As the case hadn't been completely solved yet, Jefferson still had the title of the captain of the special investigation team. Therefore, no one could stop him if he wanted to go with them. Quill naturally welcomed him. "Captain Hefner, it's best if you can go with us."
Jefferson ignored him and Quill didn't feel embarrassed either. Quill got into the passenger seat of the police car and turned to Jefferson, who was sitting at the back seat, reporting, "Captain Hefner, the murderer is also a ferocious person. We didn't manage to ask the truth about the location of the heads of the deceased where he had hidden out of him until this noon."
"Shut up!" Jefferson responded. He did not care about how they interrogated the murderer at all. What he was concerned about at this moment was Adrienne, because she acted so oddly as if she did not know that he had come.
Jefferson hit her by his elbow with force. He heard Adrienne snort in pain and asked her, "Adrienne, what are you thinking about? Can't you see that I'm here?"
Adrienne was in pain; only then did she come back to her senses from her thoughts and saw Jefferson before her eyes. She was still a little confused and questioned, "W-why are you here?"
Sure enough, she did not see him as she was thinking about other stuff.
Jefferson yelled at her furiously, "Adrienne, what did I tell you before?"
Adrienne was dumbfounded. "What?"
She had to remember every word he said. Did he really regard his words as an imperial edict?
Jefferson pinched Adrienne's chin and informed her rudely, "If you dare to think about anything else when you are with me, I will come at you at any time."
This sentence left a deep impression on Adrienne. He always threatened her in this way no matter what happened, but she did not see him really do anything to her. Adrienne was a little disdainful. "What did I do wrong to provoke you again, Mr. Hefner?"
"What were you thinking just now?" Jefferson asked, raising his eyebrows.
Adrienne answered, "What I was thinking has nothing to do with you. Could you please find some other things to do? Don't always appear before my eyes and pester me, okay?"
"It has nothing to do with me?" Upon hearing this, Jefferson's anger rose instantly. "Adrienne, don't forget that you are my legal wife."
Adrienne was at a loss for words. "You..."
She really couldn't refute it because it was the fact even if she was unwilling to admit this identity at all.
Quill, who was at the front row, pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation in the back seat. The first time he saw Jefferson, he knew that the relationship between him and Adrienne was unusual, but he did not know that they had reached such an intimate state.
Quill vaguely remembered that Adrienne wrote that she was single on the employment form. That would imply that she got married to Jefferson after she started working. Why didn't they announce it to the public?
Quill really wanted to look at the back, but he dared not do so due to Jefferson's prestige. Thus, he could only let his imagination run wild... Then, he heard Jefferson saying, "Quill, you should know what you can hear and what you shouldn't hear, right?"
Quill responded quickly, "Captain Hefner, don't worry about me. I didn't hear anything just now." "Are you dumb?" Jefferson scoffed. Quill asked again, "Captain Hefner, should I have heard what you just said?"
Jefferson criticized, "You're really a good-for-nothing!"
He wanted Quill to spread the news, but Quill wanted to keep his mouth shut. Ralph often said Quill was a smart man, but he was obviously just a good-for-nothing. How could he be a wise man?
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