Tangled in His Obsession

Chapter 284

Hearing this, Seraphina was instantly taken aback, and Leandro also furrowed his brows slightly.

Seraphina glanced at the frantic and desperate Herman, then at Leandro, realizing that Leandro might know who Herman’s mentor was, and gently pulled on his sleeve, “Who is it?”

Leandro turned his head and looked at her. Although his expression was calm, it was not an indifferent attitude.

Herman’s mentor, of course, was someone from the police department.

Back when Herman had just graduated from the police academy and was still a rookie, he started to work on cases with his mentor Naylor.

Naylor had a wealth of experience in handling cases and had a very cheerful personality. He had a good relationship with everyone in the police station and was willing to teach newbies, so Herman directly acknowledged him as his mentor after working with him for a short period of time.

From the time Herman was a junior officer to now as a team leader, their relationship was like father and son, never changed.

Now, Naylor had been promoted but still worked in the same police station as Herman, and they saw each other every day, without anything unusual ever happening.

Naylor always respected the law, despised evil, and had never even made a small mistake, let alone committing such a heinous crime that openly challenges the law and human rights.

Even if Herman suspected everyone in the world to be a criminal, he would never doubt him.

But today…

He had stayed up all night last night and rushed to the hospital this morning, waiting wholeheartedly for Maddox to wake up and give his statement in person, so he didn’t leave at noon either, he just went back to his car and took a nap.

Because he was troubled, his sleep was not sound. He unintentionally opened his eyes and seemed to see a familiar figure.

When he woke up to take a closer look, the figure had disappeared into the hospital building.

Herman thought he was seeing things and quickly withdrew his gaze.

But not long after, his phone suddenly rang. He answered the call, it was a colleague telling him that Maddox’s condition had suddenly – deteriorated and was undergoing emergency treatment.

Herman immediately woke up, jumped out of the car, and rushed into the hospital building.

He was anxious and didn’t wait for the elevator, so he rushed up the stairs.

Maddox’s ward was on the 12th floor, but in his haste, he was running with his head down and accidentally ran up to the 13th floor.

In the stairwell of the 13th floor, he saw Naylor smoking at the corner of the stairs.

“Sir?” Herman was stunned for a moment, “What are you doing here?”

Naylor saw him, just slightly raised his eyebrows, the cigarette in his hand swaying slightly, and slowly said, “I’m here to visit a patient, just taking a smoke break. What are you doing here?”

After saying that, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and answered his own question, “Is it about Maddox’s case? What’s the situation now?”

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“He was supposed to wake up, but his condition has suddenly worsened.” Herman quickly answered, ready to rush to the ward, and saw the number on the wall, only then did he realize he had run to the wrong floor, and turned around and went back down the stairs.

Naylor quickly put out the cigarette in his hand and also followed him down. This content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.

Both of them arrived at Maddox’s ward at the same time, only to meet the doctor who had just finished the CPR, announcing the news of Maddox’s death.

“It seems that your mentor didn’t do anything suspicious.” Seraphina said.

Herman lowered his eyes and said, “I don’t believe that Maddox’s condition would suddenly worsen, so I asked the duty officer if anyone other than the doctor had entered the ward. He said no, but I wasn’t satisfied, so I went to check the surveillance video.”

However, when he went to check the surveillance video on the 12th floor, he was told that the surveillance on the 12th floor had just malfunctioned yesterday and had not been repaired yet.

Herman was highly alert, so he quickly checked the elevator surveillance video.

In a surveillance video full of strangers, people’s eyes would inadvertently focus on the people they are familiar with.

When Naylor’s figure appeared in the elevator, Herman’s gaze naturally fell on him.

There were only three people in the elevator, and the first two each pressed the floor they wanted to go to, and Naylor also pressed the floor he wanted to go to.

It was a very natural move, he pressed the 12th floor.

Seeing this, Herman slightly furrowed his brows.

The next moment, Naylor seemed to realize something and pressed the 13th floor.

It was as if he had pressed the 12th floor by mistake, or it was a slip of the hand.

When the elevator stopped on the 12th floor, Naylor did not leave until the elevator reached the 13th floor, then he walked out of the elevator.

He went up to the 13th floor, out of Herman’s surveillance range, so Herman immediately continued to check the other people who went up to the 12th floor.

However, after watching the relevant time period of the video, he did not find any suspicious persons.

He was unwilling to accept the result of Maddox dying by accident.

But if Maddox did not die accidentally but was murdered for the second time, it must be the work of that criminal group.

But he had already announced Maddox’s death, and only a few people knew that Maddox was actually still alive. How did that person get the news, and even rushed to the hospital to kill Maddox?

Numerous possibilities flashed through Herman’s mind, and in the end, he decided to recheck the elevator surveillance video.

This time, when he saw Naylor, he suddenly paused.

Besides him, among those who knew that Maddox was still alive, Naylor was also among them.

After watching the surveillance of Naylor going up to the 13th floor, Herman checked the surveillance on the 13th floor again.

He saw Naylor walk out of the elevator and head directly towards the stairwell.

Why would someone who just got out of the elevator go to the stairwell?

At that moment, Herman’s mind went blank. There were no cameras in the stairwell, he couldn’t see anything.

He couldn’t confirm whether Naylor went up or down, or whether he just smoked quietly in the stairwell.

About ten minutes later, Naylor appeared again in the hallway of the 13th floor.

He went to the restroom once, and when he reappeared, he walked into the stairwell.

Herman checked the time and found that it was only two minutes before he was told that Maddox’s condition had worsened.

Then he hurriedly ran upstairs, only to run into Naylor smoking in the stairwell.

His mind was a total mess, and then he went to question the cop on duty at the time. He found out that the officer had gone to the washroom just before Maddox’s condition worsened, but the whole ordeal shouldn’t have taken more than five minutes.

But just a short while after those five minutes, Maddox was dead!

Herman was so pissed he wanted to punch someone, but he held back.

Maybe it was all just a coincidence? Maybe Maddox was just down on his luck and died because his condition suddenly got worse?

“That makes sense.”

After hearing Herman’s story and watching the surveillance footage, Seraphina suddenly chimed in.

Herman stared at her wide-eyed, “What?”

“I’ve been trying to figure out how much of a mastermind Maddox could really be, to orchestrate such a perfect accident without leaving a trace.” Seraphina scoffed, “But it’s clear now. It’s not that his plan was so flawless, but…there’s someone behind him cleaning up his mess. I think we both know who that is, don’t we?”