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.

need to ask him in

Novak, Mr.

is an

be meeting with you again," Jason said in a

of Jameson's name sent

lips together, his fingers curling

today with a message from Mr. Schmidt himself." Jason closed the distance between himself and Nicholas, and his

numerous crimes, and he believes that you will never get to see the

light of this, you may go in

will see to the necessary

wife..." He left the

Nicholas's heart plummeted.

your crimes and

her safety from unforeseen circumstances." With

offered Nicholas a curt nod before exiting

his

consume him as his

police station,

he approached his car, his phone pinged with a

Derullere, Mr. Beckett is

he perhaps meet you in private?" Those words

they made this 50-year- old man well

later, he received a message

somewhere

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