My name is Felix Hastings. I was a detective. Now I’m dead. I’ve become a ghost, lingering around my fiancée, Paisley Taylor. “Paisley, something’s happened. I need your help!” Paisley got a call from Kevin Sinclair. She dropped everything and rushed to him. He was her first love; they grew up together. Whatever he asked, she would do it. I once asked if she only cared about Kevin. She would always impatiently reply, “Kevin and I are just friends. Stop being jealous.” This time, he killed someone and asked her to handle the body. And she agreed. But she didn’t know the body was mine.
“Kevin, this is the last time I’m helping you!” Paisley expertly put on gloves and started erasing the fingerprints. When she saw a scar on the body’s right arm, she worried it might be recognized. So, she used acid to dissolve the scar. Then, she continued checking for other identifiable marks. Out of habit, she narrated while examining, “There’s a scar on his left abdomen, looks like a surgical mark.” Even though we’ve been dating for years, we’ve never had sex. She mentioned she doesn’t believe in premarital sex. I respect her views. So, she doesn’t know about the scars on my arm and abdomen. Kevin got nervous when he heard Paisley. He held his breath and stayed silent. Only after she used acid to erase the scars on the body did he finally relax. “It looks like he’s missing a kidney.” Paisley pressed on the left side of the abdomen, confirming her suspicion. Kevin, worried she might figure something out, quickly changed the subject. “Where should we dump the body after we’re done?” “Just find a random spot, as long as it won’t be discovered.” Kevin agreed and then stared at Paisley. “Have you and your fiancé made up yet?” She snorted. “I don’t want to talk about him.” Seeing her expression, Kevin knew our relationship hadn’t improved. Satisfied with the answer, he said no more. He needed to be sure she still didn’t know I had truly disappeared. A month ago, Paisley and I had a fierce argument. Since then, we’ve been giving each other the silent treatment. No matter what messages I sent, she wouldn’t reply, and she didn’t even come home. After dealing with the body, Paisley stood up and took off her gloves. She glanced at the head of the corpse. The face was completely unrecognizable, not a single part intact. Naturally, Paisley couldn’t recognize me. She asked, “How much did you hate him to destroy his face like this? He wasn’t someone you knew, was he?” Kevin’s heart skipped a beat, and he gave a guilty laugh. “There are other forensic experts in the city. This is all I can do. Be careful.” “I got it.” Kevin nodded and then eagerly pulled Paisley into his arms. “Paisley, I’ve missed you so much.” “Do you know I’ve been thinking about you every single day? I’m going crazy without you.” Paisley was moved by his words. Kevin held her hand. “Paisley, please don’t go. Stay with me a little longer, okay?” With that, Kevin kissed Paisley. She couldn’t resist him. In front of my corpse, she embraced him and they made love. I wanted to rush over and shout, “Don’t do this disgusting thing next to my body.” But my soul passed right through them. No matter how much I screamed, they couldn’t hear me. I was powerless.
Kevin and Paisley’s moans filled the air. I wanted to cover my ears, but the sound pierced my soul. No matter what I did, it was useless. I couldn’t escape. It felt like a curse, my soul was bound to her, and I couldn’t break free. I watched helplessly as my fiancée, the woman I cherished more than my own life, made love with my murderer. I felt so nauseous I wanted to vomit. After I threw up, a spiteful thought crossed my mind: Paisley would eventually realize the corpse beside her was mine. One day, when she finds out she slept with the man who killed her fiancé and even helped him destroy my body, would she break down? A twisted sense of revenge filled my heart. It made me feel a bit better. Paisley and Kevin made love next to my remains for over an hour. Afterward, she went back home. She opened the door to darkness. She turned on the light and walked into the kitchen out of habit. She opened the fridge and grabbed a chilled coconut water. She smelled the stench of rotting vegetables. She covered her nose and cleaned out the rotten vegetables from the fridge. There was still a bottle of fresh milk in the fridge, expiring in a day, produced a week ago. Seeing the date, Paisley naturally thought of the corpse she just saw. She immediately recognized that the body had been dead for a week. The body hadn’t decomposed yet, indicating Kevin had put a lot of effort into preserving it. Paisley shook her head, not wanting to think about why Kevin did it. I watched her standing at my room’s door. After hesitating for a while, she pushed it open. Freshly washed, unfolded clothes were on my bed. Paisley folded the clothes and put them in the wardrobe. While putting the clothes away, she accidentally pulled something out. I instantly recognized it as the ring I planned to propose with. Paisley opened the ring box and saw the ring. After a few seconds of shock, she threw the box into the wardrobe with disgust and left. My spirit followed her, and I heard her angrily say, “So you’re just going to ignore me forever? Fine, never come home. Just die out there!” She didn’t know, I really was dead. The next morning, Paisley was woken up by her phone ringing. My body was found by a sanitation worker. He called the police, and they arrived quickly. Paisley showed up at the scene too. She immediately recognized the body she had dealt with. “Ms. Taylor, the face has been maliciously damaged, and the fingerprints are gone. We can’t identify