My Billionaire Husband

Since yesterday, in less than 24 hours, Jimmy had thought of Kate countless times. No matter whether he was busy or idle, whenever there was a second, the idea of her would come buzzing to him like a fly.

Moving backward in his memory, since early this year, no, last autumn, when he met her with that guy, he kept thinking of her. He worried that she wasn't happy, worried that the man didn't treat her nice.

As he knew, few people were really happy, even in the same situation as Kate's.

And he saw her closely yesterday. She hadn't lost weight. She was wearing decent clothing and was going to school.

It seemed that Tristan Fox was treating her nicely. However, she hadn't changed a lot. Her air was different, with something more for a man to look at and memorize and reflect upon. She was, simply put, more feminine.

It wasn't his imagination.

Then Jimmy had a strong feeling. It was jealousy. He was jealous of Tristan Fox.

In the past few months, he tried to persuade himself that it was her own choice and he should support her, as they were friends. Weren't they?

But the truth was, she wasn't just a friend to him.

Linda said he didn't know about relationsh.i.p.s.

That was why he missed it.

He missed it so carelessly, and it made him unwilling to admit that he had missed it already.

The phone rang and interrupted his thoughts. Claire was quicker than him and picked up the phone.

After a few yes and OK's, she put down the phone and walked to Jimmy. "Jimmy, they found a body in the seaside."

Jimmy frowned and said, "You report it to the Captain first."

Claire stuck out her tongue and ran to the Captain's office. Soon she ran back again and said, "Captain said you could take us to see it."

Jimmy raised his eyebrows, "We? Did you finish editing my report?"

Claire nodded hastily. She was full of expectation but also had a little resentment. Because she was a girl, the paperwork was always thrown to her.

Among the few rookies, she was the one who graduated with the highest scores.

Jimmy was reluctant to take her, but he took up his coat from the chair and said, "OK. Let's go. Ask Bill to come again."

Claire was cheerful and waved to the guy in the corner, "Bill, let's go."

The body was found on the shore of a nearby island. When one of the inhabitants walked his dog, it had detected the stench and run to a pile of rocks. The body was inside a sack among the rocks.

When they got there, the local police had pulled the warning line, and some of the inhabitants were watching outside. When the car stopped, Claire ran immediately to the site, but after just a few seconds, she turned back and retched.

Bill laughed at her, but he wasn't feeling much better. He took one look and walked away feeling sick.

Jimmy wasn't surprised at this kind of scene. He got close to the rotten corpse and walked around it, took some pictures and notes, identified a few important things, and then asked for the corpse to be shipped to the coroner for autopsy.

At the weekend, Kate went to some bookstores to buy a few reference books. She stood in front of the shelf of economy and finance and picked among the books.

She had so concentrated on the books that when she turned around, she bumped into someone. She apologized hastily, but her last word dried up when she saw the person she was speaking to. It was Jimmy.

It had been a week since she encountered him last.

She had made up her mind to say goodbye to the past. It took her great trouble to squeeze her bitterness and despair and all the memories about him into a small box and shove it to the darkest corner of her heart.

Seeing him again was like suddenly opening the closed box again.

She opened her mouth and tried to ask calmly, "You are buying books?"

Jimmy looked at her for a few seconds silently, and then he put a finger in his mouth to tell her to keep silent. Then he pulled her satchel on her shoulder and opened it.

Kate didn't know what he was doing, but she trusted him thoroughly and kept silent.

She saw him take out her cell phone from her bag, unloaded the battery, and checked it carefully, and then he put it back in her satchel.

And then he said to her in a very low voice, "I came to see you."

Kate was surprised. And he said in an even lower voice, "I think I have a lead on Caroline's case."

***

It was a man's body, between 25 and 30 years old. The time of death was determined to be about one year ago. After soaking in seawater and rotting on the ground for so long, there were no facial characteristics to be identified.

The forensic team attempted to reconstruct the image of his head face on the computer. They also checked the missing people's personal records and had used a DNA test to identify the dead body.

