A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 862 Shameless!

Rae nodded while thinking that she could do it herself too! As his friend, she could definitely accompany him to overcome those obstacles!

Being blurred about what Rae had said before, she could only nod and admit, “Raphael, I wouldn’t change my promise!”

Raphael was clearly stunned upon hearing those words, his expression turned even strange before he smiled softly, “Rae, you have said before that if you couldn’t find your love and I can’t either, you will marry me when I am thirty years old!”

Rae was stunned, but inside, she secretly blamed Rae for her promise. ‘Didn’t she too easily make a promise?’

But she was Natalie! She couldn’t do it!

But now, she couldn’t say anything! She could only laugh bitterly, “Oh really?”

“Are you going to deny it?”

“No!” Rae shook her head.

“Then good!” Raphael stared at Rae who nodded her head thoughtfully, “Well, is the promise still working?”

Rae looked at Raphael who was full with expectations in his eyes, and surprisingly she could not say anything to refuse.

“Thank you, Rae! If you need me one day, I will do anything for you!”

She looked at the sudden determination in his eyes and whispered, “Raphael, I am not doing this for anything!”

“I know!” He suddenly reached out his hand and held her hands tightly.

Rae tried to break free from him but his grip was too tight.

“The Gill’s Group might face something recently and there is something that cannot be hidden behind! If my father hurt Joanna, I’m sure that Officer Hopkins won’t let him off the hook! If he didn’t, I think you and Officer Hopkins would definitely get his innocence back! Go back now and I really have to go back to the office!”

Rae nodded gently. “I hope it’s not the old master Gill!”

She was still in deep thought when she returned to her apartment. She hurried to get her interrogation records back when thinking that it was still in the interrogation room but then she was stopped by a shout.

“There is no need to go! I’ve already brought over the interrogation records for you!”

It was naturally Marcel’s voice.

Rae was very embarrassed and self-condemned as she was afraid that she was going to be criticized again!

She blushed slightly and turned her head to gaze at the man behind her. There seemed to have a lofty and inscrutable aura inside his handsome and airy face while with a hint of insightful acumen.

“Captain Hopkins!” She was ready to be criticized.

Who knew Captain Hopkins left her a sentence. “Come to my office!”

“Yes!” She hurriedly followed his footsteps.

There was a strong smell of coffee when she entered Marcel’s office. She was stunned when she saw a delicate coffee cup on his desk that was smelling good that seemed to be just brewed!

Rae looked at it a few more times which was then naturally noticed by Marcel as he sat down in his chair and pushed his coffee cup forward. “Do you want to have a cup?”

Rae hurriedly shook her head, “No, I don’t love coffee!”

Marcel frowned, then picked up the coffee and took a sip. Seemingly still reminiscing, he then cleared his mouth and frowned, seeming to be very dissatisfied with the taste of the coffee.

“Sit down!”

Rae hurriedly sat down on the sofa, and at this time Marcel said, “What did Raphael say to you just now?”

He asked so directly that it made Rae who was not prepared well, froze for a moment as she couldn’t say anything! She had promised Raphael, but she was frightened and didn’t open her mouth to answer for a while when facing Marcel’s sharp and serious eyes.

Marcel’s face was no longer friendly as before with some displeasure shown in his eyebrow. He lowered his head and shook his coffee cup, “Rae, I have roughly guessed what did Raphael say. So, whether you say it or not, I have already expected it! But if you want to tell me, you can get a good performance, if not, I can understand you too! However, I will make things harder for you!”

Rae knew what Marcel meant and she said hurriedly in an eager voice, “Actually, there is really nothing! Raphael said that he appreciated me for trusting him and that we are the best of confidants!”

“Confidants?” Marcel thought about the words and smiled suddenly. “I believe what he told you about this, but, is there anything else?”

Biting the corner of her lips until it turned pale, Rae then spoke weakly, “Nothing, what was said is all about the personal matters between him and me. We don’t even mention those words during the interrogation again!” Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

Marcel looked at her steadily. Yet, her death-like expression made his eyes dazzle like stars that made people suppress!

“Talking about personal matters? Rae, are you trying to fool me?”

Rae was stunned while shaking her head with an expressionless face. “I don’t! Captain Hopkins, you don’t bluff me either!”

Marcel’s eyes turned serious.

‘What a friendship-oriented woman! She dared to lie for the sake of her childhood friend! She could give up her job for her friends! I really didn’t know if this was a strength or a weakness of hers!’

Rae was so embarrassed by his stare that she turned her face to meet the complex emotions in his eyes. Was it an illusion? Why did Captain Hopkins look at herself with such complicated eyes?

To be seen clearly, there were no complex emotions in his eyes but a pair of sharp and serious eyes that made others scared!

