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.

to ask him in

Novak, Mr.

is an important

you again," Jason

Jameson's name

lips together, his fingers curling

from Mr. Schmidt himself." Jason closed the distance between himself

believes that you will never get to see the light

light of this, you

to the necessary arrangements for

wife..." He left the

Nicholas's heart plummeted.

you accept full responsibility for your crimes and face the consequences, Mr. Schmidt will ensure your wife's

cannot guarantee her safety from unforeseen circumstances." With that, Jason rose to

offered Nicholas a curt nod before exiting the visitation

his body rigid,

threatened to consume him as his

exited the police station, his expression

approached his car, his

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

in private?" Those

this 50-year- old man well

moment later, he received

was somewhere

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