The body was confirmed to be that of Henry Texton, a man from Utah who worked in the Chasin Group Networking Center. Texton was fired for indulging in gambling and online games on the company network.

Jimmy learned from his colleague that after Henry left Chasin, he had trouble finding a permanent job. He had worked as a technical manager for an Internet café for some time. He lived with his girlfriend in a rented house.

The address sounded familiar to Jimmy. He suddenly thought of another person who lived there too. A few names came together in his mind.

Jimmy took out a picture of Caroline and showed it to Henry's colleague, and asked him if that was Henry's girlfriend. He nodded and said yes. He added with a little embarrassment that he only saw her once, but he could recognize her because she was so pretty.

Jimmy took a picture of Henry to the address where Caroline and Henry had lived. The house there had already been demolished. Luckily, he found the woman he met last time who had been collecting the garbage. She looked at the picture of Henry and nodded vigorously, confirming his identity as Caroline's "husband."

The stairway to the last floor of the bookstore was a place few people would pass by. Jimmy took Kate there and asked her, "Do you know Caroline had a boyfriend?"

Kate shook her head, "I don't know. We had not contacted each other for over a year."

"They disappeared at the same time."

"Oh."

"We just found her boyfriend's body." Jimmy looked at Kate and said slowly and distinctly, "Gunshot in the head, body tossed into the sea."

"He was a staff member at Chasin Group."

Before Kate could react, Jimmy asked immediately, "The one who kidnapped you, is he from Chasin Group?"

Kate stopped breathing. Jimmy continued, "It is not because of money that you are with Fox; it is because you are forced to, isn't it?"

Panic flashed on Kate's face.

Jimmy saw her reaction and knew his conjecture was right. He grabbed her hand in excitement and regret, saying, "Kate, I misunderstood you, didn't I?"

"No," Kate thought of his threatening immediately and denied it instinctually. Kate averted her gaze, "I am with him because he helped me…"

"Oh?"

"Max fought with somebody outside the school and injured a guy. He was blackmailed…"

Jimmy frowned at her words, "Last October?"

Kate nodded in a trance.

"You approached him?"

Kate paused. She could not tell Jimmy that she went to be an escort for money.

Jimmy said, "They approached you?"

Kate could not say anything. Jimmy inferred himself, "It was so strange. You know, they intercepted your phone. They knew everything about you. But," he suddenly changed his mind, "since they had done so many things, does it ever occur to you that the whole thing might be a scheme?"

Jimmy's inference again made Kate feel dumbfounded. Obviously, she had never thought of this.

Her phone in the bag vibrated and scared the hell out of her. She took it out and saw the name "Ed." He must be impatiently waiting outside. She looked to Jimmy.

He nodded, "Answer it."

Kate gave it a thought and walked a few steps away from Jimmy, and pressed on. The voice sounded merry, "You know where I am now?"

She was startled and heard him said, "I am in LACC. Your brother is with me."

She recalled that Ed didn't come with her today. It was Sam who had driven her here.

The voice turned gloomy, "I heard that you are with the policeman now. Did you forget what I told you?" And then he said, "Your brother wanted to talk with you."

And then it changed to Max. "Kate? What are you going to tell me?"

"Kate, are you there?"

Kate took a long time to find her own voice. She said drily, "I am in the bookstore. I want to ask you if you need any books."

"Oh. I thought it was something important. No. Thank you."

And the phone was returned to Ed. She said with a low voice, "Don't touch my brother."

The voice turned merry again, "It is your decision, Kate."

After Kate hung up, she took her time to compose herself, put her phone back in her satchel, and turned to Jimmy, "I have to go now. I need to go back."

"Back to that guy?" Jimmy's voice was full of some unknown emotion.

"What else can I do?" Kate looked at him and asked seriously, "Can you arrest him immediately?"

Jimmy paused and said, "We have to report first and then wait for the approval to open a case…"

Kate was disappointed inside, "So I have to go back. And it would be best if you could get justice for Caroline, but," she paused again, "I cannot be a witness."

Jimmy frowned, "You don't trust me?"

She smiled sadly and said softly, "I trust you. But I only trust you."