healed to reveal the blood dripping inside.

Don't force me to show my nakedness to another person.

Don't force me to regain the ability to love someone, and don't force me to learn to rely on others, which I haven't learned in 20 years.

I beg you.

When Casey stood up and went to Carl's room to see him, Dino's deep voice sounded behind him, with a deep sense of frustration: "Just...give me a reason?"

"I'm sleeping with Carl today. You can go to the master bedroom. The quilts are all packed." Casey paused, turned her head slightly, and said softly, "Good night, Dino."