Seeing that there was only half a box of regular donuts of various flavors, and then looking at the special blueberry cheese flavor in her hand, Elsa hesitated and said, "Forget it, Dustin doesn't like donuts that much anyway, so just give him the half box."
I’d better keep the blueberry cheese flavor for myself.
…
In the corner of the hall, after the two sat down, Luke handed the files to Selina for screening as usual.
Elizabeth also came back and waved to Luke to indicate that she had something to say. Luke nodded and asked her to come over.
After she came over, she said a few words, and he realized that Samantha had already taken Ashley and Mike back to their home in Arizona, and Chris was also returning with his aunt.
Ginny, Bobby and Chris were discussing the mine matters, and he hadn't been paying attention to them recently. When he heard this, he just asked, "Is everything okay with your mother?"
Elizabeth hesitated, then nodded: "I did everything you said. But..."
Luke nodded: "That's fine. Just focus on your work and don't worry about your family. It will be a good thing if you are really rich."
Elizabeth smiled wryly and nodded. It was better to have money than to suffer for years to pay off college loans.
At this point, she lowered her voice and said, "The Esworth family has been in the news quite frequently in the past two days. You can pay more attention to them."
Luke nodded: "Yeah, got it."
Elizabeth had a lot to say, but she felt that it was inappropriate to say anything. In the end, she could only say thank you again and go back to work.
He turned around and looked at Selina across from him: "Have you chosen the case?"
Selina didn't even look up and continued to look through the files: "They are all similar. The weather is good these two days. If you want to go see beauties in bikinis, there is a case of a female corpse on the beach. The rest are nothing surprising."
Luke said "Oh" and became interested: "What kind of female corpse?"
Selina: "It should be what you think. Want to go and have a look?"
Luke stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the sun..."
The phone on the desk suddenly rang.
Luke picked up the phone casually: "Hello, okay, I'll be right there."
Putting down the phone and looking at Selina, he shrugged: "Dustin asked us to go to his office."
Selina: "I hope it won't delay our investigation."
Luke: "You want to go sunbathe? The sun is about to set, so there's nothing to sunbathe for."
Selina: "Can't we check out the location in advance so we don't have to delay next time we go?"
Luke gave a thumbs up, indicating that he had nothing to say.
Not long after, the two men came out of Dustin's office, each holding a promotion document.
Luke smiled and said, "Well, we can still rush to go through the formalities and replace our ID and badge today."
Selina sighed, "Well, a promotion and a pay raise are still good, and a little less sun is no big deal."
The two of them went together to handle various procedures.
Although Luke didn't care much about the credit, he handled so many cases, especially several very troublesome cases, which were handled very quickly and also brought large donations to the West District Police Station.
Then promotion becomes inevitable.
Now, he and Selina are both third-level detectives.
With Ginny's recommendation, the two of them enrolled in a local community college in Los Angeles and began their working college career.
This community college is still a formal school, at least it is a school verified by the U.S. Department of Education.
Except that the exam difficulty is lower and the exam scope is more detailed, this community college is similar to other universities.
Luke also looked up the university and enrolled them both so that they could graduate from the community college in two years.
Of course, the degree certificate from a two-year community college cannot be compared with those from a four-year regular university.
But on the one hand, after graduating from here, you can continue to apply to other universities.
Secondly, this degree certificate is recognized by the Los Angeles Police Department.
The crime rate in Los Angeles is rising, but the number of new recruits in the police department has been decreasing each year, and more and more young people do not want to be police officers.
As one of the top three sinner cities in the United States, Los Angeles is well-deserved of its reputation, so being a police officer in Los Angeles is indeed a highly dangerous job.
Many four-year college students do not want to do this kind of dangerous and hard labor work.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) have had no choice but to begin lowering their hiring requirements.
For example, the age changes from twenty-one to nineteen, and the diploma changes from a four-year university to a two-year diploma from a community college.
Luke estimated that in two years, the age might be reduced to seventeen and a half, because the police academy training plus pre-job training takes about half a year, which will just allow new recruits to reach the minimum age of eighteen to join the job.
Now let’s talk about Luke and the other’s annual salary, which was also directly raised to the level of veteran police officers, close to 90,000 before tax.
This time, Dustin gave Luke and the other two a one-step solution and converted all their previous performance into the treatment they deserved.
After a few months, his promotion seemed well deserved and no one dared to gossip about him.
This is not the achievement in Houston, nor the achievement in Shackford, nor the non-disclosure agreements. This is the achievement that was made without any water, right under everyone's noses.
Luke gladly accepted this.
A third-level detective. In the serious crime squad, including Elsa, there are only four first- and second-level sheriffs who are higher in rank than him, and there is also the leader Dustin.
Now, he can be considered a "veteran" detective.
There was no need for celebration. There were quite a few second-level detectives in the serious crime squad, aged 27 or 28. If he and Selena celebrated grandly, it would only cause jealousy.
He went home in the evening and made a promotion dinner for Selena, and at ten o'clock he got up and went out.
Selina pouted: "Going to see your secretary Ginny again?"
Luke smiled and said, "Of course, don't forget Chris's mine."
Selina was speechless. It was about gold mines and was definitely very important.
Luke went out and picked up Ginny at her villa, and the two of them went out.
Although Ginny didn't mind, Luke rarely came into her villa, let alone stayed overnight here. The two of them spent the night together in a hotel outside.
Ginny had tried him before.
Luke's answer was very realistic: to avoid putting Ginny in danger.
After all, meeting in a hotel and staying at home are two levels of relationships.
Luke handles more and more cases, and there are more and more dangerous people among them.
He now went to see Ginny in disguise to ensure that no one followed him.
Of course, on the nights after meeting Ginny, he would often go out to do some small side jobs to earn some experience points.
If he stayed in Ginny's villa, he would have to hide his entry and exit from the security, which was far less convenient than the hotel he had specially chosen.
In the hotel, the two of them snuggled in front of the French window, and Ginny told him about what she had just done.
Chris McCormick, the son of a mine owner in Prosperity, Arizona, had already reached an agreement with Ginny on a partnership.