Leslie's Pov

"No means a no, that's it. You're not coming to work today." I told Rachel who was on the other side of the phone, while I was at the dining table having breakfast with my family. I know at times I am a little annoying but only because I care about her. "But the doctor said I'll be fine and you are just behaving like I had some major accident." she told me. "Your mom and dad aren't gonna like it either, so just stay with them, they're back after a long time, they need you, Rach." I tried to speak a little slowly. "More specifically I need someone by my side right now!! Okay fine whatever, I give up. But just a day then I am getting back to work."

"See, you don't feel great either."

"Okay bye. Love you!" she said.

"Bye, I'll see you in the evening. Love you."

I hung up the phone and saw dad already looking at me. He gave his 24-carat smile and I smiled back at him.

"You're too stubborn." he said as he smiled.

"I know" I said and gave him a side hug from my seat.

It's been a great morning but things change with time as it does every day for me. It felt better after having to share my feelings with Mathew last night, whom I hardly knew. But it felt great to open up to someone after a long time. I ain't a happy soul, my life's not been a happy one for ages but I have the best family and friends with whom I can survive even the unhappiest journey.

The only feeling that conquers me is the feeling of losing someone. When I had finally moved on after losing Chloe, I lost him, the love of my life. Ever since it feels like it's never too late or never too soon for someone to leave you. My heart just aches at the thought of losing someone, again.

"Hey, where are you lost, missy?" Evan said as he snapped his fingers in front of me." "Nowhere." I replied and started having my breakfast that mom had served.

It had been ten minutes then since I left my house and I drove to the precinct. Everything's been just great ever since mom and dad came back. It's a happy family back again, mom's food, the late-night talks, sleeping with dad after a long tiring day, everything's just perfect. I just wish nothing changed because this perfect family, perfect life is what I've always wanted, no matter what kind of a job I do or whatever other plans destiny has for me.

The meeting in Joe's cabin always seems to be never-ending. It seems really weird to not have Rachel by my side. It's not that we've never stayed apart but we work together always and that's why it seems a little different.

"So what do you think?" Joe asked, dragging me out of my thoughts.

"I think it's the same again. First, he distracted us with Caden's case in which he mistakenly wasn't involved I guess and then he changed his target to Emily and now he's supposedly behind someone else." I gave my opinion.

"It can't be the same always, Leslie. He's a mastermind and you know he changes his plans every time, every day and at times every second." Joe said.

"If he went into Caden's office to kill Emily and also he knew where she was so that has surely got to mean that he knows either of them or maybe the both of them." Christopher said.

"Exactly, and if that's true then it's also got to be true that all this is connected to every single move that he has made ever since he escaped." I said and walked towards one of the drawers and pulled out a sheet of paper and started writing on it. Joe and Christoph kept looking at me.

"Look at this sequence. He escapes from the prison which first didn't show any link to Caden's murder. Then we find Emily's ring near the crime scene which has to mean, to some extent that she killed her husband and that leads to the question of why and the note from Robert is found which means he had some connection to the murder. A day later Emily is killed by him." I said all in one go as I drew a rough sequential diagram on the paper.

"So what's your conclusion?" Joe asked.

"We know who it is, to some possibility but don't know why. If Emily killed her husband then why and if Robert killed Emily then why and if all this is true then it's also true that all this has gotta do everything with our mafia master Robert Bennet." I said and Joe kept looking at me for a few minutes.

"Great, so you have it all worked out." he said, being pleased.

"Not yet. I replied and he gave me a confused look.

"We've got this worked out but that doesn't mean it's all true right. We work according to the way we think so we are going to work according to what we think and have in our heads right now." Christopher said and Joe nodded with a satisfied look.

"Emily's dead, we don't have Robert or any clue left, so the only people who can give us some more to go about the Heckles are their friends and family. And according to our information, they got no great friends except family. So we start with them." I said.

"And that's obviously their closest family." Christopher said and Joe nodded indicating him to continue.

"Kiara and Mathew" we said in unison and Joe smiled widely.

"Great job both of you, now get to work." he said and left his cabin.

I and Christopher looked at each other and he too had a gratified look on his face. "So...?" he asked. "So...let's get started then." I said as he smiled at me and we went out to the parking lot. We sat in his car and drove off to Mathew's home.

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Hey everyone!!
Hope you all liked the chapter. A short one but the suspense is still on!!

-demigorgeous_wrytes