Chapter 8 - A Secret Admirer? (1/2)

Lily Lin led Halia to the emergency reception desk which faced a large waiting room. Now that they were away from all the drama of the emergency ward, it was a lot quieter. She sat down in front of a computer and gestured for Halia to sit next to her.

”I'm Lily Lin, you can call me Lily in private, but around the patients I would prefer to be called Dr. Lin. I'm a final year intern here. I saw you flip that guy over earlier so I came to help you. You need to be careful, there are cameras everywhere, if they want to, they could sue you for what you did.”

Halia looked at Dr. Lin nervously, ”Do you think they'd do that?”

”Don't worry, I don't think those guys want any involvement with the police.”

Halia looked at Dr. Lin questioningly.

”I can sense a bad boy from a mile away. Plus, Jackson Wu's a regular at this hospital. I've seen him 3 times in the last 3 months and that's only in emergency,” Dr. Lin explained.

”What does he do?” Halia asked.

”I don't know and I don't want to ask.”

At that time, the head nurse approached, ”Halia, I've been looking everywhere for you, come with me?”

Halia thought she was in trouble, but when she looked up, the woman's face was indifferent. She was certainly hard to read.

The head nurse ended up leading Halia out to the garden and they sat down at a bench. The sky was already dark by this time, so the bench was lit up by a lamp. ”I was told to give you some assistance with your investigation but I was busy earlier, so I couldn't sit down and chat to you properly. Have you found anything so far?”

”I found this roster and discovered these 9 male doctors weren't working yesterday, is this correct?” Halia showed the suspect list she had compiled.

The nurse had a quick look and nodded her head. ”But, if this is a suspect list then Dr. Joe Zhu can be removed from this list,” she said as she pointed to a name.

”Why?” Halia asked.

”Dr. Zhu is my husband, we were together all day yesterday.”

Halia nodded and quickly crossed out his name.