Chapter 12 - Rejected? (1/2)

”I can't believe she died. She was new to Beijing. She didn't have any friends nor family here and she didn't seem to get along with the other nurses, so I offered to do some furniture shopping with her. We were supposed to meet at 3pm that day, but something came up and I couldn't make it. I can't believe she was murdered at 4pm that same day,” Lily sobbed. ”If I was there, would she have been fine?”

”Don't blame yourself. If you were there, maybe you would have died as well,” one of the men said.

”She was so sweet. I felt like she honestly cared about us. She often asked me about my life and how everyone else was doing. I can't believe she left like that,” Lily sighed.

From Halia's point of view, it seemed like Sara was interrogating them. But, obviously, the doctors had no idea.

At that moment, Halia reached the four doctors. ”What's wrong Lily, why are you crying?” she asked.

”A colleague passed away, so I'm just a little shocked,” Lily replied as she wiped away her tears. ”I'm fine now. As a doctor, I've seen my fair share of death.”

”I'm sorry, I don't think we've met,” one of the male doctors said at this time as he looked at Halia.

”This is Halia,” Isaac immediately introduced. ”She's a new nurse here.”

”Halia, this is Dr. Ivan Tang and Dr. Vincent Su,” Isaac told Halia.

Halia smiled, ”Nice to meet the two of you.”

She recognized these two names. They were both on her suspect list. Dr. Tang was an intern like Lily and Dr. Su was a brain surgeon.

”We are going out for a few drinks after work today since none of us are working or on-call tomorrow, would you like to join us Halia?” Isaac suddenly offered.

”Yeh, come join us. It can be our way of welcoming you,” Dr. Tang said.

Halia realized it would be a good opportunity to ask more questions so she nodded her head.

That entire day, Halia practically stuck to the head nurse like a shadow. Whenever she got the chance, she would ask the other nurses what they thought about the doctors. Especially the ones on her suspect list.

”Dr. Yan's really popular with the women. Even patients swoon over him. I mean, look how handsome and talented he is,” a student nurse said with admiration.

Halia watched as the young nurse blushed. She was right, Isaac was indeed handsome and talented. But, maybe that was how he lured his victims...Some of the most famous serial killers were known to be good looking and charming.

Halia kept her guard up.

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