Page 84 of Perfect Happiness
“I heard he’s your ex-boyfriend and he married your sister.”Detective Kim looked at the young detective.“Sounds like a soap opera, doesn’t it?”
Jane didn’t react to this.All she did was record this comment on her notepad.She was hoping he might hold his tongue, but he seemed to have no intention of pulling punches.Detective Kim grinned at her again before continuing.
“It seems to me like you’ve been seeing your ex-boyfriend all this time, the man your sister married.Is that right?”
“I can’t answer that question.”
Detective Kim propped his cheek on his hand and stared brazenly at Jane, who used all her energy not to avert his gaze.This stalemate continued for a while.Tick-tock, tick-tock.
Detective Kim started over from the beginning.Jane for her part would glance down at her notes and repeat her answers from before as if reading a script.Getting angry or making any unnecessary comments would only hurt her.The more energy she allowed her emotions to consume, the greater the chance she would slip up.This was also the only way to get out of here faster.She had to repeat the same answers until the lion got sick and tired of her.
“Can you show me the text message Joon-young sent you?”
Jane paused her recording and looked for the message.Detective Kim glanced momentarily at the cellphone she gave him before returning it to her.
“Would you mind sending me a screenshot of that?I want to take a closer look at it later.”
He talked as if she had just sent him a ten-page report.After taking a screen shot of the text exchange, she sent it to the number he gave her.
“At what time did you read the text message?”Detective Kim asked as he fiddled with his phone.
“Around 3 p.m.”
“You said you got out of the car at 11 a.m.And this text message arrived at 11:04.You mean to tell me you didn’t check your phone for four hours?”
“I put my phone in airplane mode just before going into the museum.I can’t concentrate if I get phone calls while working.I’m required to record interviews.”
Jane held up her phone and showed it to them.
“Just like this.”
Aha...Detective Kim mouthed before changing the subject.
“Do you know Min-young Seo?”
“I do.”
“She told us she met you last Monday.”
“That’s true.”
“She said you hid from her the fact that you met Joon-young.Why?”
“I never hid it from her.She never gave me a chance to speak.I guess she didn’t tell you the scene she made when she showed up at my workplace.”
Detective Kim tapped on the desk with the side of his thumb as he stared at her.His facial expression was saying,You tell me.Jane agreed to this, but she spoke as casually as she could, and only gave him the most basic details.
“I find it hard to believe you ran away just because of a little disagreement.Did you record that, too?I’d like to hear what was said.”
Jane didn’t answer this.But he continued to push her buttons.
“What?You don’t have it?I thought you were a journalist!”
“If you’re so curious about what happened, then you can ask the staff who were working at the café that day.”
Detective Kim didn’t look that interested after all.He skillfully moved on to the next question.
“Min-young sent you an email asking for help the next day.You could have told her then.”
