Elizabeth hurried to follow him. “Can I come with you?”
Luke said without looking back, “This is your case in the first place. Were you planning on hiding in the back?” Hearing that, Elizabeth happily followed him into the mansion.
In fact, although it was her case, Elsa had asked Luke to investigate it.
Elsa had previously hinted to Elizabeth that as long as she worked hard when she was with Luke, he wouldn’t wrong her. Elizabeth had been slightly confused by that back then.
At first, she thought that Luke would give her guidance in return for the dirty work that she would have to do for him. However, after a few cases, she realized that she had been overthinking things.
After closing her cases with a lot of help from Luke, she gave him the reports, but Luke simply took out mention of his involvement from them.
That way, Elizabeth and her partner took full credit for those cases.
She had been quite uneasy when she handed in her first report to Elsa, but Elsa had simply said, “Keep it up, and listen to Luke.”
Elizabeth immediately got it. Luke wasn’t interested in taking credit for solving a case, and was simply focused on cracking them. Of course, Elizabeth knew why he was so self-assured; it was because he was the most efficient detective in the Major Crimes Division.
Luke didn’t really need the credit, while Elizabeth and her partner would certainly remember the favor.
Luke was too lazy to claim credit for Elizabeth’s cases.
Besides, the system gave him experience and credit points when Elizabeth’s cases were solved, which was good enough for him.
In recent days, Elizabeth had been energetically carrying out tasks for Luke.
For example, she could’ve spent five hours looking into the man, and nobody would fault her for it. However, she finished the task in an hour.
After Luke and Elizabeth came in, Elizabeth obediently greeted Selina.
Her goal was to become a competent female detective just like Selina.
Of course, it would be even better if she could have a male partner like Luke.
Luke brought Thomson to the garden. He showed him the recorder he was holding and said, “I’m going to record our conversation. Is that okay with you?”
Thomson frowned and hesitated for a moment, but noticing the odd look on Jennifer’s face, he could only nod and say, “Of course.”
Luke said, “Very good. Let’s get started. What’s your relationship with Manny like?”
Stumped for a moment, Thomson said sadly, “We’re quite close. I think we’re friends.”
Luke: “Oh? What kind of friends? Friends who only say hi in passing, friends who can talk, or friends that are even closer?”
Thomson: “We talk now and then. After all, we both work here.”
Luke: “Where were you after twelve last night?”
Thomson: “In my room, sleeping.”
Luke: “As the head of security, you don’t have to patrol at night?”
Thomson: “We have two shifts. I wasn’t on duty last night.”
Luke: “So, you weren’t in Manny’s room last night?”
Thomson looked rather tense, but he still said calmly, “No.”
Luke nodded and said, “Okay, you can take a break.”
Suddenly, Luke’s phone rang.
He looked at the number and walked off to one side. He talked over the phone for a while and looked at Thomson, who had just gotten up.
Thomson, who had been uneasy in the first place, became even more so. Bewildered for a moment, he finally stepped away. However, he couldn’t help but turn his head to look at Luke several times as he went on his way.
Luke had been staring at him while talking on his phone.
Thomson’s heart was heavy. He had a bad feeling
In fact, the call Luke received wasn’t entirely about Thomson.
The call was from Elsa. Morgan hadn’t been able to withstand the pressure, and had confessed.
Morgan confessed a lot of things, but they weren’t very important.
After Luke found the bloodstain evidence, Elsa found even more solid evidence from the surveillance footage brought to her.
Jennifer’s mansion in Beverly Hills had a lot of surveillance cameras.
Morgan had been a security guard for a long time, and had planned it all out when he attacked.
However, Luke’s arrival this morning had been outside his expectations, and something went seriously wrong when he tried to shift the blame to Thomson.
After examining the footage, Elsa found that all the security guards had alibis except for Thomson and Morgan.
Therefore, it could’ve only been Thomson or Morgan who had the opportunity to kill Manny.
Jennifer wasn’t a suspect. Unless she had super abilities, she didn’t have the strength to make a dent in Manny’s skull.
She wasn’t an action movie star, and she worked out only to maintain her figure, not to increase her strength.
Since Jennifer had been talking to Thomson when the crime happened, Morgan was the prime suspect. However, Morgan couldn’t be convicted on the footage alone. After all, nobody could prove that the five security guards and Jennifer were the only people in the house, and it was possible that someone else had snuck in.
The blood pattern analysis, however, was the turning point. The bloodstain which Old Greyson had taken note of could have only been caused by hitting the victim with a stick. With the two pieces of evidence, Morgan couldn’t get away, not without the best lawyer.
Moreover, he had been in the interrogation room, and had no idea that Manny was already dead.
So, he thought that it was only an assault, and had no idea that it had turned into a murder. After Morgan pleaded guilty, he confessed a lot of things, including why he had attacked Manny.
He claimed that it was in retaliation because Manny had injured Millis first. Only the three women had been in the house last night. Jennifer liked Millis, who was younger and better. It was highly unlikely that she would kill Millis.
It was more likely that Manny had done it, fearing that Millis would replace her.
Besides, it was also Manny who had found Millis unconscious in the living room.
But after hearing what Elsa said, and recalling the files he had read, Luke understood where Morgan was coming from.
Both maids had a special relationship with Jennifer. It was possible that one of them had attacked the other out of jealousy.
If Luke didn’t have Sharp Nose, he might’ve also believed that Manny was a suspect. However, with Sharp Nose, he knew that it was Thomson who had attacked Millis.