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Chapter 288
Chapter 288
Andre glanced at Mia, doubting if she was messing around with him. Should he really tell her?
"Mia, you're not playing tricks on me, are you?"
Busted?
Looking at Mia's expression, Andre seemed to know the answer. "Are you fooling me? Trying to get
information from me to tell those two, so the three of you can stir up trouble again?"
Mia quickly defended, "No, it's all your conjecture, not the truth. I won't tell them. I'm on your side. I just
wanted to know out of curiosity..."
If Andre was really troubled, she could always kidnap that person with her friends to cheer him up.
Andre felt that he should not trust Mia; he almost fell for her trick just now. "Turn off the lights, and go to
sleep."
"Just tell me. I want to know. I promise I won't cause trouble."
Andre warned, "If you don't close your eyes and sleep, I'll take off your clothes and that means no
sleep for you tonight."
Mia immediately closed her eyes, but her mouth didn't stop, "You always treat me like a child, hiding
things from me. Why don't you treat me like a child when we sleep together?"
Seeing her defiant face, Andre was speechless and had to bend down to kiss her. "You better start
school soon. You're driving me nuts at home."
Once she started school, his heart could finally settle down. Not only him, Chad thought the same way.
With Molly at the Cedillo family, he worried every day.
He would call her every night, reminding her before hanging up, "Don't cause me trouble. I'm very busy
recently."
Molly would assure Chad every day that she would absolutely stay out of trouble.
The next day, Mia showed up, and the other two asked her for news, Mia shook her head in
disappointment. Although she tried to trick Andre last night, she didn't succeed in the end. Moreover,
everything she said last night was sincere.
When Molly heard about Chad's difficulties, she would definitely lose her mind, probably trying to help
but end up causing more trouble.
Although Mia could probably figure out the truth, she still didn't tell them. "Andre hugged me to sleep
last night. I didn't find out anything."
"How old are you, still needing Andre to hold you to sleep. Are you gonna fall off the bed if he doesn't?"
The two single friends teased.
Mia replied, "If you guys are jealous, go find a partner."
Molly left, and Mia asked her, "Where are you going, will you be back for lunch?"
Molly answered, "I'm going to find my boyfriend." She took a car to the police station.
With Chad not at the station, she learned that he went to some old neighborhoods for a lecture.
While chatting with Molly, Donnie kept a meter distance, "Jade, you didn’t inform Chad before coming?"
Molly replied, "I made a last-minute decision. Where is Chad, I'll go find him."
Donnie gave her the address.
Molly wrote down the address, preparing to leave when she suddenly remembered Chad's words last
night, so she asked Donnie about it. "Is Chad currently handling any major cases?"
Donnie shook his head, "The content of the case is confidential. It should not be disclosed to anyone
before the case is clear."
Molly thought for a while, decided to follow the police's advice, and stopped asking.
A year passed, and there were new personnel changes in the police station. Donnie had also become
a formal employee, and for newcomers, he was considered a veteran employee.
A new officer asked Donnie, “Who's the girl who was just talking to you? She's pretty.” NôvelDrama.Org (C) content.
Donnie remembered his near-death experience last year, and said, “She's Officer Chad's sweetheart. I
tell you, even if you have feelings for her, don't pursue her.”
The new officer seemed to understand his meaning.
Molly took a taxi to Oakridge Springs, an old residential area where few young people lived. Most
people had moved to the skyscrapers in the city center. The buildings here were only six stories high
and looked like they had a history of over thirty years.
Most of the residents here were elderly, so Chad often organized police officers to come to these old
communities to give lectures, explaining what economic crimes were.
As the elderly had weaker understanding and judgment abilities than young people, and with the
various tricks of scammers nowadays, the elderly's money was often the easiest to be scammed.
Therefore, reminding and educating them frequently can reduce their chances of being scammed.
Molly fully supported Chad's approach; she even attended the lecture once. After the lecture, she gave
Chad some small suggestions, which helped him a lot.
That day, a crowd gathered on the playground of Oakridge Springs. There were three police officers on
site, one maintaining order, one giving the lecture, while Chad was talking with the community director
of Oakridge Springs.
The officer giving the lecture stood in the crowd, like standing on a podium.
“Recently we received a report from a granny in her seventies, she cried and told us ‘Officer, please
save our family, all my money has been scammed.’ Do you know what happened? Let me explain it to
you in detail.”
He clapped his hands, asking everyone to focus. “Ten days ago, this granny attended a lecture. What
was the lecture about? The speaker told her, if you invest 10,000 this year, I can give you 30,000 next
year, your interest for a year would be 20,000. Invest 100,000, and I can give you 300,000 next year. I'll
sign a contract with you in the name of the company, and stamp the company's seal. Do you think this
is true or false?”
Many elderly people shook their heads, "Definitely false."
The officer continued, “We know now that this person is a scammer. But what if you found out that this
company is a bank, they have a business license, and there are many witnesses on stage proving they
earned hundreds of thousands in a year. Then do you think this is true or false?”
"Still false."
"It's a scam, right?"
The cop clapped for these old folks, "You guys are pretty sharp, proving that these con artists can't
swindle a dime out of you. But there are some old-timers, when they hear all this good news, plus a
business license, they buy it hook, line, and sinker.
"That old lady ended up handing over 100 grand, and poof. The moment the money was handed over,
those so-called bank employees vanished into thin air. That 100 grand was the old woman's hard-
earned savings over many years, and the swindler took it all. Tell me, isn't what these crooks do just
inhuman?"
The cop kept on going, "….and how do those high-level scam artists operate? They rope you into their
scheme, saying you give me a grand this month, I'll give you 1200 next month. You buy into it, thinking
it's not a lot of money, and you actually invest. Come next month, they tell you to bring someone else
in, and they'll give you 1500. Then you start pulling in your friends and family to invest. Come the final
month, the scam artists take all the money and run, vanishing with the loot and fleeing overseas…."