Accomplice | MiChaeng FF

Chapter 5

Sitting on the couch, Chaeyoung thanked the brunette when she handed him a new compress. She lived in a small, well-appointed apartment compared to him. A tidy office with its files, a library full of books on all subjects: law, crime, medicine... She was a very talented woman in her field. A recommended lawyer who took out all her clients even if they were involved in serious matters. She obviously had enemies, but she didn’t really care and she crushed them one by one. They were insects in her eyes.

"Why did you join the police?" Asked Mina, posing two glasses of alcohol.

"To catch the bad guys," tease the younger.

She raised her eyebrows and noticed the change in expression. The young killer leaned to see his expression. The eyes of the latter got wet but no tear came off.

She used to see him smiling, flirting, and always teasing that this change of face, disturbs her.

"Actually, for my little brother..."

She kept quiet.

"He disappeared at the age of 5. We never found him. My parents died, and it literally killed them. So I took over when I joined the police. In the evening, I worked on his disappearance but part of me knows that it serves no purpose. As long as I don’t find any formal evidence, a corpse... for me, he’s still alive."

The brunette passed her hand behind his back and rubbed it with a maternal gesture.

"I’m sorry," she murmured. "23 years?"

"Yes, 23 years he’s been gone."

Taking his thoughts and a breath of fresh air, he added with a smile:

"It’s okay, I’m fine. What about you? How were you when you were younger?"

Mina lowered her eyes.

"I... Mina?"

Seeing that she was crying, the younger tried to lift up her face but she pushed him back and got up.

"I don’t want to talk about it."

Chaeyoung watched and decided to get up before walking towards her.

"Don’t tell me," he said tenderly. "You will tell me when you are ready and when you feel like it."

"I don’t even know you," she said, looking out the window, the city was starting to fall asleep.

"I told you about the subject that destroyed me and continues to destroy me every day, you know? And... I’m not bad."

The young lawyer turned towards him with her arms folded over her chest. She looked down at the glass of alcohol he was giving her.

"Alcohol is the aspirin of the soul," smiles the younger. "The best remedy to forget."

"Lieutenant, are you trying to get me drunk?"

"Why?" laughed Chae as he approached his glass to his lips when she caught it suddenly and pushed it away.

"Because we can skip this step."