Killer Nights

Chapter 19: A Hero Scolded

Inside her office, Dr. Wang motioned for Jiang Zhengkai to take a seat.  She pushed up her glasses, which had slid down her nose, and gave him a serious look.  “Officer Jiang, we’ve known each other for many years now.  I’ve always thought you to be an upstanding person. Yet I heard you spent the night with the patient last night?”

“Yes, I did,” Jiang Zhengkai replied, feeling a bit muddle-headed.  Was she saying that A-Jiao had been violated in some way in the restroom?

“I heard from the duty nurse that the two of you were in some kind of a scuffle last night?” Dr. Wang continued, still looking at him.  “That bruise on her neck; that was because of you, right?”

“Bruise?  I… I only…” Jiang Zhengkai didn’t know what to say.  He felt like a child who had been called to the principal’s office.

“I know you probably did it inadvertently,” Dr. Wang said, maintaining her stare.  “But the patient...