the body right now.” Hearing this from her assistant, Paisley sighed in relief. Luckily, nothing identifiable was left. “Take the body back first. I’ll go talk to Isaac.” Paisley approached Isaac Whitman, my mentor, to learn more about the body’s identity. “Isaac, the body is badly damaged. It’ll take time to identify it through the remains. Did you find any evidence at the scene?” Isaac was completely clueless. “This isn’t the primary crime scene. It rained last night. We can’t find any useful evidence. This case is tough! And Felix is on vacation right now!” Isaac deliberately mentioned me in front of Paisley. She got a bit angry when she heard my name. “Has Felix contacted you?” Isaac knew Paisley had been upset with me because of that incident. He wanted to help smooth things over. “Isaac, I’m busy. I need to get back to the station.” With that, Paisley turned and left. Isaac watched her walk away, shaking his head and sighing, “I really don’t understand what young people are thinking these days!” Then he took out his phone and called me. “This is strange. He still can’t be reached. Leo, can you try calling Felix?” My soul couldn’t stray too far from Paisley, so I followed her back to the station. Her assistant looked at my body on the autopsy table and sighed, “Ms. Taylor, this killer is so cruel! He was so young, and now he’s dead.” Once she was suited up, her assistant stepped back to give her space. “Ms. Taylor, we have to get justice for the victim!” Hearing this, Paisley’s hand holding the scalpel trembled slightly. I noticed her eyes were filled with tears. She must be feeling guilty for helping the killer. If she knew the body in front of her was mine, how would she feel? She’d probably be happy. After all, her mother, Carol Taylor, died because of me…
A month ago, our police department teamed up with the state government to take down organized crime. I worked overtime for a month straight. I was so busy I even forgot Carol’s birthday. She understood how hard I was working and felt sorry for me for working overtime for a month straight. That night, Carol prepared some desserts and personally brought them to the police station. After I got the call, I was about to go out and bring her in. At the same time, the on-duty officer caught a fugitive and was about to interrogate him. I followed them into the interrogation room and forgot to meet Carol at the entrance. When I finished the interrogation and came out, I saw Paisley storming towards me, furious. I remembered there weren’t any major cases recently, so she shouldn’t have been working late. Why was she here at this hour? Sensing something was off, I was about to ask her what was wrong. She walked up and slapped me. “Do you remember my mom?” It hit me then—Carol had been waiting outside the station for me. “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. I completely forgot. I’ll go apologize to her right now!” I started to run outside, but noticed Paisley standing still. I was about to ask what was going on when I saw Isaac coming in with a grave expression. “Felix, Ms. Taylor, come in.” Once inside Isaac’s office, I learned that Carol was dead. “Carol’s dead? What happened?” Isaac told me that while Carol was waiting for me outside the station, she ran into some thugs. We had been cracking down on gangs, and I had arrested their leader. In retaliation, they knocked Carol out and dragged her to the roadside. They cut off her arms and legs and dumped them in a nearby ditch. I couldn’t believe Carol was dead. I looked into Isaac’s eyes. He sighed, head lowered. Paisley collapsed onto the table, sobbing uncontrollably. “Felix, you jerk! If you had picked up my mom earlier, this wouldn’t have happened!” Paisley was furious at me when she found out Carol came to the police station to bring me desserts and got attacked by my enemies. I had planned to propose to Paisley next week. But because of this incident, I put the plan on hold. Paisley refused to forgive me and moved out of our shared apartment. She ignored my texts and calls. Even at Carol’s funeral, she had people block me from entering. “You killed my mom. You have no right to be at her funeral.” In the end, I could only say goodbye to Carol from outside the funeral home, facing where her body was laid. I had one lingering question about the whole thing. How did those thugs know Carol was connected to me? Given the nature of our jobs, Paisley and I had warned Carol not to mention us to anyone, fearing our enemies might target her. The surveillance near the police station captured those thugs. I led the team to arrest them myself. But no matter how I interrogated them, they claimed it was a spur-of-the-moment attack. Yet all the evidence pointed to a premeditated crime. After all, no one would be dumb enough to wander around a police station with knives in the middle of the night. I traced the two machetes back to a hardware store. I was surprised to find the owner was Kevin. I showed him the photos of the thugs and asked if he recognized them. He looked carefully, then shook his head and said he didn’t know them. Finding no leads, I turned to leave. As I was walking out, I spotted a gold earring in the corner. It was the one I gave Carol for her birthday last year. The day before she was attacked, she had called me, apologizing for losing the earring. “How did her gold earring end up here?” I picked up the gold earring, ready to ask Kevin what was going on. Suddenly, he pulled out a metal rod and struck my head hard. Before I passed out, I heard a man’s voice behind Kevin. “Kevin, did that old lady tell him about our smuggling?”
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