Three years later.

It was a sunny afternoon. Jimmy was sitting on a couch and flipped through a magazine. Chatting and giggling in low voices came from the fitting room.

After a long time, the door was opened, and a bright white light shone into the room.

Jimmy raised his eyes from the magazine and could not help exclaiming.

It was stunning.

Just imagine a woman who had never shown up in front of you in a dress suddenly wore a dress and not an ordinary dress, and the result was totally beyond your expectation… Jimmy was dizzy for a moment.

"History of love?"

"Right."

Two minutes later, Jimmy got back to the couch, and his cousin widened her inquisitive eyes and urged him, "Come on. You will have to tell the wedding anyway."

Jimmy raised his eyebrows and said, "Then you will hear about the wedding."

"No," Shirley shook his arm and said, "I am your cousin. I need to know before others."

His cousin was his fan when they were children. Now she was studying abroad, and this time she came back to be the maid of honor. Her badgering wore Jimmy out, and he finally said, "OK. That is it. You know I am thirty years old now. My mother started to urge me to get married. You know the proportion of males and females in the police circle. There is only one woman being detected by my radar…"

Before he finished his words, a UFO was rushing to his head.

Jimmy raised his hand to catch it with instinct. It was a fabric bear. The shooter was standing a few meters away, holding the hem of the wedding dress and pouting playfully.

And the next second, she waved to the other person, "Shirley, come here. Help me pick."

Shirley grimaced at her cousin and ran to the girl in a wedding dress.

Jimmy looked at the silly looking bear that wore a suit and ties and thought of his cousin's question. He started to recall-

She was first a colleague, a friend, and a little girl that liked to follow him. But their relation remained unchanged until the accident.

The first person he saw when he opened his eyes from the long coma was her, who stayed by her bedside. He could never forget her expression-surprised, happy, and tears surging up.

And she went to see him every day after work, either it was sunny or stormy. He told her that the nurse would take care of him, but she said the nurse could not do everything. And he was lonely and bored. Because of the special properties of the case, besides the doctors and nurses, he could only see Roger and her. The sickness and boring life in the hospital made him miss his family very much. And her being there gave him the feeling of friendship and family love.

And the time when their relations had substantial change was a year ago.

They got a tough case. Three young females were murdered in the city within a short time of two months. The murderer was morbid and cruel. The autopsy report stated that the females, though killed in different ways, we're all s.e.x.u.a.lly assaulted a couple of hours after they died. The victims were all white-collar ladies at the age of 20-25, with fair looking and all have short hair.

The series killing causes bad social impact, and the whole city was talking about the morbid killer.

And the CA Police required them to crack the case asap.

The clues of that case were limited, and after the police started the investigation and searched on spots that the killer might appear, the killer seemed to smell the danger and vaporized into the air.

As the deadline the state police bureau set was closing, there was no new development on the cracking of the case at all. The public and media gave them great pressure too. Jimmy and his teammates felt extremely anxious.

On the last night before the deadline, Jimmy, who was having a meeting in the police office, received a text message.

The content was only an address, and the sender was Claire.

His heart was tightened. He thought of the abnormal behaviors of Claire the past few days. He called the other two colleagues and headed to the address immediately.

When they found that house and broke in, they found there was on-going fighting in the bas.e.m.e.nt.

The three persons rushed to the bas.e.m.e.nt and brought a big, robust, and devilish looking man under control.

Looking at Claire, her hair was messy; her mouth was bruised, and her tank tops strap was broken. Jimmy took off his coat and threw it to her, and then turned back to kick the man furiously. His two colleagues stopped him and dragged him away.

There was only a chair in the bas.e.m.e.nt, and it was bound with some wires. Jimmy could not say anything looking at the scene. Claire took out the recording pen from her jeans pocket and gave it to him.

The suspect was taken to the police office for interrogation.

After cleaning up, Claire went out to the corridor and saw Jimmy leaning on the rail, smoking, and his face dark.

Claire said carefully, "I am sorry."

He threw away the cigarette and walked to her. His tone was harsh, "Are you crazy or stupid?"

"I wanted to crack the case asap."

"Crack the case asap?" Jimmy got annoyed, "So many people in our team. You wouldn't take the responsibility alone if we had not accomplished our mission. Do you know how stupid that was? If we arrived a little later, you would be burnt to wood log by electricity."

"I know." Claire pitched her voice, "I saw you so anxious every day. I just wanted to help you."

Jimmy was shocked.

"I wanted you to notice me. We have known each other so long, and you never treated me seriously. You don't think I am a qualified policeman."

She was so scared that night. Being a policeman for a few years, it was the first time she acted alone. And it was unknown to anybody. If Jimmy had not received the text in time or if he delayed a little… He was right. She could not imagine it now.

Jimmy pressed his lips into a line and held her shoulders and padded her on the back, "OK. It is not that I didn't think you are a qualified policeman. You are the only lady on our team. I have to take care of you."

"You never treat me like a lady either." Claire retorted.

Jimmy smirked, "OK. I will treat you as a police lady from now on."

In the interrogation room, the man admitted the crimes he committed.

His girlfriend who he had relations with for many years, cheated on him and dumped him for a rich man. When he found that they had got married and moved to another country, he had nowhere to vent his anger. He started to take revenge on girls that resembled his girlfriend. During the interrogation, the killer described the details of his torturing and killing of the girls proudly.

Claire's face turned colorless after she saw the video of the interrogation.

Jimmy reached for her hand. Her fingers were freezing. He sighed and squeezed her hand.

When everything was over and the day broke, Claire didn't dare to go home because her face had some bruises, and she didn't want her mom and dad to see it.

Jimmy took her to his house and let her live in the guest room. She took a shower and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. When she woke up, it was almost noon. Jimmy was waiting in the living room.

He waited until she sat down and said, "I thought about it last night. I think I have responsibility for what happened to you. I didn't care about you enough. I put you at risk. It is lucky that you didn't get hurt, or I could not forgive myself. I…"

He stopped for a moment, and Claire looked at him.

He took a deep breath and went on, "I would kill that bastard if I was not a policeman." He ground his teeth with hatred.

Claire's eyes were wet.

They both seemed to feel something changed between them.

Jimmy tried to behave normally and changed to a joking tone, "OK, change your clothes, police lady. I will take you to have brunch."

Claire went to the bathroom to clean up. She looked at herself in the mirror and cried and laughed like a nut.