The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 759

"Julian!"

"Juli..."

Four voices rang out in unison.

Sadie squeezed out a feeble note from her throat, her half-closed eyes widening ever so slightly.

She wasn't faring much better than Julian, and it was a miracle she had held on this long. But now, seeing her husband collapsed, she couldn't catch her breath. Her legs gave way, and she, too, started to fall! Thankfully, Percival and Vivienne were quick to catch them.

Otherwise, with the slick floors of the police station, the elderly couple would've surely broken bones!

Kaitlyn's eyes were ablaze with fury, her dry tears sticking to the corners of her eyes, causing a stinging pain, "Rafferty, my in-laws haven't been convicted yet. Are you trying to make this a case of death without evidence?!"

Rafferty was also taken aback. He wasn't the one who had arrested them; he had only checked in on them during a shift change.

Back then, the elderly couple was sitting quietly in the holding cell, clearly frightened, but otherwise in good spirits. How did things turn so dire so quickly?

His sharp, eagle-like gaze turned to the junior officer beside him, his eyes filled with inquiry, "What's going on here?!"

"I... I don't know," stammered the junior officer, shivering.

Sure, he usually hung around the deputy chief, but everyone knew about Rafferty's uncompromising integrity. If Rafferty found out that he had deliberately lowered the air conditioning to make the suspects uncomfortable, his career here would be over!

for some direction. But ever since Percival showed up, her eyes had been fixed

late into the night, her makeup was

junior officer thought, "Seriously? You're swooning over a guy at

surveillance footage?" Vivienne's hands moved away from the old couple's wrists, her icy stare shifting from the junior officer to Sophie and then back to Rafferty. "Captain Rafferty, is your police station's air conditioning so cold that i can knock

cool, "And who might this grandma be? She's capable of taking people out of your station? I

was this person? No manners

thirty, how did

Kipling caught sight of Sophie, the muscles on

know

everyone interjecting here? You've all conspired with Rafferty, trying to get

I won't let this go! This old geezer killed my daughter, and I'll make sure he pays

wait! Tomorrow I'm reporting you to the higher-ups for collusion! Just wait to be dismissed!" Vivienne glanced at the

she turned back to Kaitlyn, and they helped the elderly couple onto a bench, pulling out a small pill bottle, "Give them these pills for now. It's nothing serious, just the combination of their

is this?! The holding cell is completely sealed, how could

for our junior

squinted, following Sophie's transfixed

behind her, his gentle eyes lighting up with a smile at the sight of Vivienne,

team. The dark red fabric sprinkled with gold dust accentuated Percival's usually stern

would have pounced on her Mr. Wolf without

her first glimpse of him made her

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