Hello, Ms. Jones!

"What were you thinking, Officer Jones?!"

"Why did you attack and arrest an innocent man?!"

Jasmine just lowered her head as she accept the scolding from her senior officer, Mr. Adolfo Cua. She was inside his office and was currently being questioned by him as to how she did such a bad job on arresting the wrong person and even beating him up!

"I'm sorry, sir," it was the only word that Jasmine was able to say. It still won't help if she reasons for herself anyway!

"I'm sorry?!" Senior Officer Cua repeated, " Do you even know who that man is?" he continued.

"No, sir," Jasmine answered honestly, still lowering her head. She couldn't look at him because she knew she was at fault. She only arrested an innocent person and worst...She even beat him up!

Senior Officer Cua got up from his seat violently, " What?! You don't know him?!" he blurted out in disbelief.

Jasmine really doesn't have any idea who that man was!

All she thought earlier was, he was the thief who made her exhausted from chasing him, but it turns out that she was wrong!

"Which country are you from that you do not even know, Mr. Colton Olivares?!"

Jasmine's ear rang when she heard the name, Colton Olivares.

This time, she slowly lifted her head and looked at Senior Officer Cua and spoke," W-Who?" she asked with her knitted brows,

"Colton Olivares," Senior Officer Cua repeated, " Mr. Olivares is an influential man, the heir of Wellness Internationals Pharma," he said.

'Colton Olivares?'

'Wellness International Pharma?'

Jasmine repeated inside, 'Who said she didn't know him?'

Of course, she does, but not as to how senior officer Cua knew him. She knew him as a rude, selfish, arrogant, and hateful young man. How would she not know him when he had almost become her adoptive brother?

She can still remember his hurtful words saying, " You don't belong to this family, you're a freeloader from a slum who only wants my family's wealth!"

" What did you tell my father for him to take you in?"

"Did you seduce him?"

"No one wants you here, no one wants someone good for nothing like you in this house!"

"I would be grateful if you just leave this place and never showed yourself again!"

Jasmine was still in a state of mourning for her mother's death at that time, and the feeling of being unwanted made it hard for her. She was too young to understand what was going on and the only solution she thought was to leave that place.

She did not regret her decision of leaving the Olivares mansion because a childless couple, Dina and Ed Ocampo, took her in and they loved her as their own. Leaving the Olivares mansion was the best decision she made.

"You should talk to him and ask him to take back the complaint against you, otherwise you're doomed!" Jasmine snapped back to her senses when she heard her senior officer's word.

"What?" she blurts out with her knitted brows.

"Administrative case," Senior Officer Cua spoke, " He will file an administrative case against you for beating him up," he said.

"But---" Jasmine spoke to defend herself but Officer Cua was quick to cut her off.

"You know it wasn't right for us to hurt someone even if he is a criminal, not unless it was for self-defense," Senior Officer Cua said.

"You know that what you did was wrong, violence is not a solution to everything," he added.

Jasmine closed her eyes tightly as she lowered her head again in annoyance, ' Look what happen Jasmine?!'

'You should have not let your anger take over you!' Jasmine secretly scolded herself.

"You should talk to him and ask him to take back his complaint against you, officer Jones." senior officer Cua said. " You offended the wrong person," he continued, "Mr. Olivares has connections and he can trample you if he wants to."

"You better apologize to him if you want to continue in the service and catch the person behind your mother's death."

Senior Officer Cua's word made Jasmine fall into deep thoughts. She was worried.

She has a goal as to why she chose to be a police officer. It is to catch the person who killed her mother fifteen years ago and she can't do that if she gets dismissed in service!

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Wellness International Pharma's building.

Alexi's eyes went wide open as soon as he heard what his boss said, " Y-You found her?" he repeated as he looked at his boss sitting on his swivel chair. He can see the visible bruise on the right side of his face and he doesn't know how or where did he get it.

Colton was sitting on his swivel chair in front of his desk. He keeps moving his chair from left to right as if he was playing with it, " Yes," he said, " And I will make her agree to marry me no matter what," he added.

"But..." Alexis seemed hesitant, " Do you think, she will agree to marry you, sir?" he asked in hesitation.

Colton stopped playing with his swivel chair and he looked at Alexis with his blank expression.

"I...I mean...I am not trying to offend you, Mr. Olivares," Alexis spoke when he saw the dead look on his boss' eyes, " What I mean is that...What if she has a current boyfriend?"

"I don't think she would agree to marry you easily," Alexis reasoned. He was rattled seeing that look in Colton's eyes. He knew Colton was offended by what he said earlier and it is the last thing he would think to do!

To offend Colton!

"I don't care how many boyfriends she has," Colton spoke coldly, "All I want is for her to marry me so I could claim what is supposed to be mine," he said.

"I always get what I want and I don't take no for an answer," he continued, " She will not have a choice but to marry me," he added as a mysterious look flashed in his eyes. He already has a plan on how to make her agree to marry him, and he's sure that she can not refuse it!