Days passed.

Everything looked calm on the surface.

Beneath the surface, however, something was brewing.

On the fourth day, a black car pulled up to the police station entrance.

Jason emerged, his face etched with a dark scowl.

He took a deep breath before entering the building.

An officer stood guard outside a visitation room where Nicholas and Jason met.

"Mr. Novak—" Jason began, but Nicholas cut him off. "You don't have to say anything, Mr. Derullere.

1 understand.

I've told the police repeatedly that I acted alone.

No one else is involved.

Regardless of the sentence, I won't appeal." Jason clenched his jaw.

As he hesitated, Nicholas continued, his voice weak, "That being said, before everything is finalized, I'd like to see Mr.

Schmidt one last time.

I need to ask him in person."

Novak, Mr.

is an

again," Jason said

Jameson's name

lips together, his fingers curling

Schmidt himself." Jason closed the distance between himself and Nicholas, and his tone

believes

you may go

to the necessary arrangements for your

your wife..." He left the

Nicholas's heart plummeted.

crimes and

unforeseen circumstances." With that, Jason rose to

nod before exiting the

alone, his body rigid, eyes

him

police station, his expression

his phone

read, "Mr. Derullere, Mr. Beckett is aware

perhaps meet you in private?" Those

50-year- old

moment later, he received

somewhere

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