BAD HEROINES

6. Her Sisters

Reina remained quiet in that large room. A huge mirror covered the wall, and she was sure someone was watching her.

It hadn't been long since she finished being interrogated and was told to wait.

Working by following orders could be bothersome. How did even Michelle, who wasn't even a team leader, have to put up with these annoying superiors?

She sat there with her arms crossed over her chest and closed her eyes. Part of her forehead had a bandage.

As she closed her eyes, she replayed the moment of that attack and the men in helmets who, three days ago, took Michelle. She needed to find her. And that wouldn't happen if she kept sitting here, wasting time.

The door to the interrogation room opened.

Reina smelled that familiar scent and guessed who it might be. She opened her eyes.

Alan stepped in and took a seat. He studied Reina for a moment, then scoffed. "I might say I am to blame."

It had been only a week since Reina begged him that she wanted to return to her work despite her condition.

He should've known. Losing memories wasn't far from going crazy. Or else the Michelle he knew wouldn't dare defy her superiors with how much she wanted to keep her job.

She used a different route and hours different from the plans to transfer Reina.

"Had they found any clues?" Reina asked, making it her first priority.

"You're going to lose your job," Alan casually said. "You might as well return and keep our farmhouse."

As he and Michelle, at some point, were raised by the same parents. His parents.

Reina paused. She lost her job? Was it serious?

She hadn't even started anything.

Alan heaved a breath. "It's a small station far from the city. What was the name of that village again?"

So she was transferred far from the city? Things became troublesome.

"What about Miche... I mean, Reina? Have they looked into those gangs? They should also investigate those officers who escorted us..."

"Michelle." Alan cut her off, his face serious. "Don't you understand? You're to be transferred to some local station with your condition."

"Did you find anything?" Reina coldly replied, fixing her eyes on him.

Alan went speechless. They used to bicker in the past, but at least he knew her. He wasn't sure about this one.

"Do whatever you wish," Alan said and rose. Then he walked outside.

Reina gritted her teeth. He hadn't replied about Michelle's progress yet!

Early morning, Reina drove her car somewhere.

One thing she was proud about Michelle was that she didn't have a tragic story when it came to money. It even made her wonder if detectives were paid that well. After all, Michelle's savings were satisfying. And the first thing Reina did was buy that amazing sports car!

She returned to the scene where the attack happened before she lost Michelle.

The road was surrounded by hills and isolated. She chose this route because of the unpopulated roads. Whoever thought otherwise was also wrong. No, the wrong thing was working with a team!

She put a cigar to her mouth and lit it as she kept studying where that sniper might have been.

She slowly walked forward to find any nearby cameras.

Only after she took that corner did she see another car parked not far away. She knew that car, including the person leaning on it.

Hanae had a laptop on the car, as her hands moved like a machine on it. Not far away, there was a stand with a CCTV camera above it.

She must have already hacked it. Reina deduced that. She wanted to have a look too, but there was no way it would be easy.

Hanae closed the laptop immediately and turned, and her hand moved to her back.

She looked at Reina with a deep frown. She hadn't heard her approaching?

"You were supposed to be at school," Reina casually told her.

Hanae grabbed that gun, wishing to pull it out.

It was that fucking officer who plastered her sister, calling her a murderer, and led to her coma. When she woke up, she didn't get to see her sister, and that damn officer took her away! There was nothing she dreamed about more than destroying that bitch for good.

Reina, who knew her younger sister well, coldly warned, "Think carefully about what she would want you to do."

Hanae shouted, "What do you know?"

Reina threw her piece and took steps forward. "Work for me. And let's find her together."

"Don't let me see you again, or I'll make sure the whole world knows who you really are—all the dirty money you've made from covering up cases!"

Reina blinked. Did she mean Michelle was corrupt? She scoffed. No wonder her savings... Michelle, Michelle, it turned out you weren't that decent yourself.

Hanae stepped in her car and left.

How could this brat own a gun and a car? She wasn't even eighteen yet!

Was it my fault for raising you that way? Now she even threatened to murder an officer!

She glanced at that camera above her and took her phone. How did Hanae even connect that thing with a phone?

She struggled for a moment.

She had to find another way. The nearby center for this camera footage.

Later in the evening, there was a person she wanted to see before she left the city the next morning. Not only that, if possible, take him with her.

As she drove, she dialed him.

The phone kept ringing without a response.

Lian...

She arrived at that street to one of the apartments.

Getting off the car, she threw her eyes to that long building. It couldn't be that he moved away, right?

She went there. Took that elevator. Just getting off, she spotted Kai throwing trash in that dustbin. He looked down. Could something have happened?

"Excuse me," Reina calmly called him.

Kai turned to the unfamiliar figure.

"He isn't here," Kai replied shortly and wanted to return inside.

Reina immediately asked, "Where's he?"