Luke seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while he slowly nodded: "Okay."
In fact, it doesn't matter what she finds out.
What he really needed to hide was never the detective himself.
Aurora breathed a sigh of relief, but he said solemnly: "I can understand your urgency, but I can't agree to your request."
Looking at the other person's expression, he continued, "Linsey and I are strangers who have met once at most. If there is a chance, I will talk to your daughter. But I can't guarantee when and the effect of the conversation."
Aurora: "Just remember this. Just think of it as a private request from your mother."
Luke said helplessly: "Aurora, from what you just said, I roughly know how popular Lindsay is with boys. Do you think if I actively go there, she will think I'm just going to talk to her?"
Aurora: "Then let's make friends."
As soon as she said this, she noticed that Luke had a strange expression on his face, and she subconsciously covered her mouth: "Just pretend I didn't say anything."
Luke didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Why does Aurora look like a lady at first glance, but seems like a child when you get to know her better
An old child, an old child. This person is not really “old” at all.
He sighed, "Aurora, I'm just a detective, not a teacher or a psychologist. I'm not an expert at counseling people, but I'm very skilled at shooting."
Aurora was puzzled: "Huh?"
Luke: "So, I have personally shot and killed many armed gangsters. This should be very different from what you imagine."
Aurora was stunned, not knowing how to respond.
Luke: "I will help if I have a chance, but please don't get your hopes up. Besides, Lindsay and I are just ordinary people who have met once. This case may be our only intersection, so don't investigate me anymore, okay?"
Aurora was stunned for a while, and suddenly asked suspiciously: "Are you afraid that I will investigate you?"
"Yes." Luke admitted frankly: "If I said that I wanted to make friends with Lindsay, so I asked someone to investigate everything about the Soderberg family, including any suspicious things in your past, would you accept it?"
Aurora opened her mouth, but no words came out.
If Luke and Lindsay really became "good friends", she would really find someone to investigate him thoroughly, even though she had just promised Luke that she would not continue to investigate him.
It's in a mother's nature to break her promise for her daughter; she can't help doing it.
But Luke investigating her family like this? She really couldn't stand it.
In this world, everyone has some privacy that they don’t want others to know.
Luke understood some of her thoughts, even if she didn't say them out loud. He just stood up and said, "Okay, that's it. I still have work to do, so I won't bother you anymore. Goodbye, Mrs. Soderberg."
He used this polite and distant name again.
Aurora knew what he meant.
He didn't want to have anything to do with his family, or to say, he didn't want to get into trouble with his family.
Aurora understood that Luke was clearly expressing his unwillingness to get too involved in this matter.
She stood up somewhat at a loss: "Um, wait, I didn't..."
At this point, she couldn't help but get stuck.
Luke's words were too direct, and she, who was used to speaking politely, was a little confused.
Lie? She felt that she couldn't lie now, or that lying wouldn't make the young man change his mind.
Luke nodded politely, "You're not in a good mood. You should get more rest. No need to send me off. I can go out by myself."
As he said this, he beckoned the servant who was standing far away to come over: "Please take me to the garage."
The servant looked at the mistress and found that she had no intention of objecting, so he immediately said respectfully: "Please follow me."
There are not many young men who can make a woman like Aurora look friendly. This one is definitely a very special one.
Driving out, Luke looked at the manor in the rearview mirror and shook his head slightly.
Every family has its own problems. Having money does not mean there are no problems.
Family, love, and friendship, these cannot be solved by money alone. In fact, having money can have a huge negative effect.
Thanks to his experiences in his previous life, Luke spent thirty years training himself into a Buddhist middle-aged man.
He doesn't attach much importance to things other than family ties.
Because family affection is cultivated bit by bit over decades, it is really difficult to ignore family affection unless you are an orphan.
Everything else is optional.
If you can't find a woman you like, then don't have love.
If you can't find friends who are compatible with you, there is no such thing as friendship.
Having money can make your life easy, and having a lot of money only makes your life easier.
Now he is worth billions but still does his own thing, which is because he saw through the meaning of money to him in his previous life.
Money is a means to make yourself live comfortably.
The amount of money can change the degree of freedom in life, but you cannot get lost in it and forget what you need.
He has money now, but he is only using it to seek greater security for his family, not to show off, squander, or flirt with girls.
Well, anyway, he can make a living just by relying on his looks now.
Money is just his tool, not his master.
Thinking about Aurora's request in his mind, he casually asked Xiao Wo to look up some information and called Connie at the same time.
The story of the Soderbergh family is a "family drama" that started before they came.
It is difficult for Elsa and Elizabeth to know gossip that is too far back in time, so they have to find old people like Connie.
After a few words, he hung up the phone.
Without looking up any information or even giving it much thought, Connie gave the start date of this "family drama" as last fall.
The information that Xiaowo found out has also come out. The earliest record of the dispute between Soderbergh's family and Monroe in the police station was in November last year.
These two times also match what Aurora just said.
Last fall, they got involved in Lindsay and Monroe's affairs, and after a while they couldn't stand it anymore and went to the police.
Over the past year, the two sides have been going to the police station more and more frequently, and the conflict has become increasingly serious.
Before this incident, the Soderbergh family did not have the nickname of "troublemakers" and were even NYPD's favorite major donors.
Well, it should be now.
It doesn't matter if the police officers and detectives below are a little upset. At most, a police inspector like Dustin will come out to clean up the mess.
Police officers get paid, and getting shot is expected, so being bullied is just child's play.
Soon, he drove to the cottage in New Jersey.
After getting off the car, he took a bunch of sundries and tools and changed the door lock himself without looking for a locksmith.
It has been snowing from time to time these days and it is Christmas Eve. The cost of calling a locksmith is a small problem. The key is that his attitude is bad and his speed is slow, and I have to wait here at the villa.
Instead of waiting for the locksmith, he might as well buy a new lock himself and replace it, which would only take five minutes.
After replacing the door locks and the electronic lock of the garage, he started checking the house again. He found minor problems such as damaged and missing door and window latches, leaking or clogged pipes, and water seepage in the attic, and he easily fixed them.