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All Chapters of Murdered, but My Cop Mom Thought I Ran Away: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1

After the report came in, the police rushed to the scene of my death. The empty building was drafty on all sides, thick with the stench of rotting blood. The blood on the floor was still wet, with swarms of flies clinging to it.The moment Mom saw my body, she froze for a moment. Then, she turned around and ran outside, covering her mouth as she gagged uncontrollably.Officer Zane silently put on a mask and handed her a bottle of water.I watched as she steadied herself before stepping back into the foul-smelling room.The body in front of her had no head, seemingly brutally chopped off at the neck. The upper torso had been split open from the chest, exposing organs that were already decaying. The lower half was a mangled mess of flesh and blood, making it impossible to even determine the victim’s gender.As I watched Mom carefully examine the body, my soul felt a quiet ache. It had been so long since we were this close.Every time we met, it always ended with tension and argumen

Chapter 2

In Mom's eyes, even the victims in her cases seemed to matter more to her than I ever did.Her phone rang. When she looked at the screen, a faint warmth appeared on her face.I leaned in. It was Wendy. She was asking whether Mom would be coming home for dinner.Mom sent a voice message back. Her voice was softer than anything I had ever heard from her. “Sweetie, I’ve got a tricky case on my hands tonight. Don’t wait for me. Take care of yourself. Just tell me what you want to eat, and I’ll get it for you.”Officer Zane, who stood beside, let out a chuckle. “Moira, so you and Kara made up? I thought you were still holding a grudge against the girl. Moms and daughters are close at heart. Any conflict will soon be forgotten.”Mom pressed her red lips together and said in a low voice, “Wendy is my one and only daughter. Wesley, don’t bring up Kara again. She ran away from home this time. She’s been missing for five or six days. She didn’t even go to her father’s memorial.”I wanted t

Chapter 3

Officer Zane rubbed the bridge of his nose and said helplessly, “You should at least listen to Kara’s explanation. That kid’s always been quietly looking out for you behind your back.”Mom's lips twitched slightly. Her expression was slightly stiff. “Wesley, I know you mean well, but whatever bond I had with her as mother and daughter is long gone. She caused her father’s death, and she’s been bullying Wendy all these years. She’s just born bad.”I let out a self-mocking laugh.Back then, after my aunt divorced, she died in a car accident. Hence, my parents took in my cousin. One day, my cousin and I ran into Dad while he was on a mission. I knew I had to pretend not to recognize him in public.However, Wendy ignored everything I said and walked right up to him, smiling innocently yet chillingly. “Uncle Damian, are you catching bad guys?”Her words exposed him, and Dad was killed by the criminals that day.Wendy claimed it was me who had called out to him and exposed his undercov

Chapter 4

My cousin lowered her gaze, and tears the size of pearls rolled down her face. “Mom, Kara keeps saying I’m a demon.”A sharp pain pierced my chest. There she went again, putting on that same fake, delicate act again.However, Mom always fell for it. Every time she did, I was the one who ended up getting scolded.Wendy glanced at Mom's darkening expression, and a glint of satisfaction flickered in her eyes. She had long since replaced me, becoming the only daughter in Mom's heart.Even the blood bond between Mom and me could be easily twisted apart by her.One time, Wendy led me to my deranged admirer. She knew exactly what would happen to me, yet she did it anyway. Of course, she had nothing to fear. In Mom’s eyes, she was always an innocent, kind-hearted daughter.The moment Wendy came into our home, I did not just lose Dad. I lost Mom as well.Wendy bit her lower lip. Her face was deathly pale, pitiful enough to make anyone’s heart ache. “Mom, is it because I accidentally brok

Chapter 5

The palm of my hand was cut open, and blood would not stop flowing.Mom’s voice, thick with anger, rang in my ears. “Kara, I knew it. You’ve always been cruel at heart!”Mom still would not listen to a word I said. In her eyes, everything I did was wrong. It was just like how she was convinced I was constantly bullying Wendy, that poor, fragile girl.However, even if I wanted to explain everything, to talk to her properly about all the years of pain and injustice, there was no way I could do it anymore.I was already dead, killed by Wendy. Pain surged through me, and it felt as though my soul itself was being torn apart.No matter how much Mom scolded me, I would not be able to answer her. I would no longer be able to quietly leave her gifts to try to fix our broken relationship. All I could do now was lie in the cold morgue, hoping that she would recognize my body and seek justice for me.…Just as Mom was about to open the fridge to cook, Officer Zane’s call pulled her back to

