Money Loving CEO's Detective Lover

Chapter 289: A File

Jaein was slurping on noodles at the autopsy lab when Gayoon entered the room. The latter winced at the crazy forensic doctor's antics. Five new bodies had been shipped in thanks to the rise in crimes in the city and yet, Jaein managed to eat around the corpses.

"Want some?" Jaein offered, extending the box of ramen.

"No thanks," Gayoon said warily. "I still don't get how you can eat around the dead bodies. Doesn't the smell get to you? Or their rotting organs?"

"Honey, there's a body of a man whose stomach was stabbed so badly that his intestines came out," Jaein stated. "The organs were literally hanging out from his abdomen when he was brought in and I cut it all out just a while ago. After seeing these things for so many years, I've developed a stomach as thick as a rhino's skin. I'm not bothered by it all."

"Ugh!" Gayoon exclaimed. She had felt a cold presence in the room and was sure that the guy with the organs was probably watching them but Gayoon did not want to cater to more ghosts. Taejoon was handling that case so the ghost would have to pester him for that. She had bigger issues to worry about.

"The little boy," she began. "Are the dental exams out?"

"Yes," Jaein replied. She walked over to her desk and took out a file.

"He had a small dental checkup a few months ago to remove a few milk teeth," she stated, handing the file to Gayoon. "His mother had taken him there. Her name in the record is Choi Hyeri."

So it is her! Gayoon thought. 

"Is there any address?" she asked.

"Yes, it's in the record," Jaein said. "Somewhere in I-Town. Not far from here."

Gayoon nodded and shut the file. "I'll go and ask there," she stated. "And what about the boy's body? How long will it be here?"

"I need to examine his wounds more," Jaein said. "But I'll be done within a week and then he'll be buried in the local cemetery."

Gayoon felt a little disturbed by that. A little boy who had died alone and would be buried in a cold grave all alone as well. It should have been like any other case to her but she always had a soft spot for children so cases with murdered kids unsettled her. Moreover, she actually came to know Shinho, albeit under very strange circumstances. Her motherly instincts reached out to him and the thought of seeing him being buried was breaking her heart.

"Gayoon, you're crying," Jaein pointed out.

"I"

Gayoon quickly wiped her tears. Jaein sighed.

"I know," she said. "I know it's hard for you to think about a child being buried. But that's the sad part of our jobs. We have to face it."

"I wish I was as strong as you," Gayoon said in a thick voice.

"I'm not as strong as you think," Jaein mused. "Even I have a heart which has its own limits. No matter how many dead bodies come in, the corpse of a child always haunts me."

For once, Gayoon noted a bitterness in Jaein's tone. The doctor was a strange woman but she also had a deep empathy. She just did not show it often.

"I'll go and talk to the mother," Gayoon said. "See if she's still there. And also ask about her at that Little Home Hospital."

Even though Gayoon had heard that Hyeri killed herself but she still had to follow the police procedure by finding out about it through a thorough investigation. After all, the leads they had were based on speculation not hard evidence.

Her phone beeped. Gayoon took it out to find two messages. One was from Junwan.

"Pick up the last batch of files from my desk and start computerizing them," she read out loud.

"The Chief really can't work without ya, huh?" Jaein asked.

"Guess not," Gayoon muttered. She scrolled to the next message which was from Junho.

"Meet me today," she read in her mind. "I have something I must show you. It's urgent!"

What's going on? She wondered. Was something wrong?

"I'll head off," Gayoon said. "The Chief wants me. See ya!"

She bid Jaein goodbye before making her way upstairs towards the Chief's room. Junwan was not in but there was a large stack of files on his desk. Gayoon sighed and picked up the stak when one of the files fell on the floor. Something shiny fell out from it.

"That must be some sort of case evidence!" she gasped. She put the files down and put on her gloves before picking up the shiny object. It was a ring.

What a pretty ring! She thought. She grabbed a tissue and wrapped the ring in it before putting it back inside the file. It belonged to someone named Kim Suna.

"I should take these away," she murmured, putting the file on the stack and carrying it up again. She took the files with her to her desk. Turning on her computer, she sat on her chair and grabbed Suna's file.

Flipping it over, she began to type in the contents.

"Name of the victim, Kim Suna," she murmured. "Killed by her husband-"

She was about to read the name of the husband when her phone rang up. It was Minho.

"Did you find out the address of Shinho's mother?" he asked from the other end.

"I did," she replied. "She used to live in I-Town. I'm about to go there in a while."

"Take me with you," he said. Gayoon frowned and put the file away.

"You wanna go there?" she asked. "Why?" 

"You said that you've heard that Shinho's mother had committed suicide, right?" 

"Yes" Gayoon said slowly. Minho leaned against his chair, thinking back to what the girl in the other realm had told him. Only those who had either committed a heinous crime or given up on their life could enter the World of the Dead. It was their punishment.

"I want to go there and talk to her," he revealed. "I might know where she is."