KILL THIS LOVE | JENLISA

Chapter 131

Jennie

"What Agent Lee here is trying to say, is that the Prozac may have induced the altering of tiny details in your mind, I assure you we are not questioning your honesty Ms. Kim."

I squinted my eyes, I could swear I knew the woman from somewhere.

"I'm Doctor Soo from the Behavioural Sciences Unit, KCIA."

My eyes widened as recognition befell me, "Wait, you're Soo Jung Lee." I breathed, my voice subconsciously a little louder than before.

Doctor Soo Jung Lee was the author of multiple Criminal Psychology books. Books that happened to be a part of my syllabus. That's why the face looked familiar, for it was one that I'd been looking at in class for the past year and a half, on the front cover of said books. Except of course, in real life I was missing the circular glasses and moustache that Mino had frivolously scribbled over her face on my copy of the books.

She gave me a small smile, then turning to Agent Lee, "Sorry I'm a little late, it's been a while since I've been here. I feel like a prodigal child."

Oh, and not to mention, she was a Seoul National University alumnus.

"Okay, I'm gonna go get a coffee. Why don't you talk with Ms. Kim till I'm back." He said, his face unreadable as Doctor Soo nodded and he got up to leave.

She turned to me, cheery eyed, "So, Jennie, how are you feeling?"

"I can't feel my fingers and it's hard to breathe." I deadpanned.

"Fair enough." She exhaled, her smile slipping. "Forgive me, I'm not up to detail with this case. But I hear you're a fellow criminal psychology student."

I remained tight-lipped. I could tell Doctor Soo was just trying to get the conversation to a start. Mind games, that's all these people could ever play. "Well, why did you choose this? It's not a very popular field. Did you like psychology in school?"

I turned to her, figuring if Doctor Soo was not going to shut up with the questions, I might as well answer the ones that I could truthfully. "I.. I didn't even have psychology in my school. One of my science teachers told me about the Doctor Sang Min Whang Scholarship for Criminal Psychology at Seoul National University and I decided to apply. I couldn't have afforded university otherwise. Buying a laptop nearly cost me almost all of my savings." And now there was nothing more I regretted than doing that.

"I believe you first met Manoban during a physical project?"

I nodded, making Doctor Soo knit her brows together, "I have to say, we never had any such projects. I didn't even see an actual perpetrator till I was doing my masters." Her gaze ran along my sunken eyes, the bruises and my arms. She sighed, placing a comforting hand on top of mine.

"It's alright. You're alive, you're a survivor. She can't hurt you now."

A tear formed in my eye. Not because of Doctor Soo's words spoke to me, but because of just how wrong they were. Every second I spent awake in the hospital, was a reminder of how I'd ended up here. Every time I closed my eyes, I felt the frosty wind being pelted at my skin, the jagged glass cut into my back; and most importantly, I saw Lisa's face as she backed away from me, leaving me to die in the cold. A part of me wished that she'd just stabbed me and ended my misery.

Every second of Lisa Manoban's existence haunted me, and there was no escaping it. There was no escape. For you can escape a madman, but the madman cannot escape your mind.