Chapter 6

Yet, Mom had never once tried to understand what I was feeling.It always felt like we were just a step away from each other. One step away from making things right, and one step away from her realizing the victim was me.Officer Zane’s tone grew firmer. He was clearly dissatisfied with her attitude. “Moira, you fell seriously ill back then. Before you came back to work, Kara treated the entire task force to dinner just so they’d take care of you.”Mom knitted her brows together in suspicion. “Wesley, don’t joke around. You don’t need to make things up just to speak well of Kara.”“You keep saying she doesn’t care about you, but when you were hospitalized and unconscious last year, she was the one running herself to exhaustion, bringing you homemade meals every single day!” Officer Zane snapped in frustration.A trace of self-mockery flickered in my eyes. All these years, everyone could see how much I cared about Mom. However, to her, I was nothing but cold and heartless.Mom fin

Chapter 7

The medical examiner’s voice rang out clearly in the quiet boutique.Mom staggered, then her knees buckled and she fell to the ground. She covered her ears with both hands as tears fell one by one down her face. They dripped onto the cold ground and into my heart.I never knew she could cry for me too.When Wendy scraped her knee, she cried from heartbreak, and her eyes were full of pain. However, when she pushed me down the stairs and I suffered multiple fractures, she did not even spare me a glance.Now that I was dead, she was finally crying for me.Officer Zane helped her up. His voice was steady yet sorrowful. “Let the others handle the leads here. I’ll take you back to the bureau. We should go see Kara first…”However, Mom did not seem to hear him. Her pale fingers clutched Officer Zane's arm tightly as she murmured, “I’m not going. That body isn’t Kara’s! She must be hiding somewhere, waiting to surprise me on my birthday!”The summer air was stifling, yet Mom was freezin

Chapter 8

Mom took a deep breath, her brows tightly furrowed. After a long pause, she continued, “When I mentioned the killer might have psychological issues, there should’ve been visible signs in daily life. It's likely he has a small build and is short-tempered. We should focus our investigation on people the victim knew who fit this profile.”Clement Geis truly was a psychopath, a devil in human skin. After Wendy lured me away, he drugged me and took me to an abandoned construction site. There, he subjected me to inhuman torment. He kept asking why I refused his confession.After he finished unleashing his violent urges, Wendy even guided him to call Mom. He made me endure the searing agony of acid burning through my organs while I listened to Mom’s reprimands on the phone.Mom finished her analysis. Her lips pressed into a tight line as the meeting room fell into heavy silence. Every officer present wore expressions of sympathy.Mom lowered her head. A teardrop fell onto the table in fro

Chapter 9

[Mom and Wendy feel more like mother and daughter. No one even came to my parent-teacher conference.][Mrs. Summers is an idiot. I don’t want to talk to her anymore! She won’t let me call her 'Mom', and Wendy even accused me of bullying her.][Happy birthday, Mrs. Summers. She really liked the watch I bought her this year. It’s good I had Officer Zane give it to her instead.][Mrs. Summers got sick and lost so much weight. I want to hug her so badly, but I can only secretly send her nutritional meals. I’m like a rat in the gutter, watching over her happiness with my cousin.][Wendy tore my doll apart and even tried to convince me to marry a pervert who was pursuing me. I hate her, I hate her! Mom, when will you finally believe me?]The ink on the page blurred into messy stains under the wetness of tears.Mom’s teeth chattered uncontrollably. A dazed, almost disbelieving light flickered in her eyes. It was as though she could not accept that the adopted daughter she had once cheri

Chapter 10

Mom carefully took the dress, smoothing out every crease before gently placing it into a box inside the wardrobe.I stared at what lay inside the box. My eyes widened bit by bit.There was Dad's medal, as well as a leaf I had once picked for Mom as a child and a bracelet I had made for her with my own hands when I was young…Hot tears spilled from my eyes, burning as they fell. My heart felt as though it, too, was being seared.It felt as though Mom’s love for me had been locked away inside this very box for all these years.Yet Wendy still wanted to trample my name into the dust. She said nonchalantly, “Kara never remembers your birthday anyway. You shouldn’t be upset because of her.”Mom cut her off sharply, “Enough. I don’t want to hear her name again!”Wendy smiled. She raised a hand to cover it, seemingly trying to hide her smile. She tied up her hair, put on a mask, and headed for the door.“Wendy, you’re not staying for dinner?”Wendy waved off Mom’s question. “I’ll eat

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