“Rae!” Marcel finally spoke with his low voice, “If I didn’t expect wrongly, Raphael must have confessed to you! Last night, he met his father at Joanna’s residence at NY Villa!”

She was startled again while still allowing herself to remain expressionless and didn’t say anything.

“The reason he confessed to you is because he is afraid that you would leave him behind when the truth is revealed! Yet, both of you wouldn’t even have to be friends! Now that he has confessed to you and gained your trust, you’re already foolish enough that you almost become an accomplice for him! What a treacherous businessman!”

“Raphael is not that kind of person!” Rae immediately spoke up for him!

Marcel’s eyes turned serious with his cold eyes now making him look even colder, like an emotionless judge who examined Rae. “You have lied, Rae. I have given you a chance to think clearly before you tell me what Raphael had told you! You have held back and I hope that you would take care of the whole situation but you keep dwelling on your personal feelings which really makes me disappointed!”

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Rae didn’t make any explanation, instead, she just pursed her lips and sitting there without speaking.

Marcel raised his eyebrows slightly while silently gazing at the woman who looked incredibly calm in front of him.

In the end, she didn’t say anything. She just kept her head down as she didn’t know how she had become this way! Raphael did not want her to say that and she could actually abandon her job for her friend! But she couldn’t betray her friends! Especially Raphael who had treated her more intimately than siblings, more intensely than lovers and he has always treated her well, how could she betray him? Therefore, she could only remain silent.

Marcel said again, “Don’t you have anything to say?”

Rae knew that Marcel was still giving herself a chance, so she barely managed to steady her emotions and whispered, “I have nothing much to say, Captain Hopkins!”

Her death-defying expression was incredibly cute in Marcel’s eyes. She really made him speechless!

“Alright then!” Marcel’s tone was calm and he said in a deep voice, “How about transferring you to the archives section?”

Rae’s eyes instantly widened as soon as she heard that. Her heart ached uncontrollably and her dark eyes were filled with an unconcealed shock. She then asked him with strong disbelief, “Must I be transferred?”

This was the job she loved!

Apart from the fact that she had changed her identity to take over Rae to go and live with her family to investigate Leonard, the matter of hiding something from Marcel today was one of the two heartless things she had done in her life! She felt she was really a good person, yet, she was reluctant to be let go because of her concealment today.

“Rae, you are no longer suitable for the criminal investigation side. I think both of us understand Marcel said coldly, leaving no room for manoeuvre.

Rae laughed bitterly with her nails pierced into her hand inch by inch, but she couldn’t feel the pain anymore, she just said with infinite sadness, “If Captain Hopkins really wants to do that, I’ll admit it!”

Marcel was startled as he didn’t expect such an outcome with the words coming out from her!

He could see how much Rae loved this job, she was full of passion and dedicated, yet, she was rarely a good detective! But she was also a sensual woman!

Marcel almost stood up when she said that. He tried desperately to control his emotions and did not speak for a long time.

After a while, he suddenly said, “There is another way that you don’t need to be transferred to the archives section!”

Rae immediately looked up and asked in an eager tone, “What?”

He stared into her eyes, looking into the deepest part of her eyes and said, “Play by my rules, be my woman!”

She froze, suddenly biting her lip and not saying anything.

Marcel was still staring at her, “I know how much you love this job, so you can think about it!”

“Aren’t you afraid that I’ll sue you?” Her voice was full of anger.

Marcel shrugged, “I am not afraid! You are not beautiful enough and with such excellent qualities that I have, leaders would only say that you are slanderous! Don’t you think so?”

Rae bit her lips and tears appeared in her big eyes. She bit the corner of her lip so stubbornly that it bled and the tears rolled down uncontrollably. He was too much of a bully! Obviously he molested someone and he still said that someone else coveted his beauty, what a shameless man!”

Marcel was silent, with his heroic eyebrows locked that he stared at her tear-stained face while pondering deeply.

After a long time, he said in a very indecent tone, “I’ve never known what it is like to have a woman cried beautifully but now I have seen it! Rae, you are crying so beautifully! Don’t stop and keep shedding your tears! Let me see what it is to be as beautiful as a fairy!”

“You…” She was so angry that her tears shed even more, she had never thought that her beloved man would be such a person, he was simply playing with her!

She knew he was doing it purposely, but she couldn’t stop her tears. She sniffled and tried to shrink those tears back, but she couldn’t control them at all! She was so angry that she simply cried again!

“Tut, tut, tut…” Marcel sighed audibly while gazing at the woman sitting in the office sofa. Her stubbornly straight back like an upright pine that was strong enough to carry the strength to resist the ice and snow.