Sleeping With The CEO-Chapter 333: Marge’s Wish

In one particular police station in the city, there sat a detective. Now that was not unusual at all. Police stations were often the place where you could be certain to run into a detective. But in a police department full of detectives. One detective stood out.

Her name was Margaret Pierce, Marge around the office. Her short hair now purely white, no salt and pepper to be seen, a clear indicator of her age. Marge was a month away from retiring.

As was the case with most people who were finally leaving the rat race of the work world, and were now going to enjoy a much quieter life.

Marge was reminiscing.

Just going down memory lane and thinking of all that she had done with her life. When people loved their job. They were often reluctant to leave, even when old age made it difficult for them to carry out their duties with the same efficiency that they used to be able to achieve.

But Marge was different. For while she loved her job dearly. She could not wait to leave. Being a police officer was hard, incredibly so. But being a homicide detective was especially difficult.

Marge had seen far too much of the most horrible things that human beings could do to one another. So even though she loved getting justice for the victims, and also bringing closure to family members. She was done. There was simply nothing left in her, that could endure any more of the job.

She had to go.

Even so, if given half a chance, there were cases. Unsolved ones in her past that Marge should go back to in a heartbeat if it meant that she could solve them. But that was not how the world worked.

She was old now.

Someone new, someone younger, was coming to replace her very soon.

She just hoped that the cold case department would look into some of the cases that she had been unable to solve, and they would come up with something that she had missed. Marge did not care for the glory of solving cases.

She just wanted justice to be served.

One case in particular had always bothered her, the Haven-Molson case.

Two dads and their kids.

The fathers found dead in the car when it had been pulled from the waters.At first glance it had looked like an ordinary accident. But then the skid marks that did not match, the wheels of Jasper Haven’s car, had been noticed. And once forensics had gotten their hands on the car, they had found something else. Whoever it was that had forced Jasper Haven off the road and into the waters.

Their car had briefly rubbed against Mr Haven’s. Friction causing red paint from their car to mix with the black paint, of the car that Jasper had been driving.

They had shared the information about the skid marks with the wives. But they had never gotten a chance to tell them about the paint because the case had been put on ice by the higher-ups.

No one had ever said it directly, but Marge had been able to read between the lines. The Havens were a powerful family and for whatever reason they had not wanted, what had happened to their loved one investigated.

At first Marge had thought that the family wanting everything to be shut down was suspicious. That whoever the orders had come from was the one that they should be looking into.

She had done a bit of digging on her own, and she had found out that word had come from Cassandra Haven and that Jane Molson. Whose husband had also been killed, had also been in agreement with her.

The two women wanting everything buried for the sake of their children. And Marge had understood. She had been the one to find the kids after all. Even years later, she still remembered the cold dread that had settled over her. As she had been searching with her fellow officers.

No one had said anything. But in truth, none of them had wanted to be the ones to find the children. After seeing the state of their fathers. Everybody had believed that the kids were most likely also dead.

When she had seen their little bodies culled up together, Marge had approached cautiously, expecting them to be lifeless. But when she had reached them and had found two pairs of terrified little faces staring at her.

Marge had not even been ashamed to shed a tear.

And that was part of the reason why the Haven-Molson case had stuck with her. The little faces that she had seen that day. And also the microscopic streak of red paint across the side of Jasper Haven’s black car. If they had been able to find the owner of the red car. Then the case would have been cracked open. But it had been twenty years, and it had long gone cold.

Most likely the owner of the car had had it scrapped as soon as possible. But even so, Marge still held out hope, and she still thought about Derek Haven and Emily Molson from time to time. She wondered how they were doing, if they were fine.

Being that the Havens were quite popular. Marge sometimes saw Derek Haven on the news. He had grown into a handsome young man, but she often wondered how he was actually doing.

Did he still suffer from the sleeping problems that she had found out about years ago? Did Emily still have them as well? Over the years, she had often found herself wanting to see them just one more time. To make sure that they were alright. But she had given up on that wish, thinking it to be something impossible. But now just a month away from her retirement and Marge was getting her wish.

When she’d heard that there were two people who had come to see her about a case. Marge had instantly started shifting through the recent ones in her head. Trying to figure out who it could be. But then their names had been mentioned, and she had just frozen.

She did not run out into the reception area, but it was a near thing. And when she laid eyes on them, Marge could not help the genuine smile that stretched her face instead of the professional one that she often gave civilians.

Derek Haven and Emily Molson together just like all of those years ago. As she walked towards them, Marge kept seeing them as the kids they had been back then.

They might have aged but they still looked very similar to their younger selves. And judging by the way that they were leaning into one another, they had more than stayed in touch. Derek Haven and Emily Molson were a couple, and that made Marge’s heart sing.

Introductions done she led them to her office for a bit more privacy.When she asked what she could help them with, they said the words that Marge had been wanting to hear for years.

"We are here about the Molson-Haven case. We want to look into it,"

Emily Molson said and Marge wanted to cheer.

Finally, finally things were going right.

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