THE DARK TRUTH

chapter 2

The Detective wrote the final report for his last case as he downed the rest of his cold coffee. He leaned back and sighed, shutting his eyes for a moment. There was a knock on his table and he opened his eyes to see the Lieutenant. The Lieutenant had his cap underneath his arm and a look on his face. Maxwell stood up.
"Do you need anything, sir?"
The Lieutenant shook his head, "I have something to tell you and I'm afraid to wouldn't like it. we just cut a call for a homicide case and behold it was from your house, am sure that the person was one of your relatives, due to this you are going to be given this day of go and rest, I don't want you to work with the stress of losing a loved one, Goodbye".He then opened the door and left Maxwell's office.
So Maxwell ran off to his house only to meet his stepmum dead, his father and cleaner Mrs phebe crying at one end of the house, When he got to the scene of her death he heard his name maxwell as he turned,
"Good day Mr maxwell"
Detective paul greeted imedately,
"before you came i had done some some investigations and i found out that she died of cancer,"
With wide bulging eyes
"how"
Detective Maxwell busted
"Well on the table in the living room we found her cancer test result that was taken on the 10 may 2025, indicating she had approximately 11 days to live and today was 20 of may 2025, so that means it more likely that was why she died, although the forensics are here they would be taking her body for examination,"
"Ok well thank you but that would not be necessary, since it is clear that she died from cancer," Maxwell said in sorrow
"But why are you so surprised and shocked"
"Well she is my mum "
"I thought your mum is dead"
With tears in his eyes"My step mum, my dad married her some days ago."
"Ohh sorry about that i will speak to our Lieutenant so u can have today off",
"That would be nice thanks,but he had already given me the day off".
Maxwell cried till night as he was about to sleep, he thought to him self, his step mum was a very nice person and an open person, she would never keep such a thing from them,and besides if the test results were lieing so careless,i would have noticed it before her death, moreover she never showed any sign of cancer like loss of hair and to crown it all, it was just wierd that on the very day, she died the test result was just found like that, not in her documents just in the living room like it was begging to be found something is not right.
So Mr Maxwell picked his phone and called.